Kawaguchi City

Still pouring molten iron into molds.

Kawaguchi iron casting

Photo by Kawaguchi City (CC BY 4.0)

01 ／ Iron casting

The Tokyo Olympic cauldronwas cast by Kawaguchi iron founders.

The cauldron for the 1958 Asian Games had to be made in just three months. The iron founder who took the job, Suzuki Mannosuke (鈴木萬之助), collapsed and died after the mold broke during the pour, and his third son Bungo (文吾) finished it with help from fellow founders. The cauldron was lit again at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and a cauldron of the same design stands in Aokicho Park (青木町公園) in the city.

1958 Asian Games
Just three months to deliver
1964 Tokyo Olympics

02 ／ Garden trees

To Edo after the great fire,Angyo sent its trees.

Tree growing in Angyo (安行) is said to have been started by Yoshida Gonnojō (吉田権之丞) in the Jōō era. It spread after the Great Fire of Meireki in 1657, when trees and flowers were sent to the burned-out city of Edo. Wartime crop controls all but wiped it out, but postwar demand made "Angyo" a brand name. At the city's plant trading center, auctions are held every Tuesday.

Begun in the Jōō era
Great Fire of Meireki, 1657
Tree auctions every Tuesday

03 ／ Western-style house

The hall for receiving guestsis on the third floor.

For generations the Tanaka family brewed miso and traded timber. The Western-style house that the fourth Tokubei (徳兵衛) built to receive guests was completed in 1923, three storeys of brick. The entrance has a merchant's counter and a household shrine, and the grand hall for guests is on the third floor. It became an Important Cultural Property in 2018, and has been closed since January 2025 for seismic retrofitting.

Completed 1923
Three storeys of brick
Important Cultural Property, 2018

Living here

24 minutes from Tokyo Station, 20 from Ōmiya.

about 590,000 people
30 min to a city centre

The nearest station to City Hall is Kawaguchi Station, 11 minutes on foot from the east exit. The JR Keihin-Tohoku Line runs straight to Tokyo and Ōmiya stations with no change. The city also has Higashi-Kawaguchi Station on the JR Musashino Line and six stations on the Saitama Railway Line. It merged with Hatogaya in 2011 and became a core city in 2018.

People living here: 594,274people
Area: 61.95km²
Households: 267,141households
Rent (average for rentals): 71,158yen
Healthcare: 22 hospitals ／ 339 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —93 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.

Kawaguchi City in Japan35.808°N 139.724°E

to TokyoJR Keihin-Tohoku Line24min
to ŌmiyaJR Keihin-Tohoku Line20min

Travel times follow 市公式「川口市の位置」（2023-12-14 更新）の「川口市への交通アクセス」の図に載っている値 (checked 2026-09-24). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Kawaguchi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

11.9km

Saitama Prefecture: さいたま市, 草加市, 蕨市, 越谷市, 戸田市
Tokyo: 足立区, 北区

Kawaguchi City isthis kind of town.

01An iron founder and his son from Kawaguchi cast the cauldron later lit at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics
02Angyo, which sent trees to Edo after the Great Fire of Meireki, still holds tree auctions
03A brick mansion built in the Taishō era by a miso and timber merchant family is an Important Cultural Property

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kawaguchi City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗