Toda City

A straight 2,400 m of water in the city.

Toda rowing course

Photo by Ibamoto (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Rowing

Built for Olympics that never came,used by the Games 24 years later.

The Toda Rowing Course (戸田ボートコース) was built for the 1940 Tokyo Olympics, which were lost to the war, and became the rowing venue of the 1964 Tokyo Games. At 2,400 m long and 90 m wide, it is the only man-made still-water rowing course in Japan. The cauldron from those Games still stands on its bank, and the Japanese team's eight from 1964 is on display in the City Hall lobby.

1964 Olympic venue
2,400 m long, 90 m wide
Japan's only man-made still-water course

02 ／ Strength stones

Stones once lifted in contests of strength,15 of them in a shrine's grounds.

Kamitoda Hikawa Shrine (上戸田氷川神社) has 15 chikaraishi (力石), stones used in contests of strength. They are carved with names such as Daibanjaku (大盤石), weights such as 26 kan (二十六貫目), and the names of the men who lifted them, names that also appear in strength-stone rankings from the Edo period to the Meiji era. There are 19 such stones confirmed in the city. They became a city cultural property in 2021.

15 in the shrine grounds
19 in the city
City cultural property, 2021

03 ／ Bridge

Of an iron bridge hailed as Japan's boldest,the gate pillars stand in a park.

In the Edo period, travellers on the Nakasendō crossed the Arakawa by the Toda Ferry (戸田の渡し), and 46 households lived at the ferry landing. The first bridge went up in 1875, and the third, in 1932, was an iron truss bridge 545 m long and 11 m wide. Two of its gate pillars were moved to Todabashi Shinsui Park (戸田橋親水公園), and the "Saitama-ken" (埼玉縣) nameplate still bears three dents thought to be bullet marks.

First bridge, 1875
Third bridge, 1932, 545 m
City cultural property, 2014

Living here

The youngest city in the prefecture, 31 years running.

about 140,000 people
30 min to a city centre

In the prefecture's population survey by district, the city's average age was 42.9 (as of 1 January 2026), the youngest of any municipality in Saitama for the 31st year in a row. The city has three stations on the JR Saikyo Line, Toda-Kōen, Toda and Kita-Toda, all opened in 1985, and City Hall is a 10-minute walk from Toda Station. The Arakawa forms its border with Tokyo.

People living here: 140,899people
Area: 18.19km²
Households: 64,319households
Rent (average for rentals): 73,793yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 94 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —33 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.

Toda City in Japan35.818°N 139.678°E

to IkebukuroJR Saikyo Line30min
to ShinjukuJR Saikyo Line30min
to ShibuyaJR Saikyo Line30min

Travel times follow 市公式「戸田市ってどんな街？？」（保育幼稚園課、2025-09-02 更新）の「JR埼京線で池袋・新宿・渋谷まで乗り換えなしで30分以内」。30分は上限の値 (checked 2026-09-24). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Toda City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

4.2km

Saitama Prefecture: さいたま市, 蕨市, 和光市, 川口市, 朝霞市
Tokyo: 板橋区, 北区

Toda City isthis kind of town.

01It has the rowing venue of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the only man-made still-water course in Japan
02Kamitoda Hikawa Shrine keeps 15 strength stones used in contests from the Edo period to the Meiji era
03The gate pillars of the third Toda Bridge, built after the days of the Toda Ferry, stand in a park

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Toda City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗