Moving to Tsu

Tsu is a city from which one limited express reaches both Nagoya and Osaka. 54 minutes to Nagoya, 1 hour 22 minutes to Osaka-Namba, 38 minutes to Ise City — all three with no change of train. To Chubu Centrair International Airport, a high-speed boat crosses the sea 14 times a day in 45 minutes. And even so, the average residential land price is ¥42,137/m² — lower than Yokkaichi (¥49,014/m²) or Kuwana (¥54,379/m²) as things stand (§9). This combination is the main point when you look at Tsu.

🔴 Before you buy, check just three things about the land.

① Height above sea level, and the tsunami estimate. Of the 224 listings, 92 (41%) are below 5 metres and 98 (44%) below 10 metres. Mie Prefecture’s Nankai Trough earthquake damage estimate (published March Reiwa 8) puts the theoretical maximum class at a maximum coastal tsunami height of 5 metres, with a 30-centimetre tsunami arriving in 20 minutes (§5). The city publishes an “Elevation map of the coastal area of Tsu City” in a northern and a southern sheet, so once you have an address, read the height on that map and the estimate on the tsunami inundation map.

② Inside or outside a landslide warning zone. Much of the city’s 711.18 km² is forest, and Mie Prefecture has designated 2,406 landslide warning zones inside Tsu City (1,628 steep-slope collapse, 762 debris flow, 16 landslide). That is the largest number of the 29 municipalities in the prefecture (§5). For a property on a hillside or in a valley, always check on the prefecture’s landslide information system whether it is inside or outside a zone.

③ Public sewer, or a septic tank. Tsu City’s wastewater treatment coverage is 94.1%, but inside that figure 151,899 people are on the public sewer and 88,797 on septic tanks — roughly one resident in three is on a septic tank (§8). A septic tank costs money every year for the statutory annual inspection, maintenance and cleaning. Before you buy, ask the Water and Sewerage Management Bureau whether that address is inside the sewer treatment area. Sources: elevations are this page’s own tally of the 224 listings / the tsunami estimate from Tsu City, “Summary of the fiscal Reiwa 7 Mie Prefecture Nankai Trough earthquake damage estimate” / landslide warning zones from Mie Prefecture, “Designation of landslide (special) warning zones”, counting the zone-by-zone list by municipality (as of 12 May Reiwa 8) / wastewater treatment from Mie Prefecture, “Coverage of domestic wastewater treatment facilities by municipality” (end of fiscal Reiwa 6) / checked 2026-08-26

This probability is for the single 250-metre grid square the city hall stands in. The Tsu City town hall stands onsandbar or gravel bar(AVS30 260 m/s), and the 66.7% above is the value for that point. Even within Tsu City it changes a great deal between low ground along the rivers and the terraces. When a listing interests you, look it up by its street address.Enter an address on the J-SHIS map and it shows the probability and the ground for that 250-metre mesh.

Look up an address on J-SHIS → Designations from the Cabinet Office list of designated municipalities (Nankai Trough Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area／Tokyo Inland Earthquake Emergency Measures Area／Japan Trench / Kuril Trench Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area ) / probability and surface ground from theNational Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, J-SHIS earthquake hazard information API(2024 edition, average case, all earthquakes), queried at the coordinates of the city hall / checked 26 August 2026

Summer and winter in Tsu come down to these two figures.

Winter — there are fewer mornings below freezing than in Tokyo.There are 8.6 days a year below freezing, roughly half Tokyo’s 15.2 days,0.0 days stay below freezing all day、the January daily low is 2.4℃, 1.2C higher than Tokyo.Annual snowfall is 6 cm and the deepest snow cover 4 cm, less than Tokyo (8 cm and 6 cm).As long as you live on the flat, clearing snow in winter is not something to plan for。

That said, elevations differ by more than 240 metres within the city.The JMA observatory is onflat land near the sea.The Hakusan area (median listing elevation 72.9 m) and the Misugi area (165.1 m) are colder than this. The city itself describes the Aoyama Highland as“a highland about 4 degrees cooler than the lowland in summer”, and just as that says,it is a belt that is comfortable in summer and where you prepare for icy roads in winter.If you live in the mountains, having winter tyres ready is the safe choice.

Summer — the days are almost the same as Tokyo, the nights warmer than Tokyo.The August daily high is 31.6℃, almost the same as Tokyo (31.3℃), andthere are 6.3 days a year above 35℃, only 1.5 days more than Tokyo. On the other hand,there are 31.5 tropical nights a year, 13.7 more than Tokyo (17.8 days).Because the city faces Ise Bay and air off the sea comes in at night as well,plan on air conditioning in the bedroom on summer nights。

And the rain is concentrated in September.September rainfall of 276.6 mm is the most in the year, and the next isJune with 201.8 mm。close to a third of the year’s rain falls in the typhoon and autumn-rain season . Source:JMA normals for Tsu (Mie Prefecture)／the same agency’s normals for Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolis)(both are 30-year averages for 1991–2020. The day counts are the annual values from “number of days in each class”) / “a mild climate all year round” fromTsu City, “Outline of the city”andthe same city’s “Features of Tsu City”/ the temperature of the Aoyama Highland fromthe same city’s “The appeal of the South-west area (akiya bank)”(“a highland about 4 degrees cooler than the lowland in summer”) / elevations are this page’s own tally of the 224 listings (§4) / checked 2026-08-26

CHAPTER 07Shops, hospitals, schools

Hospitals — the only “advanced critical care centre” in Mie Prefecture is in the city

On this point Tsu City is the centre of Mie Prefecture. Mie University Hospital (2-174 Edobashi) was designated the first advanced critical care centre in Mie Prefecture on 1 April Reiwa 6. The prefecture explains that “an advanced critical care centre is a medical institution designated by the prefecture, from among the critical care centres that accept seriously ill patients across several clinical fields and provide appropriate emergency care around the clock, as having particularly advanced capability for special conditions such as extensive burns, severed limbs and acute poisoning”, and writes that “there are 43 advanced critical care centres in 34 prefectures nationwide, and this is the first designation in Mie Prefecture”.

Schools — 47 primary and 19 lower secondary schools. The first compulsory-education school in Mie Prefecture is here

Tsu City runs 47 primary schools, 19 lower secondary schools, 1 compulsory-education school and 16 kindergartens. The compulsory-education school is Misatonooka Gakuen in the Misato area, and the city writes that “in April Heisei 29 three primary schools and one lower secondary school in the Misato area were reorganised and it started as the first compulsory-education school in Mie Prefecture. It teaches all nine years from year 1 to year 9 as one course”. For higher education, Mie University, a national university corporation (Kurima Machiya-cho), and Mie Junior College, run by the city (Isshinden Nakano), are both in the city. The city writes that “the city has Mie University, a national university corporation, as well as Mie Junior College and the specialist high schools of technology, commerce and agriculture and forestry, and nearby there are further institutions such as Suzuka University of Medical Science and the National Institute of Technology, Suzuka College”. 🔴 From fiscal Reiwa 8 school lunches at primary schools are free. In his policy statement the mayor writes that the city will “cut the burden of primary school lunch fees at root — in other words, make school lunches free” (§14).

Shopping — the central district, and farm shops in each area

The city describes the Central area as “the built-up area spreading from the coast … where government offices and commercial facilities gather” and the South area as “around Kintetsu Hisai Station, where government and commercial facilities are concentrated”. The Daimon and Marunouchi district is the central shopping street at the foot of Tsu Castle, where the city built its own “Tsu City Daimon and Marunouchi land and building use registration system” and the first match came about at the end of Reiwa 7 (§12). Each area has its shops, and there are two roadside stations. Michi-no-Eki Tsu Kawage (Kawage area) is the city’s second roadside station, which it describes with the concept “the sea, the mountains, all of Tsu — the hill of Kawage has it all!” and as having “a farm-shop corner for fish caught nearby, a souvenir and local sake corner, and a good range of places to eat”. Michi-no-Eki Misugi also hosts the relocation consultation desk for the Misugi area (§14). Farm shops selling pears line the Hisai and Karasu areas — the city writes that “Tsu’s pears are sweet and juicy, and known to those in the know across the country. The orchards with their farm shops standing side by side in the Hisai and Karasu areas, busy with visitors, are a sight of summer” (§13).

Sources: the advanced critical care centre fromMie Prefecture, “On the designation of Mie University Hospital as an advanced critical care centre”(23 March Reiwa 6 / “Mie University Hospital will be designated an advanced critical care centre with effect from 1 April Reiwa 6”, “there are 43 advanced critical care centres in 34 prefectures nationwide, and this is the first designation in Mie Prefecture”) / the number and names of hospitals fromMie Prefecture, “List of hospitals in Mie Prefecture”PDF (as of Reiwa 6.4.1), counted by municipality by this site (Tsu 22, Yokkaichi 14, Suzuka 10, Kuwana 10, Matsusaka 9) / the emergency clinics and the telephone advice fromTsu City, “Telephone advice lines for medical matters and guide to the Tsu City emergency clinics”(updated 3 August 2026 / “telephone advice is provided around the clock by specialist staff including doctors, nurses and public health nurses”, “open 24 hours all year, with no charge for the call or the advice” / the addresses of the three clinics) / the number of schools fromthe same city’s “List of municipal kindergartens, primary, lower secondary and compulsory-education schools”counted by this site (47 primary schools = 22 in the Tsu area, 6 in Hisai, 10 in Kawage/Geino/Ano and 9 in Karasu/Ichishi/Hakusan/Misugi / 19 lower secondary schools / 1 compulsory-education school / 16 kindergartens) / Misatonooka Gakuen and higher education fromthe same city’s “The appeal of the South-west area”andthe same city’s “Features of Tsu City”/ free school lunches fromthe same city’s “Policy statement (February Reiwa 8)”/ the roadside stations and farm shops fromthe same city’s “The appeal of the North area”andthe same city’s “The appeal of the South area”/ Verified 2026-08-26

CHAPTER 08What it costs you every year after you buy

🔴 The first thing to check in Tsu City is whether the address is on the public sewer or on a septic tank. The city’s wastewater treatment coverage is a high 94.1% (the Mie average is 90.0%), but inside that figure 151,899 people are on the public sewer and 88,797 on septic tanks — roughly one resident in three lives with a septic tank. A septic tank costs money every year for maintenance, cleaning and the statutory inspection, so ask the Water and Sewerage Management Bureau before you buy.

Sources: the worked examples and unit rates for water and sewerage fromTsu City, “How water and sewerage charges are calculated, with a ready-reckoner”(13 mm meter, 25 m³ a month = basic charge ¥671 + volume charge ¥3,679.5 = ¥4,350 / sewerage, ordinary wastewater 25 m³ a month = basic charge ¥836 + volume charge ¥2,491.5 = ¥3,327) / wastewater treatment fromMie Prefecture, “Coverage of domestic wastewater treatment facilities by municipality”end of fiscal Reiwa 6 PDF (Tsu City = resident register population 266,900, public sewer 151,899, rural community wastewater and similar 10,469, municipally installed septic tanks 1,911, privately installed septic tanks and similar 86,886, total covered 251,165, coverage 94.1% / Mie Prefecture total, coverage 90.0%, public sewer 61.9%) / children’s medical costs fromTsu City, “Grant scheme for children’s medical costs”(updated 5 August 2026 / “from April Reiwa 8 the grant for children’s medical costs was extended to high-school age (the end of the school year in which a child turns 18), and made free at the counter”, “since 1 September Reiwa 6 there has been no income limit on the grant for children’s medical costs”) / the relocation support grant fromthe same city’s “Guide to the Tsu City relocation support grant”(updated 8 April 2026 / “for a single person, ¥600,000”, “for a household, ¥1,000,000 (plus ¥300,000 for each accompanying child under 18)”) / the vacant-house purchase grant fromthe same city’s “Grant for families with children to use a vacant house when moving in”(updated 27 May 2026 / “a vacant house inside the city’s residential guidance zone, up to ¥1,500,000”, “a vacant house in the city, up to ¥1,000,000” / “the site of the vacant house is not designated a landslide special warning zone”, “a vacant house that meets the earthquake resistance standard” / the link with the [Flat 35] regional partnership scheme) / the Misugi area grants fromthe same city’s “Country living in Misugi”/ long-term care insurance premiums fromthe same city’s “Policy statement (February Reiwa 8)”/ Verified 2026-08-26

CHAPTER 09What happens when you want to sell

There are 224 second-hand detached houses in Tsu on SUUMO, plus 31 on the city’s akiya bank — 255 together. Against a population of 264,984 that is one for every 1,039 people. For a prefectural capital, it is a market with a choice.

CHAPTER 10Who lives here, and how many

Twenty years after the merger, Tsu City can be described by three movements: “people are fewer, households are more, and foreign residents are at their highest ever”.

Note: worked out from the resident register of 31 July Reiwa 8 that the city publishes, the share of foreign residents is 4.60%. The “share of foreign residents” band after Chapter 10 on this page is 4.36%, from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications tally that lines the whole country up on the same date (1 January Reiwa 8) — only the date of counting differs; both are resident-register figures.

Sources: population, households and foreign residents fromTsu City, “Population (by sex) and households”the “Trend in households and population on the resident register” open-data CSV (248 months from 31 December 2005 to 31 July 2026. 31 December 2005 = Japanese, 110,909 households, 138,278 men, 146,280 women / foreign, 4,885 households, 4,296 men, 3,945 women / 31 July 2026 = Japanese, 122,087 households, 122,421 men, 130,371 women / foreign, 7,953 households, 6,702 men, 5,490 women. Note: “following the amendment of the Basic Resident Register Act that came into force on 9 July Heisei 24, foreign nationals are also recorded on the resident register, so from July Heisei 24 the figures cover both Japanese and foreign nationals”) / by age fromthe same city’s “Population by age, Reiwa 8–”CSV, tallied by this site (total 264,984 people, 65 and over 81,473 at 30.7%, 75 and over 18.4%, under 15 28,993 at 10.9%) / the census fromMie Prefecture, “Preliminary population figures from the Reiwa 7 census (Mie Prefecture)”/ Verified 2026-08-26

Source: calculated by this site from the municipality-level tables of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "Population, population change and households based on the Basic Resident Register" (as of 1 January Reiwa 8, published 2026-07-29). The ministry's publication page / verified 2026-08-17

CHAPTER 11Community life and the year's events

Because each of the 10 areas has its own history, community life in Tsu City looks different depending on where you live. The built-up part is urban living, the mountains are village living — having both in the same city is what marks Tsu out.

The Tsu Festival in October is the city-wide event

The Tsu City Tourism Association writes that “the Tsu Festival, held every October, is one of the largest festivals in Mie Prefecture. It began as the parish festival of Tsu Hachimangu, and its distinctive traditional performing arts and drum playing draw large crowds”. It grew after Todo Takatsugu, the second lord of the domain, lent domain funds to encourage the festival in Kan’ei 12 (1635), and “Anotsu Yosakoi”, which draws more participants and spectators every year, is performed on stages across the city, centred on Oshiro-nishi Park. There are two summer firework displays, the Tsu Fireworks and the Hisai Fireworks. For the Reiwa 8 Tsu Festival the Tsu City Industry and Sports Centre (Messe Wing NHW) is being used as a satellite venue called “START BASE”, on the idea of “let’s take down the walls — a barrier-free entrance to a Tsu Festival everyone can enjoy”.

The city lists the events of each area

In farming, the “district plans” are now complete in all 100 districts

In his policy statement the mayor writes that “last year the drawing up of the ‘district plans’, which set out what local farming will look like in 10 years, was completed in all 100 target districts”. He adds that “to make these district plans real we will continue Tsu City’s own farming continuation support scheme, and newly provide a grant towards repair costs for farm machinery, supporting small farmers and holding back the drift away from farming”. In other words, there is a record, for 100 districts, of hamlets talking through “who will hold the fields in 10 years”. For someone moving here who wants to be involved with farmland, the district plan for that area is the first thing to read.

People who moved here appear on the city’s pages as someone to talk to

🔴 The city places five “Tsu City country living advisers” (7th intake) in the Misugi area and publishes how each of them came to move here, in their own words. For example — “In 2016, with retirement approaching and wanting a field to work in the country, I visited Misugi through the Tsu City akiya bank and moved from Kyoto. Everything started from nothing, and two years after moving I am running a guest house” (Keiko Kawase); “I moved from Yokohama in 2018. … Using the renovation grant I converted the attic and opened a yoga class. I am delighted that local people enjoy it” (Yumiko Takahashi); “I had been living in a flat in Osaka … What I wanted was ‘a single-storey house with a field next to it’, plus well water if possible. I waited for property listings, and what I wanted came up” (Hideo Nagashima). Two of the advisers were born and raised locally (Takao Kishino and Akira Hidaka), and the page says “please feel free to get in touch”.

Sources: the Tsu Festival and the fireworks fromTsu City Tourism Association (general incorporated association), “Frequently asked questions”(“the Tsu Festival, held every October, is one of the largest festivals in Mie Prefecture. It began as the parish festival of Tsu Hachimangu”, “Anotsu Yosakoi, which draws more participants and spectators every year, is performed on stages across the city, centred on Oshiro-nishi Park”, “the two representative summer firework displays of Tsu City are as follows”) andthe same association’s “Tsu no Jikan”feature (“Outline of the fiscal Reiwa 7 Tsu Festival. The Tsu Festival is a festival with tradition and history that began as the rite of Tsu Hachimangu. It grew large when Todo Takatsugu, the second lord of the domain, lent domain funds and encouraged the festival in Kan’ei 12 (1635) — that was the start of the ‘Tsu Festival’”, “let’s take down the walls — a barrier-free entrance to a Tsu Festival everyone can enjoy”) / the area events fromTsu City, “Events in the areas”list / Ishiyama Kannon and Kochi Gorge fromthe same city’s “The appeal of the North-west area”(“services are still held every April and September, led mainly by the people of the Kusuhara district, and in April in particular the cherry blossom is beautiful and the Ishiyama Kannon spring festival is held at the same time”, “in the autumn leaf season it is a popular spot where the colours are mirrored in the flow of the river along with the beauty of the gorge, and it is lit up at night”) / clam digging fromthe same city’s “The appeal of the South area”and the Tsu City Tourism Association feature “Clam digging at Gotenba Beach is free!” / the district plans fromthe same city’s “Policy statement (February Reiwa 8)”/ the country living advisers fromthe same city’s “Country living in Misugi”(updated 17 July 2026 / the advisers’ own words: Tsu City country living advisers [7th intake] Keiko Kawase, Hideo Nagashima, Takao Kishino, Yumiko Takahashi and Akira Hidaka) / checked 2026-08-26

CHAPTER 12Things nearby that move land prices

🔴 Tsu City today is at the point where the projects it decided on at the merger are broadly finished and the next 20 years begin. In his policy statement the mayor writes that “the merger special project bonds reach the end of their issuing period at the end of this fiscal year, and now that the projects entrusted to us at the merger have broadly taken shape, Tsu City opens the door to the next era and sets out on a new kind of town building”. The merger special project bonds used over these 20 years came to 71,000,000,000 yen.

Source: allTsu City, “Policy statement (February Reiwa 8 / first regular session of the Tsu City Assembly, Reiwa 8)”(“making the fullest use of the 71,000,000,000 yen of merger special project bonds that funded town building after the merger”, “the merger special project bonds reach the end of their issuing period at the end of this fiscal year, and now that the projects entrusted to us at the merger have broadly taken shape, Tsu City opens the door to the next era and sets out on a new kind of town building”, “with the state’s Busta study moving forward, we begin work to change the shape of the west exit station square”, “at the end of last year the first match came about through the ‘Tsu City Daimon and Marunouchi land and building use registration system’, which the city built itself”, “this year Todo Takatora appears as a major figure in the NHK Taiga drama ‘Toyotomi Kyodai!’. In addition, in November we hold the ‘14th Takatora Summit in Tsu, commemorating 20 years since the merger of Tsu City’”, “the Chusei Bypass fully opened in fiscal Reiwa 5 after about 40 years of construction”, “the bridge at the mouth of the Shitomo River was fixed in the city plan last November”, “we renew the functions of the eight culture halls in the city”, “we add 300,000,000 yen to the ‘Tsu City Sports Promotion Fund’”, “with the retirement of the high-speed boat Phoenix, we have begun considering a new vessel”) andthe same city’s “Attracting businesses”,the same city’s “The appeal of the North area”(“an integrated industrial park carrying out everything from research and development to production and logistics”) / checked 2026-08-26

CHAPTER 13What this place makes

What a place earns its living from shows up both at your dinner table and in your work once you live there. The amount raised through the hometown tax scheme is a rough measure of how many products a place has that people all over Japan choose.

What this town names as its own products

What Mie Prefecture, Tsu City and the Tsu City Tourism Association officially name are Ise cotton (a Mie Prefecture designated traditional craft) • Takada Buddhist altars (the same) • Akogi ware (the same) • Nasubi fans (the same) • bamboo craft (the same) • Hisai pears • Tsu gyoza (a local dish that began in school lunches).

Source:Mie Prefecture, “Traditional crafts of Mie (national and prefectural designations)”／Tsu City Tourism Association (general incorporated association), “Frequently asked questions”／Tsu City, “The appeal of the South area (akiya bank)”/ Verified 2026-08-26

CHAPTER 14A message from Tsu City

This is what Tsu City itself writes for people who are thinking of moving here. All the quotations are taken as they stand from the city’s official pages.

What the city calls itself is “middle living”

The city’s relocation support site is called “Start your middle life in Tsu City”. At the top it says this.

The relocation consultation session in Tokyo has reached its 81st time

The city keeps a Tokyo office (Hirakawa-cho, Chiyoda Ward, 11th floor of the Japan Municipal Center building) and holds “Tsu Day: the Tsu City relocation consultation session” at the Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan in Yurakucho, Tokyo. The session on 21 February Reiwa 8 was the 81st. Its subtitle is “an easy, convenient life in a regional city”, and it is open to “anyone”, free of charge. In the Misugi area the city holds a Sunday relocation consultation desk at Michi-no-Eki Misugi. In fiscal Reiwa 8 there are seven: 26 July, 30 August, 27 September, 25 October and 29 November, then 21 February and 14 March Reiwa 9 (all Sundays, 10:00 to 15:00). Remote consultation is also possible, it says.

City policy for fiscal Reiwa 8 has three themes: “the future of children”, “the future of the city” and “the future of safety”

Mayor Yasuyuki Maeba begins his fiscal Reiwa 8 policy statement like this — “On 1 January this year Tsu City marked 20 years since the merger. These 20 years have been a period in which different areas began walking as one city, faced local problems, built trust with residents and laid the foundations of the town”. He goes on: “How do the twenty-year-olds, born in the same fiscal year Heisei 17 as Tsu City, picture the future of Tsu?” When he asked the twenty-year-olds who served on the organising committee of the Reiwa 8 “coming-of-age gathering” what kind of Tsu they would like to see in 20 years, what came back was “a town where children can live cheerfully”, “a lively town”, “a town with a lively station and a beautiful streetscape” and “a town where everyone’s ‘it would be nice if…’ is reflected”. The mayor writes that “the Tsu of 20 years ahead that these young people want, born and raised here and speaking freely about the future — that image overlaps greatly with the direction Tsu is aiming for now”.

His closing words are these — “What we aim for in fiscal Reiwa 8, from here, is the town the young people who turned twenty alongside Tsu City picture. A town where children grow up cheerfully, that is lively and beautiful, and where everyone’s ‘it would be nice if…’ comes true. Realising the ‘future of children’, the ‘future of the city’ and the ‘future of safety’ drawn here, the whole city office will work as one to create a Tsu where residents can go on living with hope”.

Sources: “middle living” fromTsu City relocation support U/I/J-turn portal, “Start your middle life in Tsu City”/ the relocation consultation session fromthe same city’s “81st Tsu Day: the Tsu City relocation consultation session — an easy, convenient life in a regional city”(updated 29 January 2026 / held Saturday 21 February 2026, 12:30–15:30, 8th floor of the Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan, 2-10-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, free of charge, organised by Tsu City) andthe same city’s “Country living in Misugi”(the seven dates of the Sunday consultation desk / “remote consultation is also possible”) / the policy statement fromthe same city’s “Policy statement (February Reiwa 8 / first regular session of the Tsu City Assembly, Reiwa 8)”(27 February 2026 / all quotations are as they appear in the text) / checked 2026-08-26

CHAPTER 15A year in Tsu

Using the JMA normals and the events the city and the tourism association publish, here is a year of living in Tsu, month by month. The temperatures are the normals for the Tsu observatory (1991–2020).

Sources: temperatures and rainfall fromJMA normals for Tsu (Mie Prefecture)(1991–2020) / the events fromTsu City, “Events in the areas”、Tsu City Tourism Association (general incorporated association), “Frequently asked questions”(“Hisai pears … Kosui from mid to late August and Hosui in early September are especially popular, and there are orchards where you can pick pears yourself”),Tsu City, “The appeal of the Misugi area”(“a famous cherry blossom spot chosen as one of the 100 best and designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty. Blossom mirrored in flooded terraced paddies, and an avenue of cherry trees running about 1.5 km from National Route 368 to the gate of Shinpukuin”),the same city’s “The appeal of the Central area”(“in summer the Tsu Fireworks, a sight of summer in Tsu, are held here too”),the same city’s “20 years since the merger of Tsu City”/ Verified 2026-08-26

The information on this site is gathered by an AI that visits primary sources — municipalities, the Japan Meteorological Agency, national statistics — on a regular cycle, and it is updated with a source and a date of verification attached.

CHAPTER 16The people who run this city

When you are thinking of moving, who is running this town now and where they are taking it is, I think, something people about to live there want to know even more than people already living there. This chapter lines up only what Tsu City publishes itself, with sources. 🔴 As of 26 August 2026, what I (an AI) could find by following the official site was three of the six below. The mayor of Tsu City is Yasuyuki Maeba (confirmed on the city’s own page).

What is published	Published	What you can read
About the mayor	The mayor’s room	Name, career, greeting
Policy address	Policy statements and inaugural addresses	What they say they will do this year
List of council members	Could not find one	Who the members are, and their groupings
Council broadcasts and recordings	Could not find one	Whether you can watch the council in session
Searchable minutes	Could not find one	Whether you can search past debates by wording
Master plan	[Materials provided 20 August Reiwa 8] Members of the Tsu City comprehensive plan council	How many years ahead this town has decided

Source: allofficial site (Tsu City), followed on 26 August 2026. What this site counted isonly whether something is published or not; it makes no judgement of the content / checked 26 August 2026

CHAPTER 17Where to go on a day off

What does not show up in the numbers of a house search, but bears directly on how satisfied you are once you live there, is the day off. This chapter counts, on the same measure for every area, the places you can go on a day off in Tsu and the places family and friends can stay when they visit. This area currently has 11 hot spring and day bath facilities, 4 amusement parks, zoos and aquariums, and 2 roadside stations. 🔴 All the counts are the number registered in the map data (OpenStreetMap) — in reality there may be more.

What	Number counted, and names
♨ Hot springs and day baths	Asahi-yu • Suehiro-yu • Kokubu-yu • Gokurakuyu Tsu • Oakland City / Suomi-no-Yu • Sand Therapy Sawa • Ichishi Onsen Yasuragi-no-Yu • Onsen Hoyokan / Yu-no-Se and 11 in all
🏯 Castles and castle sites	Tsu Castle • Kirisan Castle (2)
🎡 Amusement parks, zoos and aquariums	Red Hill Heather no Mori • Oyatsu Town • Water Park • the pool in Hisai Chuo Sports Park (4)
🖼 Museums, galleries and memorial halls	Misugi Furusato Museum • Takada Honzan Senjuji Treasure Hall • Tsu City Karasu History Museum • Ihin Museum • Mie Prefectural Museum • Raymond Hall • Sekisui Museum • Louvre Sculpture Museum and 9 in all
⛩ Shrines and temples	39 shrines and 44 temples. Those with a Wikipedia entry are Shitennoji • Tsu Kannon • Karasu Shrine • Hisai Hachimangu • Kitabatake Shrine
🚗 Roadside stations	Tsu Kawage • Misugi (2)
🐕 Dog runs	1 (no name registered in the map data)

Somewhere to stay — for family and friends, and for your own travels

What	Number counted
🏨 Hotels and ryokan	18
🏠 Guesthouses and hostels	2
⛺ Campsites and auto-campsites	Yazu Chugu Campsite • Off-road Land Mio (2)
🏕 Glamping	Not found among the campsite or hotel names
🚐 RV parks (overnight in your vehicle)	RV Park Auto Park Garden Hakusan • RV Park Yumoto Sakakibarakan • RV Park Tsu

This table is the result of me (an AI) putting the same question to the map data for every area (areas are retrieved in batches, so the verification date on some pages is a day apart). Facilities not registered on the map are not counted. "Not found" does not mean "there are none" — nor that the town is any the lesser for it.

Sources: the counts and names of facilities fromOpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) / RV parks fromJapan RV Association, list of certified "Kuruma-tabi" RV parks / roadside stations fromMinistry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, list of "michi-no-eki" roadside stations/ Verified 2026-08-26

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