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04362 ／やまもとちょう

Miyagi Prefecture 亘理郡

Yamamoto Town

On gentle hills, people have long lived.

Hill land, under 100 m

Photo by Piccolo (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Tea house

A tea house Date Narikuni gave a retainerwas moved here from Sendai in 1932.

Shikuntei is a tea house that Date Narikuni, 28th head of the Date family, gave to his retainer Oeda Michinao. It is a town-designated cultural property. In 1932 it was moved from the Oeda residence in Sendai to the site of the castle's third enclosure in Sakamoto. Its construction is estimated to date from the Tenpo era.

Town-designated tangible property, 2002
Moved from Sendai in 1932
Built in the Tenpo era, estimated

02 ／ Incised wall art

On the back wall of a cave tomb, figures about1,400 years old were incised that look like a bird, a person and a house.

The incised wall art in Tomb No. 38 of the Kassenhara site dates from about 1,400 years ago, between the Asuka and Nara periods. Its designs are thought to include a bird, a person and a house. The actual wall is on permanent display at the town's history and folklore museum.

About 1,400 years old
Designs thought to be a bird, a person and a house
Original on display at the museum

03 ／ Castle site

Shrine on the main enclosure, school on the second,homes on the third.

For 252 years until the Meiji Restoration, Minokubi Castle was the seat of the Oeda family, after Date Masamune gave it to them in 1616. The main enclosure is town-designated. The gate in the third enclosure is built of timber felled between the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Town-designated site (main enclosure), 1978
Oeda family seat for 252 years
Gate timber felled in the 18th to early 19th century

Yamamoto Town from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot July 2022)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

From Yamashita Station, the town office is a 15-20 minute walk.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

The town's access page says the town office is about 15 to 20 minutes on foot from Yamashita Station on the JR Joban Line, or about 5 minutes by the town bus or a taxi. The town covers 64.5 km2, about 6 km east to west and 12 km north to south, nearly a rectangle.

People living here: 12,046people
Area: 64.58km²
Households: 4,541households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 5 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 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Yamamoto Town in Japan37.963°N 140.878°E

Territory of Yamamoto Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.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

12.2km

Miyagi Prefecture: Kakuda City, Watari Town, Marumori Town
Fukushima Prefecture: Shinchi Town

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

Yamamoto Town isthis kind of town.

01The town is high in the west and low in the east, and the town says people have long lived on its gentle hills under 100 m, where many remains have been found
02Shikuntei, a town-designated tea house, was moved from Sendai in 1932 to the castle's third enclosure, and the main enclosure is now a shrine and the second a school
03The original incised wall art from Tomb No. 38 is at the town museum, Shiga Kiyoshi called the land around his villa at Isohama Mukau no Kyo, and a site where the domain watched for foreign ships is town-designated

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yamamoto Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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