
Obu
Japan
Obu: facts
At a glance
- Country: Japan
- Region: Aichi
- Administrative status: seat of a second-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA2)
- Population: approximately 93,123
- Coordinates: 35.0176° N, 136.9495° E
- Time zone: Asia/Tokyo (UTC+09:00)
- Currency: Yen (JPY)
- Distance to the capital, Tokyo: 260 km (161 mi), straight line
Getting there
- Chubu Centrair International Airport (NGO): 22 km (14 mi), straight line
- Nagoya Airport / JASDF Komaki Air Base (NKM): 27 km (17 mi), straight line
- Mount Fuji Shizuoka Airport (FSZ): 116 km (72 mi), straight line
Nearby
- Tokai: 3.7 km (2.3 mi)
- Kariya: 4.9 km (3.0 mi)
- Toyoake: 5.1 km (3.2 mi)
- Ogawa: 5.9 km (3.6 mi)
- Chiryu: 7.9 km (4.9 mi)
- Nearest place with over 100,000 inhabitants: Tokai, 3.7 km (2.3 mi)
Coming up in Obu
- 15 Nov 2026: 7-5-3 Day
- 23 Nov 2026: Labor Thanksgiving Day
- 25 Dec 2026: Christmas
- 31 Dec 2026: December 31 Bank Holiday
- 31 Dec 2026: Yasaka Shrine Okera Mairi
- 31 Dec 2026: Fushimi Inari Taisha Hatsumode
- 1 Jan 2027: New Year's Day
- 2 Jan 2027: January 2 Bank Holiday
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