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Yamagata Prefecture 最上郡Jizo line a rock said to house a monk.
Jizo rock, hot spring legend01 ／ Check dam
This dam stands on a river of the Mogami River system, just above Hijiori hot spring. It is 182 m long and 11 m high, with a sub-dam about 50 m downstream. Built in 1952 (Showa 27), it became a nationally registered tangible cultural property (structure) in 2009.
02 ／ Castle site
According to Yamagata Prefecture, a lord of the Shimizu clan built it around 1478 (Bunmei 8) on a tongue-shaped plateau west of the Mogami River. Water moats and dry moats divided the main and second enclosures. The site holds the graves of successive lords and a memorial stone. It is a prefecturally designated historic site.
03 ／ Rice-planting dance
According to the village, every June at the "sanabori" celebration marking the end of rice planting, the dance is offered at a mound built by the castle's retainers in memory of its lord. Then it visits about 150 homes in the settlement, performing door-to-door dances.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
2018 (shot FY2018)Shot 1974–78
Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（年度別空中写真（2018年度）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））
Living here
There is no railway station in the village. The village says it takes 25 minutes by bus from Shinjo Station to Okura Village Office. In the timetable of the village's "Hijiori Yukemuri Line" bus (revised October 1, 2023), all 7 weekday and 4 weekend and holiday buses take 25 minutes from Shinjo Station to Shimizu stop, with no transfer.
−11.3% since 2015
4,863 → 3,028
32.49km² of it habitable
2024
3.2 people per household
2020
6.6 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 大蔵村営バス『肘折ゆけむりライン（肘折温泉－新庄線）』の時刻表（令和5年10月1日改定。村公式の同路線ページは2023-12-01更新）。新庄駅前発→『清水』着は、平日7本（7:20→7:45・8:35→9:00・10:15→10:40・11:25→11:50・13:45→14:10・15:45→16:10・18:05→18:30）も土日祝4本（11:15→11:40・13:45→14:10・15:45→16:10・18:05→18:30）も、すべて25分。逆向きの清水→新庄駅前も平日6本・土日祝4本ともすべて25分（7:10→7:35・9:05→9:30 ほか）。村公式『交通アクセス』（2026-03-04更新）も『新庄駅…（25分）…大蔵村役場』とバスで書く（新庄駅…55分…肘折温泉） (checked 2026-10-28). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
26.7km
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