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06362 ／もがみまち

Yamagata Prefecture 最上郡

Mogami Town

Flat ground splits water into two seas.

Sakaida drainage divide

Photo by Mukasora (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Farmhouse

This village headman's house hasa stable inside the building.

Farmhouse in Mogami Town — Photo by ToshiJapon (CC BY-SA 4.0)

In the Edo period it was the home of the village headman of Sakaida in the Shinjo Domain. The family served as both village headman and post-station freight agent, put up travelers along the road, and bred horses with enthusiasm. It has five rooms, an inner earthen yard and an inner stable. A national Important Cultural Property known as Hojin-no-ie, it is said to have been visited by Matsuo Basho.

National Important Cultural Property (designated December 18, 1969)
Five rooms, inner yard, inner stable
Held both the headman and post-station agent posts

02 ／ Horse breeding

In the old Oguni region, a horse wassaid to be made, not kept.

Mogami Town was once called the Oguni region, a land that produced fine horses (not to be confused with Oguni Town in the Okitama region). The hall of Tomiyama Bato Kannon holds 212 votive ema plaques offered since the Edo period, a prefectural tangible folk cultural property.

212 ema, prefectural tangible folk cultural property (May 2, 2008)
Hall is a prefectural tangible cultural property (January 12, 2018)
Oguni horses shipped to Yamagata, Akita and Echigo

03 ／ Archaeological site

Digs at the Mizukida site turned upabout 1,000 boxes of finds.

Excavations in 1978 found eight Middle Jomon pit dwellings, and about 1,000 boxes of finds came from the features and pottery dumps. The town also introduces an 89 cm tall pot and clay figurines. The 330 items designated Important Cultural Properties are kept at a prefectural museum in Takahata Town.

National Important Cultural Property (designated June 27, 2011)
330 items: 136 pottery and clay, 194 stone
Kept in Takahata Town

Mogami Town from the sky

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

20131974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

2013 (shot FY2013)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（年度別空中写真（2013年度）／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

Ringed by peaks on all four sides, once called Oguni.

about 8,000 people
Rural district town

According to the town, a basin opens in the middle of its territory, and most of the land is mountains and hills of the Ou Mountains. The northernmost point is Mt. Komata at 1,367 m and the southernmost is Mt. Okina at 1,075 m. The area is 330.37 km2, the town hall stands at 213 m, and winters bring heavy snow.

People living here: 8,080people
Area: 330.37km²
Households: 2,596households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 3 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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 6 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Mogami Town in Japan38.758°N 140.519°E

Territory of Mogami Town

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

North to south

29.6km

Yamagata Prefecture: Shinjo City, Obanazawa City, Funagata Town
Miyagi Prefecture: Osaki City, Kami Town
Akita Prefecture: Yuzawa City

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

Mogami Town isthis kind of town.

01The Sakaida drainage divide is where water splits: east through the Eai and old Kitakami rivers 116 km to the Pacific at Ishinomaki, west through the Oguni and Mogami rivers 102 km to the Sea of Japan at Sakata. The town describes it as lying on flat ground
02The former Ariji house, a national Important Cultural Property, has a stable inside the headman's home. The 212 ema of Tomiyama Bato Kannon are a prefectural folk cultural property, and the town records the old Oguni region as horse country
03The 330 finds from the Mizukida site are a national Important Cultural Property kept in Takahata Town. The town covers 330.37 km2 of mountains, with a basin in the middle

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Mogami Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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