Flat land stretches in every direction from Jimokuji Station, the Nobi Plain running unbroken to the horizon, rice fields and low-roofed houses alternating without drama. Ama City sits in this landscape almost without announcement — a place assembled from three former towns in 2010, still wearing its seams lightly.
Jimokuji Kannon anchors the older layer of the city. The temple traces its founding to the reign of Empress Suiko, and five of its holdings carry designation as important cultural properties. Nearby, Kayazu Shrine observes the Konomono Matsuri each year on the twenty-first of August — a festival dedicated to pickled vegetables, the only shrine of its kind in the country. These are not tourist circuits so much as the ongoing religious calendar of a working town.
The craft history runs quieter but no less persistent. Owari Shippō — the cloisonné enamelwork that developed here through the work of Kajō Tsunekichi — can be examined and practiced at the Ama City Shippō-yaki Art Village. The city also built its modern economy on brush manufacturing, once producing a dominant share of Japan's total output. Both industries still hold their ground, alongside the cultivation of Hōryō daikon in the surrounding fields. The Meitetsu Tsushima Line crosses the center of the city in roughly fifteen minutes from Nagoya, which means the weekday rhythm here is shaped as much by commuter schedules as by any older pattern — yet the fields remain, and the festivals keep their dates.
Where to stay
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What converges here
3 in this city. 89 within 25 km of the city hall.
- Ama City Miwa Historical Museum
- Shippō Art Village
- Ama City Jimokuji Historical Museum
- Inazawa City Oguiss Memorial Art Museum
- Aichi Asahi Site Museum
See the nearest 25
- Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum
- Daiichi Museum for art
- Hideyoshi & Kiyomasa Memorial Museum City of Nagoya
- Kanie-cho Folk Historical Material Museum
- Kiyosu City Nishibiwajima Tonya Memorial Museum
- Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology
- Noritake Garden
- Ichinomiya City Museum
- The Museum of Oriental official kiln ceramics, Nagoya
- Touken World Nagoya Marunouchi
- The Showa Era Lifestyle Museum
- Nagoya City Sewerage Science Museum
- Toyoshima Memorial Museum
- Electricity Museum, Nagoya
- Nagoya City Science Museum
- Money & Ukiyo-e Museum
- Aichi-Nagoya War Archives
- Yatomi City History and Folklore Museum
- Nagoya City Art Museum
- Dental Museum
- Nagoya Touken World
- International Design Centre Nagoya
- Morimura Museum of Yamato-e Art
- Japanese Christian Museum
- Aichi Archeology Center
Distances are straight-line from the municipal office. Each website was checked in September 2026. Some locations © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Jimokuji Temple South Gate
- Jimoku-ji
- Jimoku-ji Temple
- Jimokuji
- Kida
- Shippo