Yonezawa Higher Technical School, Yonezawa City
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Yamagata Prefecture

Yonezawa City

A wooden school with a 94-meter front.

Yonezawa Higher Technical School

Photo by Mclarensenna (Public domain)

01 ／ Naoe Stone Embankment

Part of it cut away for a bridge replacement,boulders over a meter across came out of its core.

Naoe Stone Embankment in Yonezawa City
Photo by 掬茶 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

This stone-faced embankment on the Matsukawa River was built to the plan of Naoe Kanetsugu. Its cross-section is a trapezoid about 5 m wide at the top, 9 m at the base and 2 m high. When part of it was cut away for a bridge replacement, boulders kept emerging from its core.

  • 1.2 km of the embankment survives
  • Trapezoid: about 5 m top, 9 m base, 2 m high
  • City historic site since 1986 (Showa 61)

02 ／ Old Kuriko Tunnel

A tunnel through Mt. Kuriko broke throughon 19 October 1880 (Meiji 13).

Crews dug from both sides of the mountain, and the two headings met with no discernible offset about 470 m from the Yamagata side and about 400 m from the Fukushima side. The work used American-made drilling machines, and the tunnel was completed the next year.

  • Broke through on 19 October 1880 (Meiji 13)
  • Met about 470 m from the Yamagata side and about 400 m from the Fukushima side
  • American-made drilling machines bought

03 ／ Sankakan site

The residence where Uesugi Yozan spent38 years after retiring at 35.

Sankakan site in Yonezawa City
Photo by 掬茶 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

This is the site of the residence where Uesugi Yozan moved after retiring in 1785 (Tenmei 5), in the third compound of Yonezawa Castle. A single-story building with more than 40 rooms stood on about 3,000 tsubo. A garden was laid out in 1970 (Showa 45) and a monument was erected.

  • Retired at 35 in 1785 (Tenmei 5)
  • About 3,000 tsubo, single story, 40-plus rooms
  • Garden laid out and monument erected in 1970 (Showa 45)

Yonezawa City from the sky

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

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot June 2023)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 1 h 52 min by Shinkansen.

  • about 80,000 people
  • 2 hours to a city centre
  • Shinkansen stops here

The fastest through train on the Yamagata Shinkansen Tsubasa from Tokyo Station to Yonezawa Station takes 1 hour 52 minutes with no change. The city says Yonezawa Station was designed with the former Yonezawa Higher Technical School main building in mind.

People living here
81,252people
19952020

−5.5% since 2015

95,592 → 81,252

Area
548.51km²

133.01km² of it habitable

2024

Households
33,095households

2.5 people per household

2020

Rent (average for rentals)
41,129yen

National average 60,630 yen

2023

Healthcare
6 hospitals ／ 58 clinics

7.9 per 10,000 people

2023

Area548.51km²Habitable land133.01km² ／ 24%
Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103
Children waiting for childcare
—20 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy
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Average annual temperature
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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.

Yonezawa City in Japan37.922°N 140.117°E
TokyoOsakaYonezawa City
Yonezawa Station
米沢駅2020
  • to TokyoYamagata Shinkansen112min

Travel times follow JR東日本『駅の時刻表』2026年11月号（URL に 2611）の米沢駅（コード1648）山形新幹線の下り（平日 1648010・土曜休日 1648011）の列車ページから、東京の『発』→米沢の『着』を数えた（$SP/yonezawa/jr/jr_count.py。『毎日』だけに絞った）。毎日運転の最速はつばさ131号（やまびこ131号と併結・列車番号131M／131B）の東京09:24発→米沢11:16着＝112分。列車ページ（https://timetables.jreast.co.jp/2611/train/020/021951.html）に運転日の注意書きは無い。下ごしらえで本体が数えた112と一致 (checked 2026-10-28). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

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

North to south

28.2km

Yamagata Prefecture
Takahata Town, Kawanishi Town, Iide Town
Fukushima Prefecture
Fukushima City, Kitashiobara Village, Kitakata City, Inawashiro Town

Yonezawa City isthis kind of town.

  1. 01The former Yonezawa Higher Technical School main building, completed in 1910 (Meiji 43), is a two-story wooden building 94 meters long across its front and is a national Important Cultural Property
  2. 02The Naoe Stone Embankment on the Matsukawa River, built to Naoe Kanetsugu's plan, survives for 1.2 km as a city historic site, and the tunnel through Mt. Kuriko that broke through in 1880 was dug with American-made drilling machines
  3. 03The site of the Sankakan, where Uesugi Yozan lived after retiring, was a single-story building with more than 40 rooms on about 3,000 tsubo, and a garden and monument were added in 1970 (Showa 45)

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yonezawa City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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