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Toyohashi is a city in eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on the old Tōkaidō between Mikawa Bay and the Pacific, famous for Yoshida Castle, its streetcar line and the tezutsu hand-held fireworks of its summer festivals. Its top sights are Yoshida Castle, Nonhoi Park, the Toyohashi Orthodox Church, Fumon-ji and the Imō Wetland.
Yoshida Castle was first built in 1505 and later enlarged by Ikeda Terumasa, and in the Edo period its town was the seat of Yoshida Domain and a post station at a Tōkaidō river crossing. The domain was renamed Toyohashi in 1869, the town became a city in 1906, and an air raid in June 1945 destroyed more than 60 percent of it.
Toyohashi covers 261.86 km² and had an estimated 377,453 people in 2019. Its Toyotetsu streetcar has been the only tram in the Tōkai region since 2005, and the city is known for chikuwa fish cakes and as Japan's top producer of quail eggs.
Yoshida Castle was the castle of Yoshida Domain in Toyohashi, Japan, first built in 1505 on a rise above the Toyo River and later enlarged by Ikeda Terumasa. Its stone walls and moats now lie in Toyohashi Park, a 21.6-hectare castle-site park opened in 1949 that hosts the city's festivals.
Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History opened on 1 June 1979 inside Toyohashi Park in Toyohashi, Japan. Reopened in March 2024 after renovation, it shows modern Nihonga and Western-style painting from Kuroda Seiki to Nakamura Masayoshi downstairs and the city's history upstairs.
Toyohashi City Public Hall is a reinforced-concrete hall completed in August 1931 in Toyohashi, Japan, designed by Nakamura Yoshihei in a Romanesque style crowned with Spanish-style domes. It survived the June 1945 air raid, briefly served as city hall, and still hosts ceremonies and lectures.
Toyohashi Orthodox Church is the Japanese Orthodox church in Toyohashi, Japan, whose wooden Cathedral of the Holy Apostle Matthew was built in 1913 and consecrated in 1915. Its iconostasis arrived in 1926, it became an Important Cultural Property in 2008, and a full restoration ended in 2024.
Mount Ishimaki is a 358 m peak in Toyohashi, Japan, whose summit of huge limestone boulders gives 360-degree views. Its limestone plant community is a National Natural Monument, the ancient Ishimaki Shrine stands on its slopes, and hiking trails of the Toyohashi Nature Trail lead to the top.
Imō Wetland is a marsh of about 5 hectares on gentle hill slopes in Toyohashi, Japan, nicknamed the mini Oze of the Tōkai region and a National Natural Monument since 2021. A wooden boardwalk loops past about 250 wetland plant species, including the rare Mikawa false hellebore and Tōkai sundew.
Fumon-ji is a Kōyasan Shingon temple in the hills of Toyohashi, Japan, said to have been founded by the monk Gyōki in 727 and known as Toyohashi's maple temple. Protected by Minamoto no Yoritomo, the Imagawa and the Tokugawa, it holds more cultural properties than any other temple in the city.
Tōkannon-ji is a Rinzai Zen temple in Komatsubara, Toyohashi, Japan, said to have been founded by Gyōki in 733 and moved inland after the 1707 tsunami. Its two-storey tahōtō pagoda, donated in 1528, and a gilt bronze Batō Kannon plaque of 1271 are Important Cultural Properties.
Nonhoi Park, officially the Toyohashi Zoo and Botanical Park, is a 39.6-hectare park opened in 1992 in Toyohashi, Japan, combining a zoo, botanical garden, natural history museum and amusement park. Its zoo keeps about 800 animals of 130 species, including a herd of six Asian elephants.
Toyohashi Museum of Natural History opened in 1988 inside Nonhoi Park in Toyohashi, Japan, and traces life from the Earth's birth to today. It displays 12 complete dinosaur skeletons, including a real Edmontosaurus bought from the Denver museum, and ten life-size dinosaur models stand outside.
Futagawa-juku Honjin Museum preserves the main inn of Futagawa-juku, the 33rd station of the Tōkaidō and the easternmost in Mikawa, in Toyohashi, Japan. The honjin was restored in 1988 with a museum beside it, and the old post town keeps its historic look for about 2 km along the road.
Yoshida Shrine is the shrine to Susanoo in Sekiya-chō, Toyohashi, Japan, long the guardian shrine of Yoshida Castle. Tezutsu hand-held bamboo fireworks are said to have begun here as an offering in 1560, a stone marks it as their birthplace, and its summer Gion festival still features them.
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