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Kaminoyama City
Yamagata Prefecture · City
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Kaminoyama City borders Yamagata City to the south. In the Edo period it prospered as the castle town of the Kaminoyama Domain and as a shukuba (post town) on the Ushu Kaido road. It has three faces, as a castle town, a post town and a hot spring town, and Kaminoyama Onsen is well known. It is the hometown of the tanka poet Saito Mokichi and has a memorial museum to him, and the streets of Narage-shuku also remain.
Key facts
Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2025 Population Census (population, area and density); area from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI), Area Statistics of Prefectures and Municipalities (2025). National ranks are among the 1,741 municipalities, ordered by this site from these values.
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Places to visit
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Mountains in this city
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Neighboring municipalities
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Other municipalities in Yamagata Prefecture
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