is a

city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

located in

Aichi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectur ...

, Japan. The city is sometimes called Owarichinomiya to avoid confusion with other municipalities of the same name, including

Ichinomiya is a Japanese historical term referring to the Shinto shrines with the highest rank in a province. Shrines of lower rank were designated , , , and so forth. ''Encyclopedia of Shinto'' ''Ichi no miya'' retrieved 2013-5-14. The term gave rise t ...

(now part of the city of

Toyokawa is a city in the eastern part of Aichi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 183,930 in 72,949 households, and a population density of 1,141 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Toyokawa, famous for its Toyoka ...

Chiba Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to the ...

. , the city had an estimated population of 379,654 in 161,434 households, and a population density of 3,336 persons per km². The total area of the city was .

Geography

Ichinomiya is situated in western

, bordered by Gifu Prefecture to the west. The

Kiso River The is a river in the Chubu region of Japan roughly long, flowing through the prefectures of Nagano, Gifu, Aichi, and Mie before emptying into Ise Bay a short distance away from the city of Nagoya.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric ''et al.'' (2005) ...

and the Gojō River both flow through the city.

Climate

The city has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters (

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...

''Cfa''). The average annual temperature in Ichinomiya is 15.6 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1833 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 28.1 °C, and lowest in January, at around 4.2 °C.

Demographics

Per Japanese census data,Ichinomiya population statistics
/ref> the population of Ichinomiya has increased steadily over the past 70 years.

Neighboring municipalities

;

* Kōnan * Iwakura *

Inazawa is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 135,580 in 54,999 households, and a population density of . The total area of the city was . Geography Inazawa is located in the flatlands of far western Aic ...

Kitanagoya is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 86,068 in 36,904 households, and a population density of . The total area of the city is . Kitanagoya is a member of the World Health Organization’s Alliance for H ...

Kiyosu is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 69,687 in 29,477 households, and a population density of 4,017 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Kiyosu is located in far western Aichi P ...

;

Gifu Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,991,390 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture to the northwest, F ...

* Hashima *

Kakamigahara is a city located in southern Gifu Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 148,225, and a population density of 1700 persons per km2, in 59,736 households. The total area of the city was . Situated in the northern part o ...

* Kasamatsu * Ginan

City scape

File:Ichinomiya Skyline4.jpg,

Skyline A skyline is the outline or shape viewed near the horizon. It can be created by a city’s overall structure, or by human intervention in a rural setting, or in nature that is formed where the sky meets buildings or the land. City skylines ...

of Ichinomiya City File:UmegaePark05.jpg,

of Owari-Ichinomiya File:138 Tower Park from Jukan Tower.jpg, 138 Tower Park File:尾張一宮駅 - panoramio2021.jpg, Downtown of Ichinomiya

History

Origins

" literally means "the first shrine" of a

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

Ancient history

In case of

Owari Province was a province of Japan in the area that today forms the western half of Aichi Prefecture, including the modern city of Nagoya. The province was created in 646. Owari bordered on Mikawa, Mino, and Ise Provinces. Owari and Mino provinces were ...

, this was

Masumida Shrine is a Shinto shrine in the Masumida neighborhood of the city of Ichinomiya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is the ''ichinomiya'' of former Owari Province. The main festival of the shrine is held annually on April 3. Enshrined ''kami'' The ''kam ...

, which dates to the

Nara period The of the history of Japan covers the years from CE 710 to 794. Empress Genmei established the capital of Heijō-kyō (present-day Nara). Except for a five-year period (740–745), when the capital was briefly moved again, it remained the cap ...

and was located close to the

provincial capital A capital city or capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational entity, usually as its seat of the government. A capital is typically a city that physically encompasses the g ...

in what is now the city of

Middle Ages

Ichinomiya developed as a ''monzen-machi'' from the

Heian period The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kanmu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means "peace" in Japanese. ...

and was part of the holdings of

Owari Domain The was a feudal domain of Japan in the Edo period. Located in what is now the western part of Aichi Prefecture, it encompassed parts of Owari, Mino, and Shinano provinces. Its headquarters were at Nagoya Castle. At its peak, it was rated at ...

under the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

Tokugawa Shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate (, Japanese 徳川幕府 ''Tokugawa bakufu''), also known as the , was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"''Tokugawa-jidai''"in ''Japan Encyclopedia ...

Late modern period

Meiji period

In the early

Meiji period The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization ...

, with the establishment of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889, the town of Ichinomiya was created within Nakashima District Ichinomiya was raised to city status on September 1, 1921.

Contemporary history

Modern Ichinomiya

The city annexed the neighboring villages of Haguri and Nishinari in 1940, and with an additional eight surrounding municipalities (the villages of Chiaki, Tanyo, and Kitakata, and the towns of Asai, Yamato, Akiwara, Oku and a portion of Imaise) in 1955. On April 1, 2002, Ichinomiya was designated as a special city, with increased local autonomy. On April 1, 2005, the city was further expanded by absorbing the city of

Bisai was a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on January 1, 1955. On April 1, 2005, Bisai, along with the town of Kisogawa (from Haguri District), was merged into the expanded city of Ichinomiya. As of 2003, the city had ...

, and the town of

Kisogawa The is a river in the Chubu region of Japan roughly long, flowing through the prefectures of Nagano, Gifu, Aichi, and Mie before emptying into Ise Bay a short distance away from the city of Nagoya.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric ''et al.'' (2005). ...

(from Haguri District) which made it the fourth largest in

, after

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most pop ...

Toyota is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on . Toyota is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, producing about 10 ...

, and

Toyohashi is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 377,453 in 160,516 households and a population density of 1,400 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . By area, Toyohashi was Aichi Prefecture's second-la ...

. On April 1, 2021, Ichinomiya was designated as a

core city In urban planning, a core city, principal city metropolitan core, or central city, is the largest or most important city or cities of a metropolitan area. A core city is surrounded by smaller satellite cities, towns, and suburbs. A central city i ...

, with increased local autonomy.

Government

Mayor-council

Ichinomiya has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a

unicameral Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one. Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multic ...

city legislature of 38 members.

Prefectural Assembly

The city contributes five members to the

Aichi Prefectural Assembly The is the legislative assembly of Aichi Prefecture. Its 103 members are elected in 57 districts by single non-transferable vote (SNTV) to four-year terms. The assembly is responsible for enacting and amending prefectural ordinances, voting on ...

House of Representatives

In terms of national politics, the city is divided between Aichi District 9 and Aichi District 10 of the

lower house A lower house is one of two Debate chamber, chambers of a Bicameralism, bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has co ...

of the

Diet of Japan The is the national legislature of Japan. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives (, ''Shūgiin''), and an upper house, the House of Councillors (, '' Sangiin''). Both houses are directly elected under a paralle ...

Public

Police

Aichi Prefectural Police The is the prefectural police force responsible, under the control of the Aichi Prefectural Public Safety Commission, for policing Aichi Prefecture. History Its origins date back to 1871 ( Meiji 4), when its predecessor organisation, the A ...

**Ichinomiya police station

Firefighting

*Fire department **Ichinomiya fire department

Health care

*Hospital **Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital **Kisogawa Municipal Hospital

Post office

*Ichinomiya Post office *Bisai Post office

Library

*Ichinomiya City Library File:Ichinomiya Police Station.JPG, Ichinomiya Police Station File:Ichinomiya Fire Dept.JPG, Ichinomiya Fire Department File:Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital in the evening A.jpg, Ichinomiya Municipal Hospital File:Ichinomiya post office 21003.JPG, Ichinomiya Post Office File:Ichinomiya City central library ac (2).jpg, Ichinomiya City Library

External relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

International

;Friendship cities *

Treviso Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...

（

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, Italy） **since January 30, 2013

National

;Disaster Alliance city * Takaoka（

Toyama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Toyama Prefecture has a population of 1,044,588 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,247.61 km2 (1,640.01 sq mi). Toyama Prefecture borders Ishikawa Prefecture to the ...

Chūbu region The , Central region, or is a region in the middle of Honshu, Honshū, Japan, Japan's main island. In a wide, classical definition, it encompasses nine prefectures (''ken''): Aichi Prefecture, Aichi, Fukui Prefecture, Fukui, Gifu Prefecture ...

） **since October 31, 2007 * Seki（

Tōhoku region The , Northeast region, or consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. This traditional region consists of six prefectures (''ken''): Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi, and Yamagata. Tōhoku retains a ...

） **since , 2011

Economy

The Ichinomiya Chamber of Commerce & Industory ac

Primary sector of the economy

Traditionally noted for textiles, Ichinomiya is now a regional commercial center with a mixed economy of manufacturing and agriculture.

Agriculture

* Dry Daikon *

Allium fistulosum ''Allium fistulosum'', the Welsh onion, also commonly called bunching onion, long green onion, Japanese bunching onion, and spring onion, is a species of perennial plant, often considered to be a kind of scallion. The species is very similar ...

*Rice

Animal husbandry

Poultry farming Poultry farming is the form of animal husbandry which raises domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese to produce meat or eggs for food. Poultry – mostly chickens – are farmed in great numbers. More than 60 billion chicke ...

Secondary sector of the economy

Manufacturing

The Eisaku Noro Company, which produces colorful handcrafting and machine yarns for clothing, is also based here.

Tertiary sector of the economy

Commerce

Kanesue has its headquarters in Ichinomiya. It moved to its current headquarters in July 1976. ;Shopping center * APiTA Ichinomiya（TelassWalk Ichinomiya） * Æon mall Kisogawa * Kanesue *

Meitetsu Department Store is a department store chain in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is headquartered in Nagoya, Japan and owned by the Meitetsu rail company. The main store is located above Meitetsu Nagoya Station is the principal station of the Nagoya Ra ...

Ichinomiya File:一宮市千秋町 - panoramio.jpg, Chiaki

Paddy field A paddy field is a flooded field (agriculture), field of arable land used for growing Aquatic plant, semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro. It originates from the Neolithic rice-farming cultures of the Yangtze River basin in sout ...

File:Woven fabric Factory.jpg, Bisyu Woven fabric factory File:Ichinomiya Honmachi Shopping Street ac (5).jpg, Shopping streets File:株式会社カネスエ - panoramio.jpg, Kanesue File:Telasswalk.ichinomiya.jpg, TelassWalk Ichinomiya

Companies headquartered in Ichinomiya

Aichi small-elevator manufacturing corporation The Aichi small-elevator manufacturing corporation is a manufacturer of vertical transportation systems, mainly elevators and Dumbwaiters. Founded in Aichi, Japan in 1969. Aichi small-elevator manufacturing corporation makes a speciality of smal ...

Ichibanya is a Japanese food services company based in Ichinomiya, Aichi. CoCo ICHIBANYA chain ICHIBANYA Co., Ltd. owns the top curry rice restaurant chain in Japan, Curry House CoCo ICHIBANYA or usually just CoCo ICHIBAN or CoCo ICHI. The chain ow ...

* Kanesue *Konami Amusement *SOTOH *Japan Ecosystem

Education

University

Shubun University 270px, Shubun university is a private university Private universities and private colleges are institutions of higher education, not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. They may (and often do) receive from government ...

College

Aichi Kiwami College of Nursing is a private junior college in the city of Ichinomiya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered ...

* Ichinomiya Kenshin College

Primary and secondary education

*Ichinomiya has 42 public elementary schools and 19 public middle schools operated by the city government, and 10 public high schools operated by the Aichi Prefectural Board of Education. The city also has one private middle school and two private high schools. The prefecture also operates two special education schools for the handicapped.

Transportation

Ichinomiya city i-building exterior ac (1)

Railways

Conventional lines

;

Central Japan Railway Company is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai ( ja, JR東海, links=no). ''Tōkai'' is a reference to the geographical ...

Tōkaidō Line Tōkaidō may refer to: * Taiheiyō Belt (also Tōkaidō corridor), the megalopolis in Japan extending from Ibaraki Prefecture to Fukuoka Prefecture * Tokaido (company), a Japanese company that manufactures karate uniforms, belts, and related produ ...

： – – – ; Meitetsu logomark 2

Meitetsu , referred to as , is a private railway company operating around Aichi Prefecture and Gifu Prefecture of Japan. Some of the more famous trains operated by Meitetsu include the ''Panorama Car'' and the '' Panorama Car Super'', both of which off ...

Nagoya Main Line {{BS-map , title=Nagoya Main Line , title-bg=red , top= *Subway: Nagoya Municipal Subway *Lines are Meitetsu unless otherwise noted , collapse=yes , map= {{BS, STR, , , Tokaido Main Line} {{BS3, , STR, hSTR, , , Tokaido Shinkansen} {{BS5 ...

： – – – – – – – *

Bisai Line The is a 30.9 km Japanese railway line which connects Yatomi Station in Yatomi, Aichi with Tamanoi Station in Ichinomiya, Aichi. It is owned and operated by the private railway operator Nagoya Railroad , referred to as , is a private railwa ...

： – – – – – – – – –

Roads

Expressways

Meishin Expressway The , or Nagoya-Kōbe Expressway is a toll expressway in Japan. It runs from a junction with the Tōmei Expressway in Komaki, Aichi (outside Nagoya) west to Nishinomiya, Hyōgo (between Osaka and Kobe). It is the main road link between Osaka and ...

**：- Owari Ichinomiya PA – Ichinomiya IC – Ichinomita JCT – *

Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway The is a national expressway in the Chūbu region on the island of Honshū in Japan. It is managed by Central Nippon Expressway Company. The route is signed E41 under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's "2016 Proposal f ...

**：Ichinomiya JCT – Ichinomiya-Nishi IC – Hizai IC – Ichinomiya-Kisogawa IC – * Japanese Urban Expwy Sign 0016

Nagoya Expressway The is a network of urban expressways in Japan serving the greater Nagoya area. It is owned and managed by Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation. Overview The first section of the Nagoya Expressway network opened to traffic in 1979. As of 2008, ...

Route 16 (Nagoya Expressway) is an urban Expressways of Japan, expressway in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is a part of the Nagoya Expressway network and is owned and operated by Nagoya Expressway Public Corporation. Overview The route serves as an extension of Route 6 (Nagoy ...

Japan National Route

* *

Riverways

Water taxi

*Nishinakano tosen（

） File:Civic Complex Building in front of Owari-Ichinomiya Station ac (8).jpg, File:Meitetsu Department Store Ichinomiya Store 2020-10 ac.jpg, File:Kisogawa Kyoryo of Tōkaidō Main Line.jpg, Kisogawa Bridge File:Ichinomiya IC 20160422A.JPG, Ichinomiya IC File:Nishinakano tosen 6.jpg, Nishinakano tosen

Local attractions

;Castle *Ichinomiya Castle *Kuroda Castle *Ōno_Castle File:一宮城ー碑.JPG, Ichinomiya Castle File:Ruins of Kuroda Castle.jpg, Kuroda Castle File:Ōno Castle Site in Ichinomiya.jpg, Ōno Castle ;Buddhist temple *Houren-ji *Myōkō-ji *Sebe Saihō-ji File:Hourenji1.jpg, Houren-ji File:Hourenji3.jpg, Houren-ji（

Yamauchi Kazutoyo , also spelled Yamanouchi (1545/1546? – November 1, 1605). He was retainer of Oda Nobunaga and later Toyotomi Hideyoshi. His father Yamauchi Moritoyo, was a descendant of Fujiwara no Hidesato, a senior retainer of the Iwakura Oda clan (op ...

） File:Myoukouji2.jpg, Myōkō-ji File:Okucho Sebe Saihoji ac (2).jpg, Sebe Saihō-ji ;Shinto shrines *Azai shrine *Ifuribe shrine *Iwato shrine *

* Owari Ōmiwa Shrine File:Azai-jinja in Ichinomiya ac (2).jpg, Azai jinja File:Ifuribe shrine.jpg, Ifuribe jinja File:Iwato shrine.jpg, Iwato jinja File:Masumida Shrine Haiden.jpg, Masumida jinja File:Owari Oomiwa Shrine torii.jpeg, Owari Ōmiwa Shrine ;Archaeological sites *Mitsui Inariyama kofun *Nekojima Site File:Mitsui Inariyama kofun-02.jpg, Mitsui Inariyama kofun ;Park *138 Tower Park *Asano Park *Azaiyama Park *Umegae Park File:138 Tower Park (2013-02-08).jpg, 138 Towr Park File:Asano Park2.jpg, Asano Park File:Azaiyama Park ac (2).jpg, Azaiyama Park File:UmegaePark03.jpg, Umegae Park

Culture

Festivals

* Ichinomiya Tanabata Festival（ Double Seventh Festival） File:一宮七夕祭り (19399763454).jpg, Ichinomiya Tanabata Festival

Sports

File:Kōmyoji Park Stadium 01.jpg, Kōmyoji Park Stadium File:Hirashima Park Baseball Playing Grounds.jpg, Hirashima Park Baseball Playing Grounds File:Ichinomiya Municipal Gymnasium Entrance 20130817.jpeg, Ichinomiya Municipal Gymnasium（DIADORA Arena）

Notable people from Ichinomiya

* Ichinomiya Katsumi, owner of the city * Ichinomiya Eisuke, the heir of the city * Ichikawa Fusae, politician *

Masaaki Kanda is a Japanese politician who served as governor of Aichi Prefecture in 1999–2011. A graduate of Chuo University, he served as mayor of Ichinomiya is a Japanese historical term referring to the Shinto shrines with the highest rank in a prov ...

, politician * Shinichi Kondoh, retired baseball player * Tetsuma Esaki, politician *

Yukiko Okada was a Japanese singer and actress, active in the mid-1980s. After winning a nationwide television show at age 15 in 1983, she debuted as an Japanese idol, idol in 1984. Her death by suicide two years later led to a number of copycat suicides, a ...

, singer *

Haruka Tomatsu is a Japanese voice actress and singer, employed by Music Ray'n. She received the Rookie of the Year award at the 3rd Seiyu Awards and the Synergy Award at the 9th Seiyu Awards. Tomatsu voiced Asuna Yuuki in ''Sword Art Online'', Zero Two in ...

, voice actress *

Rie Kitahara is a Japanese singer and actress formerly associated with the Japanese idol girl group NGT48 and former member of AKB48 and SKE48. She debuted in 2008 in Team A and was later co-captain of Team K (2014). In March 2015, it was announced Kitahara wo ...

, actress, former idol * Hisa Ōta, stage actress *

Kazuo Funaki is a Japanese Enka singer. Kazuo also has a career as a stage actor, film actor, and TV actor. His real name is . Discography * : the singer's debut in 1963 * : 1966 * Filmography * Koukou San Nen Sei * TV actor * Taiga drama ** '' ...

, actor *

Jōji Matsuoka is a Japanese film director. After studying filmmaking in the College of Art at Nihon University, he won an award for his independent short '' Inaka no hōsoku'' at the Pia Film Festival in 1984. He directed his first commercial feature, ''Bataa ...

, movie director *

Masayuki Toyoshima is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is a former holder of the Ryūō, Meijin, Ōi, Kisei and Eiō titles. Toyoshima, together with Akira Inaba, Tetsurō Itodani and Akihiro Murata, is one of four Kansai-based young s ...

, shogi player * Tange Sakura, voice actress

References

External links

* {{Authority control Cities in Aichi Prefecture