Kameyama City

Mie's only Tokaido mound still intact.

Nomura Ichirizuka, Tokaido

01 ／ Suzuka no Seki site

The Nara-period barrier's earthen wallis estimated at about 3 m high and 650 m long.

Suzuka no Seki was one of the three barriers called the Sangen, along with Fuwa no Seki in Gifu Prefecture and Arachi no Seki in Fukui Prefecture, facilities by which the ritsuryo state controlled traffic. Excavations begun in 2006 found part of a tile-roofed earthen wall thought to date from the mid-8th century, and the site was designated a National Historic Site in March 2021.

National historic site, March 26, 2021
Wall about 3 m high (estimated)
About 650 m north to south (estimated)

02 ／ Kagami-iwa, Suzuka-yama

Rubbed smooth by a fault's friction,the rock face takes on a mirror-like sheen.

Kagami-iwa, the "mirror rock" on Suzuka Pass, is a quartzite face 2.2 m high and 2 m wide, and a Prefectural Natural Monument. Its sheen is uneven: the brightest part is bluish-black, and some faces have weathered to reddish brown. The local tourist association also relates a story of bandits who attacked travelers whose figures showed in the rock.

Prefectural Natural Monument, 1936
2.2 m high, 2 m wide
Quartzite

03 ／ Seki floats

Of the 16 floats at their peak,four remain today.

The Seki floats are pulled at the summer festival of Seki Shrine in the Seki post town, and are city-designated folk cultural property. The city says there were once as many as 16; today four remain, kept by four neighborhoods of the town. They are known for yatai-mawashi, in which only the upper part of the float turns.

City-designated, March 23, 1991
16 at their peak
Four today

Living here

Three Tokaido post towns, now inside one city.

about 50,000 people

The city was formed on January 11, 2005 by the merger of the former Kameyama city and the former town of Seki. Its total area is 191.04 km², with the Suzuka Mountains running along the northwest and the land continuing east to the Ise Plain. The gateway is Kameyama Station, where the Kansai Main Line and the Kisei Main Line part, about a 10-minute walk from City Hall.

People living here: 49,835people
Area: 191.04km²
Households: 20,617households
Rent (average for rentals): 40,988yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 36 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-01-11 に新設合併（関町）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —13 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 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Kameyama City in Japan34.856°N 136.452°E

Territory of Kameyama City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

16.7km

Mie Prefecture: 鈴鹿市, 津市, 伊賀市
Shiga Prefecture: 甲賀市

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

Kameyama City isthis kind of town.

01Nomura Ichirizuka, a Tokaido mile mound built in 1604 (Keicho 9), is a National Historic Site; the prefecture explains that it is the only Tokaido mile mound in the prefecture to keep its original form, and a muku tree nearly 400 years old stands on top
02Kameyama, Seki and Sakashita were Tokaido post towns, and Seki-juku is a nationally designated Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings; the city says the torii at Higashi no Oiwake is moved from Ise Jingu every twenty years
03Suzuka no Seki and the Shohoji Sanso site are National Historic Sites, and the Tamon-yagura turret of Kameyama Castle is a Prefectural Historic Site; the Seki floats are known for yatai-mawashi, in which only the upper part turns, and are said to be the origin of the phrase Seki no Yama

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kameyama City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗