Sakahogi Town

A rock-backed hall revered by travelers.

Iwaya Kannon-do, Katsuyama

Photo by 先従隗始 (CC0)

01 ／ Sakahogi Shrine

A shrine's name in the 927 Engishiki registerbecame the village's name in 1897.

Sakahogi Shrine stands on the southern side of Kamoyama. The town says it is recorded as "Sakahafuri Shrine" in the Engishiki shrine register (927) and is said to be the origin of the place name. When seven villages merged on April 1, 1897 (Meiji 30), the new village was named Sakahogi after the shrine.

Engishiki shrine register, 927
Seven villages merged, April 1, 1897
Village named after the shrine

02 ／ Sarubami Castle site

From Sarubami to Katsuyama:a castle site and a renamed place, it is said.

The Sarubami Castle site is a Town-designated cultural property. In 1565 (Eiroku 8), the castle was taken in Oda Nobunaga's Mino campaign and Kawajiri Shigeyoshi became its lord; on that occasion, the place name is said to have been changed from Sarubami to Katsuyama. Only a little stonework remains today. An observation tower was built on the summit in December 1997, for the town's 100th anniversary.

Town-designated cultural property
1565 (Eiroku 8)
Observation tower, December 1997

03 ／ Torikumi ferry landing site

On a Nakasendo map, the Kiso River bankis marked as a ferry landing.

The Torikumi ferry landing site is a Town-designated cultural property. The Nakasendo Bunken Nobe-ezu, drawn in the Kansei era (1789-1801), marks the riverbank below a stone drainage bridge on the Nakasendo, near the Torikumi-Katsuyama border, with the words "ferry landing; Inuyama 2 ri, Nagoya 8 ri." It was the crossing to Kurisu on the opposite bank and was used until the end of the Meiji era.

Town-designated cultural property
Map of the Kansei era (1789-1801)
Used until the end of Meiji

Living here

A town 4.9 km across, with the Kiso River to the south.

about 8,000 people
Rural district town

A town in Kamo District, it borders Minokamo to the east and north and Seki and Kakamigahara to the west; to the south, across the Kiso River, lie Kani and Inuyama in Aichi Prefecture. Its area is 12.87 km², and it became a town on October 1, 1968. The gateway is Sakahogi Station on the JR Takayama Main Line, the only station in town.

People living here: 8,071people
Area: 12.87km²
Households: 3,200households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 5 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Sakahogi Town in Japan35.427°N 136.985°E

Territory of Sakahogi Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

4.3km

Gifu Prefecture: 美濃加茂市, 各務原市, 関市, 可児市
Aichi Prefecture: 犬山市

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

Sakahogi Town isthis kind of town.

01Iwaya Kannon-do stands at the foot of the castle hill in Katsuyama and is a Town-designated cultural property; the town says it was held in deep reverence by nearby villagers and by travelers on the Nakasendo, and that it was probably built in the early 19th century
02The name of Sakahogi Shrine appears in the Engishiki shrine register and became the village's name in the 1897 merger of seven villages. The Sarubami Castle site and the Torikumi ferry landing site are also Town-designated, and the ferry was used until the end of the Meiji era
03The Fukagaya rural stage is the worship hall of Junisha Shrine and a Prefectural Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property. The Kiso River is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty, and the town says the geographer Shiga Shigetaka named it the "Japan Rhine." The Saikoku Thirty-three Kannon at Anraku-ji Temple are also Town-designated

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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