Fujisato Town

Fuji of Fujikoto, sato of scenic Subari.

Subari

Photo by Marho (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Fujikoto harvest dance

Two groups of young men, splitby an old bridge, dance apart.

The main settlement of Fujikoto is divided at the old stone bridge in front of the town hall. Along the Fujikoto River, the upstream group is called Kami and the group on the other side Shimo, and the two groups have performed the dance. Their dances and music differ. On the eve and the day of the shrine festival they parade through town in the manner of a lord's procession. It is said to trace back to the road entertainment of Lord Satake's retainers when he moved to Akita, in the seventh year of Keicho.

Prefectural intangible folk cultural property, 1964
Two groups: Kami and Shimo
Eve 7 Sept, festival day 8 Sept

02 ／ Great ginkgo

Two chopsticks Kobo Daishi stuck in the groundare said to have grown into one great ginkgo.

In a hamlet of Nakadori stands the Gongen Great Ginkgo, designated a prefectural natural monument of Akita in 1955. As winter nears, its leaves fall all at once with a roar, and farmers once read the fallen leaves to foretell the harvest, they say.

Prefectural natural monument, 1955
Said to have grown from two chopsticks
Fallen leaves read to foretell the harvest

03 ／ 400-year beech

The fallen "400-year Beech"was left where it lay.

The 400-year beech of the Dakedai Nature Observation and Education Forest was a giant, 4.85 m around and 26 m tall. Its name began when the rings of a giant that fell between 1975 and 1984 were estimated at 400 years, and this beech, of the same build, came to be called by it. The photo dates from 2011. It was found fallen in March 2022 and is kept on the spot.

4.85 m around, 26 m tall
Found fallen, March 2022
Kept on the spot

Living here

No station; shared taxis by reservation.

about 3,000 people
Rural district town

The town has no railway station. After bus routes were abolished or cut back, the main public transport since 1 October 2025 has been the on-demand shared taxi: Komawari-kun within the town and Komakyu toward Noshiro. Reservations are needed an hour before departure. 64.8% of the town's area is national forest.

People living here: 2,896people
Area: 282.13km²
Households: 1,126households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 3 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —1 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Fujisato Town in Japan40.278°N 140.262°E

Territory of Fujisato Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

22.9km

Akita Prefecture: 能代市, 北秋田市, 八峰町, 大館市
Aomori Prefecture: 西目屋村, 鰺ヶ沢町

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Fujisato Town isthis kind of town.

01The town was founded as Fujisato Village on 31 March 1955, joining the Fuji of Fujikoto Village to the sato of Subari, a scenic spot in Kasuge Village
02At the shrine festival, two groups, Kami and Shimo, perform the prefecturally designated Fujikoto harvest dance, and the Tanaka great ginkgo is a prefectural natural monument
03In the Dakedai Nature Observation and Education Forest, the 400-year beech that fell in 2022 is kept on the spot

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Fujisato Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗