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06206 ／さがえし

Sagae City

Floors 3 and 4 hang from four cores.

Sagae City Hall, Kisho Kurokawa

Photo by Wiiii (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ National historic site

The old precinct retains the lookof the cloister-house plots.

This was the precinct of a temple said to have been Emperor Toba's votive temple. In the Edo period it was a temple complex of 3 sub-temples and 48 cloister houses. The main hall (Miroku-do), built in 1618, is an Important Cultural Property. The cloister-house plots and the castle sites behind them retain the old precinct's character.

A temple complex of 3 sub-temples and 48 cloister houses in the Edo period
National historic site since October 6, 2014
The main hall (Miroku-do) was built in 1618

02 ／ District office

A district office of 1878 and an assembly hall of 1886:two Western-style buildings, prefectural cultural properties.

The Nishimurayama District Office was built in 1878 (Meiji 11), after the district system law was promulgated. The prefecture's summary calls it a pioneer of Western-style architecture, the first in the prefecture and the earliest as a district office building in Japan. The 1886 assembly hall is also Western in style.

District office completed in December 1878 (Meiji 11)
Assembly hall built in August 1886 (Meiji 19)
Prefectural Designated Tangible Cultural Property (building)

03 ／ Irrigation canal

The weir that the Oe clan dug from the right bank of the river:the Ministry of Agriculture says about 600 years ago.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries introduces Ninoseki as a weir dug about 600 years ago by the Oe clan, lords of Sagae Castle, from the right bank of the Sagae River, because the moat needed a great deal of water for the castle's renovation. It says the water opened new rice fields and laid the foundation of today's prosperity.

One of the Ministry's 100 Selected Irrigation Canals, the Sagae River irrigation system
Dug by the Oe clan about 600 years ago, according to the Ministry
The park's walking path is about 1.5 km long

Sagae City 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 2021)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

Ninoseki is a 10-minute walk from Sagae Station.

about 40,000 people

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries' walking course reaches the Ninoseki canal in the town center after a 10-minute walk west from Sagae Station. The city says the Aterazawa Line takes 26 minutes from Yamagata Station to Sagae Station (city website, updated April 1, 2022).

People living here: 40,189people
Area: 139.03km²
Households: 13,654households
Rent (average for rentals): 48,901yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 36 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —11 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 7 municipalities.

Sagae City in Japan38.381°N 140.276°E

Territory of Sagae City

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

North to south

21.5km

Oe Town, Nishikawa Town, Kahoku Town, Nakayama Town, Murayama City, Okura Village, Tendo City

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

Sagae City isthis kind of town.

01Sagae City Hall is a postwar modernist building that the Cultural Heritage Online introduces as an early representative work of Kisho Kurokawa; its 3rd and 4th floors project widely, hung by high-tensile steel from four cores, and it is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (building) of Japan
02The old precinct of Jionji was a temple complex of 3 sub-temples and 48 cloister houses in the Edo period; the look of the cloister-house plots and other features is retained, and it was designated a national historic site in 2014
03The former Nishimurayama District Office and the former Nishimurayama District Assembly Hall are prefectural designated tangible cultural properties (buildings), and Ninoseki is a weir drawn from the Sagae River by the Oe clan, introduced by the Ministry of Agriculture as part of the Sagae River irrigation system

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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