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 Prefecture ...

, 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 ...

(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 Toyokaw ...

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 t ...

. , 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 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, nota ...

''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 *

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 ...

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 Pr ...

; Gifu Prefecture * Hashima * Kakamigahara * 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 skylin ...

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 state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions out ...

Ancient history

In case of Owari Province, this was Masumida Shrine, which dates to the Nara period and was located close to the provincial capital in what is now the city of Inazawa.

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 Japan ...

and was part of the holdings of Owari Domain 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 character ...

Tokugawa Shogunate.

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, and the town of Kisogawa (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 po ...

, Toyota, and Toyohashi. On April 1, 2021, Ichinomiya was designated as a core city, 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 multi ...

city legislature of 38 members.

Prefectural Assembly

The city contributes five members to the Aichi Prefectural Assembly.

House of Representatives

In terms of national politics, the city is divided between Aichi District 9 and Aichi District 10 of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

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 Ai ...

**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（ Veneto, Italy） **since January 30, 2013

National

;Disaster Alliance city * Takaoka（ Toyama Prefecture, Chūbu region） **since October 31, 2007 * Seki（ Gifu Prefecture, Tōhoku region） **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 *Rice

Animal husbandry

* Poultry farming

Secondary sector of the economy

Manufacturing

The

Eisaku Noro Company Eisaku Noro Company, Ltd. is a yarn manufacturer located in the Aichi Prefecture of Japan. The company produces yarns for handcrafting under the Noro brand name, as well as machine yarns for textile production using the Eisaku Noro label. The c ...

, 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 Ichinomiya File:一宮市千秋町 - panoramio.jpg, Chiaki Paddy field 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 * Ichibanya * Kanesue *Konami Amusement *SOTOH *Japan Ecosystem

Education

University

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College

* Aichi Kiwami College of Nursing * 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 * Tōkaidō Line： – – – ; Meitetsu logomark 2

Meitetsu * Nagoya Main Line： – – – – – – – * Bisai Line： – – – – – – – – –

Roads

Expressways

* Meishin Expressway **：- Owari Ichinomiya PA – Ichinomiya IC – Ichinomita JCT – * Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway **：Ichinomiya JCT – Ichinomiya-Nishi IC – Hizai IC – Ichinomiya-Kisogawa IC – * Japanese Urban Expwy Sign 0016

Nagoya Expressway ** Route 16 (Nagoya Expressway)

Japan National Route

* *

Riverways

Water taxi

*Nishinakano tosen（ Kiso River） 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 (o ...

） File:Myoukouji2.jpg, Myōkō-ji File:Okucho Sebe Saihoji ac (2).jpg, Sebe Saihō-ji ;Shinto shrines *Azai shrine *Ifuribe shrine *Iwato shrine * Masumida 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 was a Japanese feminist, politician and a leader of the women's suffrage movement. Ichikawa was a key supporter of women's suffrage in Japan, and her activism was partially responsible for the extension of the franchise to women in 1945. Early ...

, 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 provi ...

, politician * Shinichi Kondoh, retired baseball player * Tetsuma Esaki, politician * Yukiko Okada, singer * Haruka Tomatsu, voice actress * Rie Kitahara, actress, former idol * Hisa Ōta, stage actress * Kazuo Funaki, actor * Jōji Matsuoka, movie director * Masayuki Toyoshima, shogi player * Tange Sakura, voice actress

References

External links

* {{Authority control Cities in Aichi Prefecture