Komaki

 

Komaki is located in the middle of the Nōbi Plain, west-central Aichi Prefecture, north of the Nagoya metropolis. The city skyline is dominated by Mount Komaki, which is topped with Komaki Castle.

The city has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters (Köppen climate classification Cfa). The average annual temperature in Komaki is 15.7 °C (60.3 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,769 mm (69.6 in) with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 28.1 °C (82.6 °F), and lowest in January, at around 4.2 °C (39.6 °F).^[2]

Per Japanese census data,^[3] the population of Komaki has increased rapidly over the past 60 years.

 Aichi Prefecture

• Inuyama
• Iwakura
• Kasugai
• Kitanagoya
• Kōnan
• Ōguchi
• Toyoyama

 

 

Archaeological remains from the Japanese Paleolithic through Yayoi period have been found in what is now Komaki, and burial tumuli from the Kofun period are also common.

During the Sengoku period, Oda Nobunaga used Komaki Castle as his headquarters from which he launched his invasion of Mino Province and later the area surrounding Mount Komaki was the site of the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute in 1584.

It was part of the holdings of Owari Domain during the Edo period, and prospered as a post town on the route connecting Nagoya with the Nakasendō highway.

During the Meiji period establishment of the modern municipalities system, the area was organized into villages under Higashikasugai District, Aichi. Komaki was proclaimed a town on July 16, 1906, through the merger of four villages.

Komaki was raised to city status on January 1, 1955, after merging with the village of Kitasato in Nishikasugai District, Aichi.

 

Komaki has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 25 members. The city contributes two members to the Aichi Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of Aichi 16th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.

Sister cities

•   Wyandotte (Michigan, United States, since March 22, 1967. Each year, Wyandotte and Komaki have an exchange student program, allowing students to be hosted by a family in the other city.

Friendship city

•   Anyang,Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, since August 1979^[4] (friendship city since 1986)

Friendship city

•   Yakumo, Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, since October 24, 1986^[5]

 

 

Komaki has a mixed economy, with agriculture (rice and horticulture), commence, and light manufacturing industries playing important roles.

Komaki's GDP per capita (Nominal) was ¥5,859,100 in 2014.^[6][7]

• Peach
• Rice

• Nagoya Cochin chicken

Sumitomo Riko (Previously known as Tokai Gomme), a global rubber and synthetic resin products manufacturing company, whose automotive anti-vibration components hold the largest global market share, has its headquarters in the city.^[8]

Due to its highway connections with the Nagoya metropolis, it is also becoming a bedroom community.

• COMO
• SATO FOODS INDUSTRIES
• santec
• CKD Corporation
• Sumitomo Riko
• Taihei Machinery Works
• Tsunoda Co
• HOUTOKU Co

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  COMO
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  SATO FOODS INDUSTRIES
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  CKD Corporation
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  Sumitomo Riko
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  Tsunoda
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  HOUTOKU Co

• Aichi Bunkyo University
• Nagoya Zokei University

Elementary and secondary education

Komaki has 16 public elementary schools and nine public junior high schools operated by the city government, and three public high schools operated by the Aichi Prefectural Board of Education. There is also one private high school. The prefecture also operates one special education school for the handicapped.

• The Colégio Dom Bosco, a Brazilian school was formerly located in Komaki.^[9]

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  Aichi Bunkyo University
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  Nagoya Zokei University

 

• Nagoya Airport (Komaki Airport)

 Meitetsu

• Komaki Line: - Komakiguchi - Komaki - Komakihara - Ajioka - Tagata-jinja-mae -

The Peachliner, formally the Tōkadai Shin-kōtsū Peach Liner (桃花台新交通ピーチライナー) was a people mover which operated from 1991 until September 30, 2006, when it became the first people-mover system in Japan to cease operations.^[10]

•   Chūō Expressway
•  Meishin Expressway (Asian Highway Network)
•   Tōmei Expressway (Asian Highway Network)
•   Route 11 (Nagoya Expressway)

•   National Route 41
•   National Route 155

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  Nagoya Airport(Komaki Airport)
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  Komaki Station
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  Komaki Junction
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  Komaki Interchange

 

Historic sites

• Iwaya Kofun
• Komaki shuku (Kishida house)
• Mount Komaki (Komaki Castle)
• Ryūon-ji temple (Mama Kannon)
• Shinooka Kiln ruins
• Tagata Jinja

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  Komaki Castle museum
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  Ryūon-ji
  (Mama Kannon)
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  Tagata Jinja
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  Komaki-shuku
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  Iwaya Kofun
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  Shinooka kiln ruins

Parks

• Menard Art Museum
• Komaki Municipal Baseball Stadium
• Park Arena Komaki
• Shimin Shiki no Mori

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  Menard Art Museum
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  Park Arena Komaki
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  Komaki Municipal Baseball Stadium
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  Shimin Shiki no Mori

• Hōnen Matsuri, and annual fertility festival held on March 15 at Tagata Shrine.^{[citation needed]}
• Bamboo Installation

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  Hōnen Matsuri at Tagata Shrine in Komaki
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  Bamboo Installation

• AK-69, hip-hop artist
• Kohei Hirate, professional race car driver
• Miku Ishida, singer, gravure artist
• Masanari Omura, professional footballer
• Minoru Tanaka, professional wrestler
• Asuka Teramoto, Olympic gymnast
• Jōtarō Watanabe, Imperial Japanese Army general

 

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Komaki, Aichi.

• Komaki City official website (in Japanese)