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06381 ／たかはたまち

Yamagata Prefecture 東置賜郡

Takahata Town

A station framed mainly in local stone.

Former Takahata Station

Photo by Jet-0 (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Quarry

At Uriwari Stone Garden Park you can seethe remains of a Takahata stone quarry.

Quarry in Takahata Town — Photo by Ttckisi (CC0)

The Takahata tourism association says that at Uriwari Stone Garden Park you can see the remains of the Uriwari quarry, where Takahata stone was cut from 1923 to 2010. It says the stone was quarried for hundreds of years from the Edo period and is used in the town in places such as the Former Takahata Station.

Quarried 1923 to 2010 (tourism association)
Hundreds of years of quarrying from the Edo period (tourism association)
Also used in the Former Takahata Station (tourism association)

02 ／ Pagoda

A prefecture-designated pagoda stands at the approach,20.5 m from its foundation stone to the finial.

The town says the pagoda was rebuilt in 1797 and was first built in 1625, it is said. The prefecture's database lists it as designated on April 1, 1952, and gives the height of the tiered tower, three bays square, as 20.5 m from the foundation stone to the tip of the finial.

Prefecturally designated cultural property (building)
Designated April 1, 1952
20.5 m from foundation stone to finial

03 ／ Cave

From the cave's deposits came pottery and stone toolsof the Incipient Jomon period.

The national database lists the site as a historic site designated on February 17, 1977, where natural caves and rock shelters in a tuff outcrop were used as dwellings, and says Incipient Jomon pottery and stone tools were found. The town describes the largest cave, Cave 1, as gourd-shaped, with an entrance 3.5 m high and 5 m wide and a depth of 14 m.

National historic site
Designated February 17, 1977
Cave 1 is 14 m deep

Takahata 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 June 2016)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

Tokyo in 2 h 14 min on the Yamagata Shinkansen.

about 20,000 people
Shinkansen stops here
Rural district town

In JR East's timetable (November 2026 edition), the fastest through train from Tokyo Station to Takahata Station on the Yamagata Shinkansen takes 134 minutes with no change. The town's access page gives "Tokyo Station (Yamagata Shinkansen / 2 hours 20 minutes)". The town's website says the town grew on the alluvial fans of the Yashiro and Wada rivers.

People living here: 22,463people
Area: 180.26km²
Households: 7,358households
Rent (average for rentals): 40,996yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 12 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —5 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Takahata Town in Japan38.003°N 140.189°E

to TokyoYamagata Shinkansen134min

Travel times follow JR東日本『駅の時刻表』（2026年11月号・URL に 2611）の高畠駅（コード0942）の下り（山形新幹線。平日 0942010・土曜休日 0942011）の列車ページから、東京の『発』→高畠の『着』を列車ごとに数えた（$SP/takahata/jr/jr_count.py。リポジトリ版の版を 2611 に、出力を『毎日』かつ運転日の注記なしだけに絞ったもの）。毎日運転（平日と土休日の両方に同じ分数で載る）の最速は、東京11:00発→高畠13:14着＝134分（東京〜福島はやまびこ135号〈135B〉とつばさ135号〈135M〉を併結。第2段で列車ページの列の並びを読み直すと、福島で分割したあと米沢・高畠に停まる列はつばさ135号〈135M〉の側）。次は121B（06:12発）・143B（15:00発）・149B（17:00発）の136分、127B（08:07発）の150分。列車ページ（https://timetables.jreast.co.jp/2611/train/030/030131.html）の運転日の欄は空で、臨時・特定日の注意書きは無い。下ごしらえで本体が数えた134分と一致 (checked 2026-10-28). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Territory of Takahata Town

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

North to south

20.7km

Yamagata Prefecture: Yonezawa City, Nanyo City, Kawanishi Town, Kaminoyama City
Miyagi Prefecture: Shichikashuku Town
Fukushima Prefecture: Fukushima City

Takahata Town isthis kind of town.

01The Former Takahata Station is a two-story station building put up in 1934 as the hub of the Takahata Railway; the Agency for Cultural Affairs database says its main structural material is the local tuff (Takahata stone), and it was registered as a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property (building) on August 1, 2016
02The Uriwari quarry site is where Takahata stone was cut from 1923 to 2010; the tourism association says the stone was quarried for hundreds of years from the Edo period and is used in places such as the Former Takahata Station
03The three-story pagoda of Akutsu Hachiman Shrine is prefecture-designated and 20.5 m from foundation stone to finial; Hinata Cave is a national historic site, a cave site with Incipient Jomon remains

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Takahata Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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