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Ina City

Pupils found a keyhole-shaped tomb.

Roshoba Kofun, found by pupils

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Samurai house

A domain eye doctor's house,with a room for mixing medicine.

This was the home of the Majima family, eye doctors to the Takato domain in the Edo period. The city dates it to the Tenpo era (1830-43) and says a domain physician's house so little altered is rare even nationwide. Its layout matches that of a senior samurai, and it has a room for preparing medicine for examinations. It became a Nagano Prefecture Treasure in 2003.

Home of a domain eye doctor
Medicine room
Prefectural Treasure, 2003

02 ／ Stone Buddhas

They say he chanted sutras andburned incense as he carved.

Moriya Sadaji was a stonemason born in 1765 in a village of the Takato domain, now Osafuji in Takato. The city calls him a master of rare distinction who specialized in stone Buddhas and left 336 works in his 68 years. The city's plan says 44 works by Sadaji are among the stone Buddhas of Kenpuku-ji, a group designated by the city.

336 works
Specialized in stone Buddhas
Kenpuku-ji group, city-designated

03 ／ Rite

A map of a mountain-boundary rulingcomes out of a sealed box to air.

The rite checks Shibira Yamaezu, a map that depicts the ruling in an Edo-period dispute over mountain boundaries. The city's plan says it is held every July 15. Delegates from six hamlets gather, take the large map and a papier-mache model of the mountain out of a sealed wooden box, and air them. Both the rite and the map were designated by the city in 2004.

Delegates from six hamlets
Large map and papier-mache model
City-designated, 2004

Ina City from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot April 2016)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

From Shinjuku, 190 minutes by highway bus to Ina Bus Terminal.

about 70,000 people

The city's highway bus stop is Ina Bus Terminal, 190 minutes from Shinjuku by the fastest daily bus and 180 minutes from Nagoya. Both buses are taken by reservation. Inashi Station on the JR Iida Line is a two-minute walk from the terminal.

People living here: 66,125people
Area: 667.93km²
Households: 26,238households
Rent (average for rentals): 43,177yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 58 clinics

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

Population from 2010 onward (municipal boundary changed).2006-03-31 に新設合併（高遠町・長谷村）。2010年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —22 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.

Ina City in Japan35.828°N 137.954°E

to ShinjukuHighway bus190min
to NagoyaHighway bus180min

Travel times follow 京王バス『新宿～伊那飯田線』時刻表PDF（2025.12.24発行・2025年9月1日現在）と、名鉄バス『名古屋⇔駒ヶ根・伊那』時刻表ページ（2026-10-21 に読んだ） (checked 2026-10-21). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 13 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Territory of Ina City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

44.8km

Nagano Prefecture: Minamiminowa Village, Fujimi Town, Oshika Village, Miyada Village, Minowa Town, Komagane City, Chino City, Shiojiri City, Suwa City, Kiso Town
Yamanashi Prefecture: Minami-Alps City, Hokuto City
Shizuoka Prefecture: Shizuoka City

Ina City isthis kind of town.

01The city's plan says that in 2015 pupils of a local primary school found a keyhole-shaped tomb in the eight-mound Roshoba Kofun Group in Higashi-Haruchika, and that later university research showed it to be among the oldest in southern Shinshu
02The former Majima residence in Higashi-Takato, a Prefectural Treasure, was the home of an eye doctor to the Takato domain and has a medicine room; the city calls the stone-Buddha master Moriya Sadaji a master of rare distinction
03Six hamlets including Shibira air a map of a mountain-boundary ruling, a rite the city says is held every July 15; the Takato Castle site is a National Historic Site

See the town as it is now.

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

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