Yokkaichi City

The freight rails are lifted by cables.

Suehiro Bridge, port rail bridge

Photo by たぬちゃん (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Government office

The district office's core compoundwas built facing east.

The Kurube Kanga site is thought to be the office of Asake District, where many post-set buildings of mainly the Nara period have been found, and it was designated a National Historic Site in 2006. In Phase I, the government compound of a main hall, side halls and an eight-legged east gate, surrounded by a fence, was built facing east. The eight-legged gate has been reconstructed in the park.

National Historic Site, 2006
Phase I compound faced east
Eight-legged gate reconstructed

02 ／ Whale boats

The boats that chase the whale are notspotters' boats but copies of lords' barges.

In this event, four groups from the shrine's parish area each bring out one whale-boat float, chase a papier-mache whale, are driven back by its counterattack, and press in again to make the kill. The floats are not copies of the spotters' boats of real whaling but of the barges that shoguns and lords used in early modern times. The event was designated an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property in 1997.

Four whale-boat floats
Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 1997
Four parish groups

03 ／ Pear

A wild pear found by a primary-school teacherwas judged a new species by Makino Tomitaro.

The inunashi bears small white flowers in mid-April and fruit about 1 cm across in summer. The inunashi site at Higashi-Akuragawa keeps its original two trees. The ainashi at Nishi-Akuragawa bears fruit between a cultivated pear and the inunashi in size. Both sites were designated National Natural Monuments in 1922 and are kept up by local volunteer work.

National Natural Monument, 1922
Inunashi fruit about 1 cm across
Original two trees at Higashi-Akuragawa

Living here

27 minutes to Nagoya by limited express.

about 310,000 people
30 min to a city centre

The gateway is Kintetsu-Yokkaichi Station, 27 minutes from Kintetsu-Nagoya and 110 minutes from Osaka-Namba by Kintetsu limited express. The city looks to the Suzuka Mountains in the west and Ise Bay in the east, and took in Kusu Town of Mie District in February 2005. The city hall is about a 10-minute walk east along Chuo-dori from the station.

People living here: 305,424people
Area: 206.5km²
Households: 133,331households
Rent (average for rentals): 53,524yen
Healthcare: 13 hospitals ／ 256 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-02-07 に三重郡楠町を編入。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —51 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.

Yokkaichi City in Japan34.965°N 136.624°E

to NagoyaKintetsu limited express27min
to OsakaKintetsu limited express110min

Travel times follow 近畿日本鉄道（事業者公式）の『ダイヤ案内』（eki.kintetsu.co.jp/norikae/N2。乗換案内の検索。発時刻を5時台から23時台まで順にずらして全便を引いた）。名古屋線近鉄名古屋⇔近鉄四日市を平日（2026-10-14 水）・土休日（2026-10-18 日）の両方向、近鉄大阪難波→近鉄四日市を平日・土休日で数え、乗り換え0回の便だけを採った。補助に同じ公式の駅時刻表（近鉄四日市駅・名古屋線近鉄名古屋方面・平日。ページに『2026年3月14日現在』）。市公式『市への交通案内』（更新日 2023-06-13）も確かめた (checked 2026-10-13). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 8 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Yokkaichi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

18.9km

Mie Prefecture: 鈴鹿市, 菰野町, 川越町, 桑名市, 東員町, 朝日町, いなべ市
Shiga Prefecture: 甲賀市

Yokkaichi City isthis kind of town.

01Suehiro Bridge is a bascule rail bridge over the Chitose Canal at Yokkaichi Port; its central span is lifted by cables on a gate-shaped steel tower, and it is an Important Cultural Property
02The Kurube Kanga site, thought to be the office of Asake District, is a National Historic Site where the government compound and the granary area were found together, and a reconstructed eight-legged gate stands in the park
03The whale-boat event of Toride Shrine is an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, and the Inunashi site at Higashi-Akuragawa and the Ainashi site at Nishi-Akuragawa are National Natural Monuments

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yokkaichi City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗