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20422 ／あげまつまち

Nagano Prefecture 木曽郡

Agematsu Town

Granite splits like boxes set in a row.

Nezame no Toko

Photo by Zairon (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Kiso no Kakehashi ruins

The stone wall was completed in Keian 1 (1648),and keeps remains of its rebuilding.

A Prefectural Historic Site. The Hachijuni Cultural Foundation's Shinshu Cultural Properties says the stone wall completed in Keian 1 (1648) forms its core and keeps remains of its rebuilding well. The tourist association says it was a hazardous stretch of the old Nakasendo, that the wooden bridge of the time does not survive, and that a stone wall built over 400 years ago remains.

Prefectural Historic Site, designated March 31, 1966
Stone wall completed in Keian 1 (1648) (Hachijuni Cultural Foundation)
The wooden bridge of the time does not survive (tourist association)

02 ／ Daidai Kagura of Komagatake Shrine

A permanent kagura stage faces the main hall,with a program of thirteen pieces.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes it as a kind of torimono kagura: a sacred pole hung with a mirror and sword stands at the front of the stage, and the program has thirteen pieces, including Iwato Kaibu. The Hachijuni Cultural Foundation's Shinshu Cultural Properties gives May 3 and the third Sunday of June, and says the form is said to have been mostly fixed by the end of the mid-Tokugawa period.

National Selected Intangible Folk Cultural Property, December 8, 1978
Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property, designated July 3, 1969
Thirteen pieces in the program (Agency for Cultural Affairs)

03 ／ Ono Falls

The old Nakasendo is thought to have runcloser to the plunge pool than today's highway.

The tourist association says the falls lie along the Nakasendo and drop about 15 m. Old land registers keep parcels thought to mark the Nakasendo's course, which ran much closer to the plunge pool than today's national highway. JR tracks cross above the stream, and the falls count among the Kiso Eight Views as Ono no Bakufu.

Drop of about 15 m (tourist association)
One of the Kiso Eight Views, Ono no Bakufu
Parcels thought to mark the old Nakasendo remain in land registers

Agematsu 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 May–November 2020)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

About 12 km north to south along the Kiso River, 168.42 km².

about 4,000 people
90 min to a city centre
Rural district town

The town borders Kiso Town to the north and Okuwa Village to the south, with national forest to the west and, to the east, Mount Kisokoma and then Komagane City. The Kiso River, the JR Chuo Line and National Route 19 run through the center from north to south. It was the Agematsu post town on the old Nakasendo, and the town says five of the Kiso Eight Views can be enjoyed here. The gateway is Agematsu Station.

People living here: 4,131people
Area: 168.42km²
Households: 1,785households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 4 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Agematsu Town in Japan35.783°N 137.693°E

to NagoyaLtd. exp. Shinano82min

Travel times follow 名古屋→上松：JR東日本『駅の時刻表』（2026年10月版。運行日カレンダーは2026-09-18〜12-31）の特急しなの号別ページ。1号名古屋07:00発→上松08:22着＝82分、25号名古屋19:40発→上松21:03着＝83分。上松に停まるしなのは、取れた限りでこの2往復（下り1号・25号／上り2号・24号）だけ (checked 2026-10-21). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities.

Territory of Agematsu 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

13.0km

Okuwa Village, Kiso Town, Otaki Village, Miyada Village, Komagane City

Agematsu Town isthis kind of town.

01Nezame no Toko is a granite gorge of the Kiso River, designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty in 1923. The tourist association writes that the granite's characteristic way of splitting gave it a form like large boxes set in a row, and says a Urashima legend has long remained here
02Kiso no Kakehashi ruins is a Prefectural Historic Site whose core is a stone wall completed in Keian 1 (1648). The Daidai Kagura of Komagatake Shrine is a National Selected and Prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property and hands down thirteen pieces
03Ono Falls lies along the old Nakasendo. The town has four Nakasendo milestone mounds, once held the Owari domain's timber office, and at Akasawa a Kiso forest railway is preserved

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Agematsu Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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