Kuwana City

Uji Bridge torii, received each Sengu.

Ise's First Torii, ferry landing

Photo by Tawashi (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Festival

Three-wheeled floats strike up at midnighton Shingaku day, to the priest's drum.

Small carts that carried stones developed into three-wheeled floats. Each carries twelve lanterns arranged in a mountain shape at the top and gongs at the rear. On Shingaku day, the day before the main festival, the floats of every neighborhood start striking at midnight to the sound of the kagura drum beaten by the priest of Kasuga Shrine (Kuwana Sosha).

National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 2007
43 floats in all
Strikes up at midnight on Shingaku day

02 ／ Linked cranes

Linked cranes devised by a temple priestare folded from a single sheet of paper.

Cuts are made in one sheet of paper and several connected cranes are folded from it. Rokoan Gido, the head priest of Choen-ji Temple, devised these linked cranes in the Edo period, and works range from 2 up to 97 cranes joined together. In 1797 (Kansei 9) he set down the secret folding methods in Senbazuru Orikata (city tourism site).

2 to 97 cranes joined
Senbazuru Orikata, 1797
City Intangible Cultural Property

03 ／ Waterworks

A wealthy merchant laid a waterworks on his own,with public taps giving water free of charge.

In 1904 (Meiji 37), a reservoir about 13.4 m by 23.2 m and 3.6 m deep was built on a leveled slope of the hills in Higashikata. Its supply pipes ran about 14 km, and water was provided free to residents from 55 public taps and 24 fire hydrants (Mie Prefectural Board of Education).

Reservoir built 1904
About 14 km of supply pipes
Reservoir ruins are a Prefectural Historic Site

Living here

15 minutes from Nagoya by Kintetsu limited express.

about 140,000 people
30 min to a city centre

On the Kintetsu Nagoya Line, the limited express takes 15 minutes at the fastest from Kintetsu-Nagoya Station to Kuwana Station, and 118 minutes from Osaka-Namba Station (timetable, as of March 14, 2026). The usual limited express takes 16 minutes, and the city's relocation site also says about 16 minutes to Nagoya Station. Kuwana Station is served by the JR Kansai Main Line, the Kintetsu Nagoya Line and the Yoro Railway.

People living here: 138,613people
Area: 136.65km²
Households: 56,362households
Rent (average for rentals): 53,287yen
Healthcare: 8 hospitals ／ 99 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2004-12-06 に新設合併（多度町・長島町）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —25 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Kuwana City in Japan35.062°N 136.684°E

to NagoyaKintetsu limited express15min
to OsakaKintetsu limited express118min

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・大阪難波方面）の発車時刻表の各列車の停車駅表で、近鉄名古屋『発』→桑名『着』を数えた（平日・土休日とも、特急の全便。T5/T7 ページを機械で読んだ）。大阪は大阪難波駅（難波線・近鉄名古屋方面）の発車時刻表で、大阪難波『発』→桑名『着』を数えた。 (checked 2026-10-13). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 9 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Territory of Kuwana City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

20.1km

Mie Prefecture: 東員町, いなべ市, 木曽岬町, 朝日町, 四日市市, 川越町
Gifu Prefecture: 海津市
Aichi Prefecture: 愛西市, 弥富市

Kuwana City isthis kind of town.

01The First Torii of Ise Province at the Shichiri no Watashi ferry landing site marks the eastern gateway to Ise Province on the Tokaido, and was built in the mid-Edo period. At each Shikinen Sengu (Ise Jingu's periodic rebuilding), the Uji Bridge torii is passed down and the torii is rebuilt, and Shichiri no Watashi is a Prefectural Historic Site
02The Kuwana Ishidori Festival float event is a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property and the festival of Kuwana Sosha (Kasuga Shrine). The Kuwana linked cranes are a city Intangible Cultural Property, and the Moroto waterworks reservoir ruins are a Prefectural Historic Site
03Ise Daikagura, performed in the grounds of Masuda Shrine in Dayu, is a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, Rokkaen (the former Moroto family residence) is a National Important Cultural Property, clam fishing is carried on at Akasuka Fishing Port, and Nagoya is 15 minutes away by Kintetsu limited express

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kuwana City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗