Odai Town

A trail of 7 waterfalls and 11 bridges.

Osugidani

Photo by Kitadake3193 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Festival

A Kawazoe Shrine festival with a paradechanting "Madaraaku banzai" through town.

The Gomikake Festival, a prayer-for-harvest rite, has been held on the Sunday closest to February 19 each year. Besides a parade through town, the shrine grounds host an archery rite that foretells the harvest and a seedling-pine rite (Kankomie). Each year one team from the Shinden and Tochihara neighborhood associations serves as host.

Sunday closest to Feb. 19
Town intangible cultural property
One team from each of 2 associations hosts

02 ／ Archaeological site

Finds from a Paleolithic siteare designated town cultural properties.

The Debari Site in Shimo-Shinden was designated a town historic site in 2004 (Heisei 16). In June 2024 (Reiwa 6) the town also designated 472 and 5,626 excavated items as tangible cultural properties (crafts). A Mie Prefecture history article says the site yielded, for a site of this period, remarkably many knife-shaped stone tools and other stone artifacts.

Town historic site (2004)
472 and 5,626 items (designated 2024)
Paleolithic site

03 ／ Natural monument

Every June and July, forest green tree frogegg masses are seen on trees around the pond.

A natural hollow of about 75 ares at about 400 m above sea level, near the Odai–Kihoku border. Places where egg-laying can be seen in numbers are rare even within the prefecture, and in a good year egg masses are said to number over 1,500 (Mie Prefecture). A prefectural natural monument.

About 75 ares
About 400 m above sea level
Prefectural natural monument (2003)

Living here

103 minutes from Nagoya by Limited Express Nanki.

about 9,000 people
2 hours to a city centre
Rural district town

The town has four JR Kisei Main Line stations: Misedani, Kawazoe, Tochihara and Takihara. The Limited Express Nanki stops at Misedani Station. From departure at Nagoya Station to departure at Misedani Station, the fastest daily service takes 103 minutes (station timetable, March 2026 revision).

People living here: 8,668people
Area: 362.86km²
Households: 3,639households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 8 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-01-10 に新設合併（宮川村）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —4 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.

Odai Town in Japan34.393°N 136.408°E

to NagoyaLtd. exp. Nanki103min

Travel times follow JR東海『各駅の時刻表』（railway.jr-central.co.jp/time-schedule/search/）の駅時刻表PDF（2026年3月改正〔URLの 202603〕）：名古屋駅の関西線[平休][下]（kansai_Nagoya_B_wh_d.pdf）と、三瀬谷駅の紀勢線[毎日][上下]（kisei_Misedani_E_e_ud.pdf）。特急南紀の名古屋『発』と三瀬谷『発』（駅時刻表は発車時刻のみ）を数えた。PDFを画像にして時刻を目で読んだ (checked 2026-10-13). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Odai Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

32.7km

Mie Prefecture: 大紀町, 松阪市, 紀北町, 多気町, 度会町
Nara Prefecture: 川上村, 上北山村

Odai Town isthis kind of town.

01Osugidani is a gorge in the uppermost reaches of the Miya River, and about 565 ha of national forest along both banks between two tributary confluences was designated a National Natural Monument in 1972. The town describes its mountain trail as a 16.19 km course with 7 waterfalls and 11 suspension bridges
02The Gomikake Festival of Kawazoe Shrine is a town intangible cultural property and the Debari Site is a town historic site, whose finds were designated town tangible cultural properties in 2024. The Ikenotani breeding pond of the forest green tree frog (Moriaogaeru) is a prefectural natural monument
03Old Funaki Bridge over the Miya River (between Sawara in Odai and Funaki in Taiki) is a nationally registered tangible cultural property, and its brick piers date from its completion in 1905. The Mise residence site of Kitabatake Tomonori and the Mise fort site are prefectural historic sites, and Nagoya is 103 minutes away by Limited Express Nanki

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Odai Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗