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24343 ／ あさひちょう

Mie Prefecture 三重郡

Asahi Town

Rooms ring a round hall with no pillars.

Asahi Elementary round school

Photo by Bakkai (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Naowa-haiji

In a 13.5 cm hole in the pagoda's foundation stone,a stone jar capped with a sancai bowl was placed.

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Photo by IshizakiA (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Naowa-haiji was a temple of the Hakuho period. From the relic hole in the pagoda's central foundation stone came a glass relic container, a stone outer container and a Tang sancai bowl set over it, all found together. These objects were designated an Important Cultural Property in 1989 and are kept at the Asahi Town History Museum. The temple site is a prefectural historic site.

  • Relic hole 13.5 cm deep
  • Important Cultural Property, 1989
  • Temple site: prefectural historic site

02 ／ Banko ware

Banko ware began when a Kuwana merchantbuilt a kiln at Obuke.

In the Genbun era (1736 to 1740), the wealthy Kuwana merchant Nunami Rozan built a kiln at Obuke. After the ware died out, Mori Yusetsu revived it in the third year of Tenpo at Nadani in Obuke. The Yusetsu Banko kiln site is a prefectural historic site; excavation found a multi-chambered climbing kiln about 17 m long and about 3.6 m wide, with the whole kiln body surviving.

  • Genbun era (1736 to 1740)
  • Revived in Tenpo 3 by Mori Yusetsu
  • Kiln site about 17 m long

03 ／ Tachibana Moribe

The scholarly world centred on Norinaga.Moribe, born in Obuke, criticised his theories.

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Photo by oterayasan (Public domain)

Tachibana Moribe was a scholar of kokugaku, born in Obuke in the first year of Tenmei (1781). While Motoori Norinaga's theories were the mainstream of the field, Moribe criticised them and developed his own, writing many works. He is counted as one of the four great kokugaku scholars of the Tenpo era, and his birthplace is a prefectural historic site.

  • Born in Tenmei 1 (1781)
  • One of the four great Tenpo-era kokugaku scholars
  • Birthplace: prefectural historic site

Living here

29 minutes from Kintetsu-Nagoya by semi-express.

  • about 10,000 people
  • 30 min to a city centre
  • Rural district town

Ise-Asahi Station on the Kintetsu Nagoya Line is as little as 29 minutes from Kintetsu-Nagoya by semi-express, with no change of trains (31 to 32 minutes in the daytime). The town also has Asahi Station on the JR Kansai Main Line. The town hall is an 8-minute walk from Ise-Asahi Station and a 10-minute walk from Asahi Station.

People living here
11,021people
19952020

+4.4% since 2015

6,900 → 11,021

Area
5.99km²

5.36km² of it habitable

2024

Households
4,112households

2.7 people per household

2020

Rent (average for rentals)
—
Healthcare
0 hospitals ／ 7 clinics

6.4 per 10,000 people

2023

Area5.99km²Habitable land5.36km² ／ 89%
Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103
Children waiting for childcare
—1 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy
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Average annual temperature
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These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Asahi Town in Japan35.034°N 136.664°E
TokyoAsahi Town
Ise-Asahi Station
伊勢朝日駅2008
  • to NagoyaKintetsu Nagoya Line semi-express29min

Travel times follow 近畿日本鉄道『駅の時刻表』（eki.kintetsu.co.jp。ページに「2026/3/14現在」）。近鉄名古屋駅（名古屋線）の発車時刻表（平日・土休日）の各列車の停車駅表（https://eki.kintetsu.co.jp/norikae/T5?USR=PC&slCode=413-1&d=1&dw=0 と dw=1、各列車は T7）で、近鉄名古屋『発』→伊勢朝日『着』を数えた。伊勢朝日駅の時刻表は slCode=413-15（近鉄名古屋方面 d=1・伊勢中川方面 d=2）。町公式に所要時間の載った交通案内は見つからなかった（町公式『役場へのアクセス』は画像のPDFで、町『朝日町の紹介』のPDFに『近鉄伊勢朝日駅から徒歩８分』『ＪＲ朝日駅から徒歩１０分』だけ） (checked 2026-10-13). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Asahi Town
Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

2.5km

川越町, 桑名市, 四日市市

Asahi Town isthis kind of town.

  1. 01Asahi Elementary School's round school building, built in 1962, has four floors; on floors one to three the centre is a pillarless round hall and the fourth floor is a single-room auditorium, and it became a nationally registered tangible cultural property in 2013. In the town's survey, five round elementary school buildings from the 1950s and 60s were confirmed as surviving and in use across Japan
  2. 02The relic container and other objects from the pagoda's foundation stone at Naowa-haiji are an Important Cultural Property, and Obuke has the Yusetsu Banko kiln site and Tachibana Moribe's birthplace, both prefectural historic sites
  3. 03The name Asahi was chosen in 1889, when four villages merged, to echo the tale that Emperor Tenmu paid homage to the morning sun near Naowa and Obuke. The town covers 5.99 km² and describes itself as the smallest in the prefecture

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Asahi Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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