Sayakaido used to serve as a bypass on the Tokaido route, a side road for getting to Atsuta, and Kuwana by sea. The road was used in old times by people coming to visit temples and shrines and processions of daimyo traveling to Edo under the sankin kotai policy, as well as by Philip Franz von Siebold, Tokugawa Iemochi, and the Emperor Meiji.

This temple is famous as the birthplace of the red lotus. Hirano Ryuten, temple head priest during the Tenpo era, introduced the red lotus (lotus root) from Omi province and cultivated it here.

The Kama-jizo, a cast-iron statue of the bodhisattva Ksitigarbha (Jizo in Japanese), was made about 350 years ago and enshrined at this temple. It has been designated as one of the prefecture’s cultural treasures and counted as one of the Six Jizo of Owari.

Th Okutsusha is the name of an ancient burial mound constructed in the mid-fourth century. From this mound, 25 m in diameter and 3.3 m high, late Yayoi period earthenware vessels, Haji pottery, and other valuable artifacts have been unearthed. The finds include three bronze mirrors (triangular-edged divine-beast mirrors) that have been designated prefectural cultural treasures.
is was the home of a littérateur from Nedaka-cho during the late Edo period. Masanari dedicated himself to the study of literature from an early age, getting into the study of Chinese and Japanese classics and penning works in numerous fields, including fiction, essays, and geographical descriptions. He’s particularly widely known for his work Owari Chimeiko, a commentary on the place-names of Owari.

The ancient Morokuwa boat is the oldest hagibune (enlarged dugout-style boat) ever unearthed in Japan. It was discovered during the Edo period, unearthed by villagers in the village of Morokuwa, the boat was enormous, measuring 20 meters in length and 2 meters in width. Today, only fragments of wood remain.