Sekigahara Town

A keeper was likely named after closure.

Fuwa no Seki, keeper's home site

Photo by 先従隗始 (CC0)

01 ／ Ieyasu's final encampment

241 years after the battle, a lord builtan embankment and platform on shogunate orders.

Part of the nationally designated Historic Site "Sekigahara Battlefield", it lies in Jinbano Park, a 10-minute walk from Sekigahara Station. The Agency for Cultural Affairs notes an earthen embankment and a platform built in Tenpo 12 (1841) by the lord, the Takenaka clan, on the shogunate's orders. A marker post stands at the center of the platform.

National historic site, March 30, 1931
Embankment and platform, Tenpo 12 (1841)
10-minute walk from the station

02 ／ Nemonogatari no Sato

A groove so small it is easy to missonce marked the border of Mino and Omi.

Border posts stand beside the groove. The story goes that Shizuka Gozen, lodging on the Omi side, asked Yoshitsune's retainer, lodging on the Mino side, to take her along; travelers in both inns told it as they lay in bed, and so local people named the place, they say. The tourist association presents it as a legend.

Border between Gifu and Shiga prefectures
Once the Mino-Omi provincial border
Legend of Shizuka Gozen and Yoshitsune's retainer

03 ／ Imasu-juku toiyaba

One of Imasu-juku's seven toiyaba is datedto 1828 by its ridgepole tablet.

A toiyaba handled post-station business such as relaying porters and horses. The town says Imasu-juku had seven, and in February 2025 designated the former Yamazaki house, which a survey found from its ridgepole tablet to date from 1828 (Bunsei 11), a town tangible cultural property. The designation summary says it is said to be the only surviving toiyaba remains among the 16 Mino post towns.

Town tangible cultural property, February 17, 2025
Raised in Bunsei 11 (1828)
Seven toiyaba in Imasu-juku

Living here

At the prefecture's western edge, 47 minutes from Nagoya by the Tokaido Line.

about 7,000 people
60 min to a city centre
Rural district town

Sekigahara lies at the western edge of Gifu Prefecture, ringed by the Ibuki Mountains to the north and the Suzuka Mountains to the south, with about 80% of the town's land in forest. Its area is 49.28 km². The town office is a 5-minute walk from Sekigahara Station, and Nagoya is 47 minutes away on the Tokaido Line.

People living here: 6,610people
Area: 49.28km²
Households: 2,507households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 5 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Sekigahara Town in Japan35.365°N 136.467°E

to NagoyaJR Tōkaidō Main Line47min

Travel times follow JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』の区間時刻表（東海道本線米原〜浜松。JR東海の区間も載る）を2026-10-15（木）・10-17（土）・10-18（日）の日付で引き、3日とも同じ時刻で走る列車だけを毎日運転として数えた (checked 2026-10-15). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Sekigahara Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

12.0km

Gifu Prefecture: 大垣市, 垂井町, 揖斐川町
Shiga Prefecture: 米原市

Sekigahara Town isthis kind of town.

01Fuwa no Seki is a town- and prefecture-designated historic site, and the town calls the area the barrier keeper's residence site; it says the keeper is thought to have been appointed after the barrier was closed in Enryaku 8 (789). The nearby Kabutokake-ishi and Kutsunugi-ishi are stones said to have been used by Prince Oama
02Tokugawa Ieyasu's final encampment is part of the nationally designated Historic Site "Sekigahara Battlefield". Nemonogatari no Sato is a small groove that once marked the Mino-Omi border, and border posts now stand there
03The Imasu-juku toiyaba (former Yamazaki house) is a town tangible cultural property, and the town says Imasu-juku had seven toiyaba. The sudajii tree at the site of the Sekigahara-juku honjin is a prefectural and town natural monument, and the fireflies of the Fujiko River are a town natural monument

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Sekigahara Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗