Mimasaka City

A Kamakura pagoda moved from a mountain

Chofukuji, three-story pagoda

Photo by Reggaeman (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Hayashi Residence

A wooden plan board survives,and the 1786 build is known.

林家住宅.jpg — Photo by 社会教育課 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

A thatched old house that keeps the layout of a head village official's residence in the Mimasaka region. The plan board survives, and a gatehouse and two storehouses come with it. It opens to the public from the 1st to the 7th of each month, with coffee and sweets (paid).

Important Cultural Property (building, 1969)
Gatehouse and 2 storehouses
Open the 1st–7th of each month

02 ／ Nishi Somon of Doi-juku

Gates at both ends of a post townare said to be rare across Japan.

In the Keicho era Doi-juku became one of the seven post stations of Mimasaka, with barrier gates east and west. Taken down in 1869 when barriers were abolished, the west gate was rebuilt in March 2001. A koraimon-style gate, 6.5 m high and 7.88 m wide.

Rebuilt in March 2001
6.5 m high, 7.88 m wide (koraimon style)
One of the seven Mimasaka stations

03 ／ Tonin-sai of Kajinami Shrine

A festival has been held where a living godsteps over worshippers' backs.

梶並神社当人祭.jpg — Photo by 社会教育課 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

An unusual festival in which the Tonin-sama (living god) steps over the backs of worshippers lying prostrate on the approach. Being stepped over is said to bring good fortune. Held on the first Saturday of October, it is a tradition of four hundred and some decades, kept up by parishioners.

Okayama Prefecture Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property
First Saturday of October
Four hundred and some decades (prefectural tourism site)

Living here

Bordering Tottori to the northand Hyogo to the east, among mountains.

about 30,000 people
2 hours to a city centre

Mimasaka lies in northeastern Okayama, with green mountains, clear rivers and fields in harmony. Its population is 24,004 (end of March 2026). It has Kaita, where tea has been grown since the Edo period, and Kijiyama, where wood-turners have made everyday goods for about 450 years.

People living here: 25,939people
Area: 429.29km²
Households: 10,793households
Rent (average for rentals): 34,461yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 24 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.

Mimasaka City in Japan35.009°N 134.149°E

to OsakaLtd. exp. Super Hakuto103min

Travel times follow 鳥取県（輝く鳥取創造本部観光交流局まんが王国官房）のページ「スーパーはくと名探偵コナン号」に載る運行予定表PDF（20260924_timetable1011.pdf・2026年9月24日時点・「2026年3月14日改正」）の「スーパーはくと号運転時刻表」下り。JR西日本・智頭急行の時刻をそのまま載せたもの（PDFに「スーパーはくと号の時刻は智頭急行㈱のHPからもご確認いただけます」）。PDFを pdftotext で読んで列を数えた（智頭・佐用の agent が使ったものと同じPDF） (checked 2026-09-30). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 9 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Territory of Mimasaka City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

36.6km

Okayama Prefecture: 美咲町, 勝央町, 奈義町, 西粟倉村, 和気町, 備前市
Hyogo Prefecture: 佐用町, 宍粟市
Tottori Prefecture: 智頭町

Mimasaka City isthis kind of town.

01The three-story pagoda of Chofukuji, built in 1285 (Koan 8) by the priest Engen, stands about 22 m tall and is a national Important Cultural Property. Said to be the oldest wooden pagoda in the prefecture, it stood on Mt. Maki and moved to its present site in 1951.
02In Miyamoto stand the site of the house where Miyamoto Musashi is said to have been born and raised (a prefectural historic site since 1959) and Sanomo Shrine; the Chizu Express has a Miyamoto-Musashi Station.
03Yunogo Onsen is known as one of the Mimasaka Three Springs. In Kijiyama, wood-turners have worked natural wood for about 450 years.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Mimasaka City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗