Toki City

Empty it, and you have a jar-like stone.

Mino no Tsuboishi

Photo by さかおり (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Otozuka Kofun

Potters used its stone chamber as a workshop,then it became a place of prayer to their deity.

A large square tumulus of the first half of the 7th century. The city explains that from the late 16th century through the 17th and 18th, potters from nearby kilns reused the stone chamber as a workshop and the like. When that use ended, it became a place of prayer to Toso-shin, the deity of potters, and to a mountain deity, and the rites continue to this day.

National Historic Site, designated December 14, 1938
Stone chamber 19.2 m long
Toso-shin stone shrine built in 1834

02 ／ Motoyashiki Kiln Site

Fourteen chambers climb in steps above ground,a design thought to come from Karatsu in Kyushu.

The Motoyashiki kiln is a renbo-shiki noborigama, a climbing kiln of linked chambers, about 24.7 m long and 2.2 m wide, with 14 firing chambers following the firebox and combustion chamber. The city explains that this structure is thought to have been introduced from Karatsu in Kyushu, and Oribe wares such as Kuro-Oribe, Ao-Oribe and Shino-Oribe were made here.

National Historic Site, designated December 11, 1967
About 24.7 m long, 2.2 m wide
14 firing chambers

03 ／ Tsumagi Castle samurai residence site

At the foot of the hill, the lord's mansionand samurai houses served as a jin'ya until 1658.

妻木城士屋敷門.JPG — Photo by ペ有家音 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Tsumagi Castle stands on a hill known as Shiroyama and is said to have been built in the 14th century by a member of the Toki clan. Enclosures, stone walls and earthworks remain over about 200 m square at the summit, and at the northern foot of the hill a mansion for the lord and houses for his retainers were built. The summit is the Tsumagi Castle site and the foot is the samurai residence site, both Prefectural Historic Sites.

Prefectural Historic Sites, designated 1956 and 1957
Enclosures, stone walls and earthworks over about 200 m square
A jin'ya, the lord's local base, until the Tsumagi line ended in 1658

Living here

From Nagoya, 40 minutes at best by JR Rapid.

about 60,000 people

On the JR Chuo Main Line, the rapid takes 40 minutes at the fastest from Nagoya Station to Tokishi Station (JR Central timetable; the city's relocation guide says 45 minutes). The city covers 116.16 km², about 70 percent of it hills, and the city writes that the central hills, bare in the early Showa period, regained their green through about 50 years of erosion-control work. The gateway is Tokishi Station, the only station in the city.

People living here: 55,348people
Area: 116.02km²
Households: 21,359households
Rent (average for rentals): 44,388yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 36 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —12 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Toki City in Japan35.352°N 137.183°E

to NagoyaJR Rapid40min

Travel times follow JR東海の『アクセス検索』（railway.jr-central.co.jp/timetable/nr_doc/search.html の検索）で、名古屋駅→土岐市駅・土岐市駅→名古屋駅を 2026-10-17（土）〜23（金）の7日間、5:00から1分刻みで調べた。乗換0回の経路だけを数え、毎日運転の最速は『中央本線快速』の名古屋9:23発→土岐市10:03着の40分（7日とも同じ列車）。向きを変えた土岐市9:32発→名古屋10:13着は41分（7日とも同じ列車）。JR東海の駅時刻表（土岐市駅・中央線・名古屋方面・平日／土曜・休日。2026年3月改正版のPDF）にも 9時32分発の『快速名古屋行』がある (checked 2026-10-15). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Toki City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

16.9km

Gifu Prefecture: 瑞浪市, 多治見市, 御嵩町, 可児市
Aichi Prefecture: 豊田市, 瀬戸市

Toki City isthis kind of town.

01Mino no Tsuboishi, a National Natural Monument in Tokiguchi, Toki, is a stone whose shell, cemented from pebbles and sand by silica and iron, is packed with gravel inside; the city explains that once the contents are taken out it becomes a hollow ball like a jar
02Otozuka Kofun and the Motoyashiki pottery kiln site are National Historic Sites: a tumulus whose stone chamber potters used as a workshop, and a climbing kiln with 14 firing chambers. Tsumagi Castle and the samurai residence site are Prefectural Historic Sites, where the mansion and houses served as a jin'ya until 1658
03The yabusame of Tsumagi Hachiman Shrine and the uchibayashi music of Sogi are city-designated intangible folk cultural properties, and the Hitotsubatago trees of Hakusan Shrine are a National Natural Monument; Nagoya is 40 minutes at best by JR Rapid

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Toki City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗