Wanouchi Town

A monument marks a lost channel's weir.

Oyabu weir ruins, Ogure River

Photo by Opqr (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Lantern

Night ferries set out aiming for the lightof a lamp stand on the embankment.

In the grounds of Suijin Shrine in Higashi-Oyabu stands a lamp stand carved "Daijingu, safety for the village, Ansei Heishin (3), ninth month, same day." It originally stood on the embankment and was moved to its present site when the Nagara River was improved. Villagers called it the Kurofune lamp stand, and have held the Otomyo festival on 17 September each year.

Inscribed Ansei 3 (1856), ninth month
Originally on the Higashi-Oyabu embankment
Otomyo festival, 17 September each year

02 ／ Umayokeba

A horse is said to have been lifted aside here:two 2 m squares by the road.

In the Edo period the Tara Road was only about four shaku wide. Two 2-meter-square plots on the south side of the road between Niremata Shinden and Nakago are Kanne's Umayokeba. By legend, the strong man Kanne lifted his horse by its four legs to get out of the way of a water magistrate's procession, and was granted horse-yielding places. The site is a town-designated historic site.

Road about four shaku wide
Two 2 m square plots
Town-designated historic site (1957)

03 ／ Fukuzuka Castle site

The castle site lost every trace in the three-river works;it seems to have stood in the middle of the river.

An old chronicle of Mino Province records that Fukuzuka Castle was built in Oei 21 (1414) and controlled river transport to southern Ise. The castle site lost every trace in the Kiso-Nagara-Ibi three-river separation works, and its location seems to have been around the middle of the Ibi River, on the line between a ferry landing and the end of an embankment. It is a town-designated historic site.

Built Oei 21 (1414), per the chronicle
Lost in the three-river separation works
Town-designated historic site (1957)

Living here

No station; 19 minutes by bus from Gifu-Hashima Station.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the town. The Meihankintetsu Bus Wanouchi-Hashima Line links Gifu-Hashima Station and the Wanouchi Bunka Kaikan (culture hall) stop in 19 minutes on every run. From Ogaki Station, the Wanouchi Line takes 35 minutes at the fastest on weekdays and 30 minutes on weekends and holidays.

People living here: 9,654people
Area: 22.33km²
Households: 3,439households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 5 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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.

Wanouchi Town in Japan35.285°N 136.637°E

to Gifu-HashimaLocal bus19min
to OgakiLocal bus35min

Travel times follow 事業者公式（名阪近鉄バス https://www.mkb.co.jp/ の路線名一覧 https://www.mkb.co.jp/rosenmei-3/）の時刻表PDF。輪之内羽島線＝岐阜羽島駅〜輪之内文化会館（wanouchihashima1_1/1_2＝平日の往路・復路、2_1/2_2＝土・日祝の往路・復路。どれも頭に『2026年10月1日改正』）。輪之内線＝大垣駅前〜輪之内文化会館（wanouchi1_1/1_2＝平日、2_1/2_2＝土日祝。どれも頭に『2022年10月1日改正』）。町公式『町へのアクセス』（https://town.wanouchi.gifu.jp/portal/town/government-office-information/post0025976/）の『名阪近鉄バス JR大垣駅前から輪之内文化会館(輪之内線)約35分』『岐阜羽島駅から輪之内文化会館(輪之内羽島線)約20分』と照らした (checked 2026-10-15). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities.

Territory of Wanouchi Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.7km

海津市, 養老町, 大垣市, 安八町, 羽島市

Wanouchi Town isthis kind of town.

01Oyabu Araizeki is the site of a stone overflow weir on the Ogure River, which once drew water from the Nagara River and flowed into the Ibi River, and is a Gifu Prefecture historic site. The weir completed in Horeki 5 (1755) broke in a flood the same year; the one completed in Horeki 8 (1758) controlled the water until a closing embankment was finished in 1899, and its completion made the river channel disappear. A 1997 survey confirmed that traces of the weir remain underground, and a monument stands there
02The Oyabu ferry lantern is a lamp stand dated the ninth month of Ansei 3 (1856) in the grounds of Suijin Shrine in Higashi-Oyabu, and the town board of education records that Nagara River ferries aimed for its light at night. Kanne's Umayokeba and the Fukuzuka Castle site were both designated town historic sites in 1957
03The town's name, Wanouchi, comes from the term for the area inside a ring of embankments around a village (a waju, or polder), which was read as "wa no uchi", inside the ring; the town was formed in 1954 by merging the three villages of Fukuzuka, Oyabu and Niki. Its area is 22.33 km², and there is no railway station in the town

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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