Suzuka City

Said to flower and leaf all year round.

Shiroko Fudan Zakura

Photo by さかおり (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Craft technique

Tsukibori, kiribori, dogubori, shimabori.Stencil carving divides into four techniques.

Kiribori turns a half-round blade to cut round holes, and dogubori cuts a pattern in a single stab with a blade shaped like a triangle or cherry blossom. Tsukibori moves the blade point forward in short cuts, and shimabori cuts straight lines along a ruler (city pamphlet). A group holding these techniques, together with the thread reinforcement of the stencils (itoire), was certified in 1993.

Four carving techniques
Thread reinforcement (itoire)
Holder group certified 1993

02 ／ Relics

What Koichi brought back from Russia:how it passed to his wife can be confirmed.

Koichi, a steward, was one of the 17 men who sailed from Shiroko, and he died at Nemuro after getting home that far. His belongings were handed down to his wife, Ken. Thirteen items, including a comb, spoon, knife, pipe and shoes, and three copper coins survive. They were shown around the country as "memorial services" and designated a city historical material in 2020.

13 items and 3 copper coins
Shown around the country
City-designated in 2020

03 ／ Historic site

Not Kokufu-cho but Hirose-cho:a Nara-period provincial capital was found.

The provincial capital of Ise Province had been thought to lie in Kokufu-cho, from the place name, but excavations from 1992 showed it was in Hirose-cho, and it became a National Historic Site in 2002. The government compound, from the mid-Nara to the early Heian period, was enclosed by an earthen wall about 80 m east to west and 110 m north to south. The Ise Kokubunji Temple site in Kokubun-cho, designated in 1922, opened as a historical park in 2020.

National Historic Site, 2002
Compound about 80 m by 110 m
Mid-Nara to early Heian period

Living here

39 minutes by limited express from Kintetsu-Nagoya to Shiroko.

about 200,000 people

Shiroko Station, where Kintetsu limited expresses stop, is 39 minutes at the fastest from Kintetsu-Nagoya Station and 94 minutes from Osaka-Namba Station (timetable). The nearest stations to City Hall are Kintetsu's Suzukashi Station, about 5 minutes on foot, and Ise Railway's Suzuka Station, about 10 minutes on foot (city website).

People living here: 195,670people
Area: 194.46km²
Households: 82,158households
Rent (average for rentals): 50,147yen
Healthcare: 10 hospitals ／ 142 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —41 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.

Suzuka City in Japan34.882°N 136.584°E

to NagoyaKintetsu limited express39min
to OsakaKintetsu limited express94min

Travel times follow 近畿日本鉄道『ダイヤ案内（乗換案内）』（eki.kintetsu.co.jp/norikae/N2。ページに「2026年10月14日」の日付）。近鉄名古屋→白子と大阪難波→白子を、平日（2026-10-14 水）と土休日（2026-10-18 日）の出発5〜23時台で検索し、『乗り換え回数 0 回』の近鉄特急の所要時間を数えた（各検索は3本を返すので、名古屋は5・6・7・10・12・14・16〜23時台、大阪は5〜23時台を毎時検索）。 (checked 2026-10-14). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Suzuka City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

21.0km

Mie Prefecture: 亀山市, 四日市市, 津市
Shiga Prefecture: 甲賀市

Suzuka City isthis kind of town.

01Shiroko Fudan Zakura is a National Natural Monument, a cherry at Kannon-ji Temple in Jike. Its designation commentary says a tree whose flowers and leaves do not stop through the four seasons is rare, and the city's tourist guide says it bears scattered flowers on its twigs except in midsummer
02Ise Katagami is the stencil-carving craft of Shiroko and Jike, and in 1993 the Ise Katagami Technology Preservation Society was certified as a holder group of an Important Intangible Cultural Property. The Terao family house, a stencil wholesaler's home, is a city historic site and is open as the Ise Katagami Museum
03Shono-juku was the 45th post town on the Tokaido, and the former Kobayashi family house is open as the Shono-juku Museum. The Ishiyakushi milestone site and the Kanbe Castle site are prefectural historic sites, and Nagoya is 39 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.

Suzuka City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗