Yamagata City

A bare-wood hall rests on a stone base.

Hakusan Shrine hall, 1502 tablet

Photo by 運動会プロテインパワー (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Oga Castle Site

Stone walls and a gate of huge stoneshave been confirmed at the castle site.

The site is the remains of a mountain castle and castle town built by the Toki clan, military governors of Mino Province, and is a National Historic Site. Excavation at the spot traditionally called the Iwamon gate found a gate formed by a wall of huge stones, up to about 2.5 m wide and 2 m high, a row of standing stones and a stone wall on the slope side. Another excavation suggests a garden with a pond stood in the area traditionally called Daidokoro. Stone walls have been confirmed at about 40 places.

National Historic Site (designated 17 February 2026)
Stone walls at about 40 places (2020 survey)
Castle area about 860 m east-west, 470 m north-south

02 ／ Rengaki

Astringent persimmons are braidedwith skewers and straw, 30 to a string.

In Ijira, dried persimmons called rengaki are made from the astringent Ijira Omi persimmon, braided with skewers and straw into strings of 30, each about 1 m long, and hung from the eaves of farmhouses. After about a month in the sun and cold wind of early winter, they turn amber. Astringent persimmons were introduced in the Meiji 40s for persimmon tannin, and from the late Taisho period they were turned to dried-persimmon production.

30 persimmons to a string
About a month in the sun and wind
Astringent persimmons introduced in the Meiji 40s

03 ／ Jugosha Shrine

The frame is carved as lions in the round,open and closed mouths alternating.

The main hall of Jugosha Shrine in Oga, Yamagata City, was built in 1701 (Genroku 14) and is a prefectural Important Cultural Property. It has a gabled roof of cypress bark, and its doors carry carvings of the twelve zodiac animals. The prefecture describes the frame as carved lions in the round, mouths open and closed in turn. In the grounds stands the Henmi cedar, a city Natural Monument, which the city gives as about 800 years old and which is said to have been planted by the Henmi clan.

Built 1701 (Genroku 14)
Prefectural Important Cultural Property (designated 27 September 2019)
Henmi cedar, about 800 years old (city)

Living here

No station; 38 minutes by bus from JR Gifu Station.

about 30,000 people

There is no railway station in the city. The Gifu Bus Gifu-Takatomi Line from Stop 12 at JR Gifu Station reaches the Yamagata City Office stop in 38 minutes at the fastest. Buses call at this stop 8 times on weekdays and 6 times on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, and both timetables include a 38-minute trip (revised 1 October 2026).

People living here: 25,280people
Area: 221.98km²
Households: 9,511households
Rent (average for rentals): 33,766yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 23 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —7 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Yamagata City in Japan35.506°N 136.781°E

to GifuLocal bus38min

Travel times follow 岐阜バス公式の路線別時刻表『岐阜高富線』（https://www.gifubus.co.jp/2610_takatomi.pdf。2026年10月1日改正・PDF作成 2026-09-17）。JR岐阜 ⑫のりば発→『山県市役所』停留所着の列を、平日（月曜日～金曜日）と土曜日・日祝日の両方で読み、毎日運転の最速を数えた (checked 2026-10-15). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Yamagata City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

26.0km

関市, 岐阜市, 本巣市

Yamagata City isthis kind of town.

01Hakusan Shrine's worship hall in Higashifukase is a national Important Cultural Property; according to its ridge tablet it was built in 1502 (Bunki 2), and it is an unpainted wooden hall standing on a base built up as a stone wall from the chert and sandstone common nearby
02Oga Castle Site is the remains of a mountain castle and castle town built by the Toki clan, military governors of Mino Province, and became a National Historic Site on 17 February 2026; excavation of the spot traditionally called the Iwamon gate confirmed a gate using stones up to about 2.5 m wide and 2 m high
03Ijira rengaki are dried persimmons made by braiding astringent Ijira Omi persimmons with skewers and straw into strings of 30; the main hall of Jugosha Shrine was built in 1701 (Genroku 14) and is a prefectural Important Cultural Property

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yamagata City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗