06367 ／ とざわむら
Yamagata Prefecture 最上郡Cedar trunks reach up like octopus legs.
Yamanouchi cedar, Fantasy Forest01 ／ Health union
According to the village, the Tsunokawa Village Health Union began in April 1936 and was housed inside the village-run clinic. On 1 August 1938 it received approval as the first national health insurance union under the new law. The monument is carved with four characters meaning "mutual aid."
02 ／ Stone torii
The village's tourism site introduces Sennin-do as a shrine with a tale of a retainer of Minamoto no Yoshitsune who withdrew into the mountains and became a hermit. A survey of the precinct's offerings lists a stone torii 3.65 m high, given in the Horeki era by a man of Shinjo.
03 ／ Giant cedar
The Tsunokawa Giant Cedar, a prefectural natural monument, stands in the grounds of Imakumano Shrine. The prefecture records a root girth of 14 m, a trunk girth of 9.5 m and a height of 42 m. About 14 cedars grow around it, and it is also called the Imagami Giant Cedar.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
2021 (shot FY2021)Shot 1974–78
Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（年度別空中写真（2021年度）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））
Living here
The village has three Rikuu West Line stations: Furukuchi, Tsuya and Takaya. In JR East's November 2026 timetable, nine down trains run daily and stop at Furukuchi, while all trains pass Takaya. The fastest from Shinjo takes 19 minutes. The village covers 261.31 km2, crossed east to west by the Mogami River, and its tourism site says it lies under snow for about four months of the year.
−12% since 2015
6,959 → 4,199
46.08km² of it habitable
2024
3.1 people per household
2020
7.1 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
23.0km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
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