Arimatsu, Aichi
Arimatsu is a town in Aichi Prefecture Prefecture, Japan. It houses the Arimatsu Station of the Meitetsu-Nagoya Line, which is about 11 km southeast of downtown Nagoya. The town merged into Nagoya on 1 December 1964 and is now a part of Midori-ku, Nagoya.
The Battle of Okehazama in 1560 was located in an area of this town. Oda Nobunaga defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto and established himself as one of the front-running warlords in the Sengoku period.
It is a historical center of shibori, or traditional Japanese tie-dye, and has supported the industry since the seventeenth century, dating back to 1608.
