Access to Sagae Akita Prefecture What is "SAGAE" like? Sagae City is located almost in the middle of Yamagata Yamagata Sakata Prefecture, which shape appears to be a profile of a person. Yamagata Shinkansen 2hrs 29min Tokyo The developing city, also known as a Valley of Flower and Aterazawa Line

Shinjo Green, is a nice place to live as it has well-maintained motor- JR Tsuruoka Tohoku Shinkansen Senzan Line 26min ways, which allow us to access to Yamagata Airport only for Sendai 20 minutes. Fresh streams of Sagae River and the abundance 1hr 36min 1hr 7min Sagae City Ookura of nature well nurture people and fruits and continue to Village

Murayama produce the Treasure of Sagae. Yamagata Airport City 1hr [One flight per day] Sagae Nishikawa-machi Higashine If someone asks you "where are you going?", then feel free to Tokyo Kahoku-cho City 1hr 5min [One flight per day] Taxi Miyagi answer "I'm just going to Sagae to find smiley faces." The Ooe-machi Tendo City Nakayama-machi Airplane Nagoya Prefecture sweet fragrances of fruits, flower-blossoming colorful paths 20min Asahi-machi Yamanobe-machi and pure smiles of local people warmly welcome you. 1hr 15min [Three flights per day] Yamagata City Osaka

Tohoku Expressway Murata JCT Tokyo 4hrs (330km) Yamagata Expressway

Yonezawa City Tohoku Expressway 40min (53km) Niigata Car Sendai Prefecture To Akita 12min (18km) Fukushima Prefecture Route 7 Route 113 Route 287 Ookura Village Niigata 3hrs 30min (169km) Mt. Gassan JR Sagae Station Mt. Hayama Murayama City

To Tsuruoka Yamako Bus Sagae Office Sagae City Sagae Taxi Murayama Nishikawa-cho Chuo Taxi Gassan IC Yamagata Expressway Kahoku-cho Yamagata Shinkansen

Nishikawa IC Cherry Higashine Higashine City Yamagata Airport

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Aterazawa Nishi Sagae Shibahashi Sagae SA Tendo IC Sagae To Sendai Sagae IC Tendo Minami Sagae Tendo City

Ooe-machi Nagasaki Tohoku Central Expressway Nakayama-machi To Sendai Aomori Senzan Line Hachinohe Shin Aomori Aterazawa Line Yamagata JCT

Yamadera Yamanobe Yamagata Kita IC Akita Morioka Yamanobe-machi Shinkansen Miyagi Prefecture Motorway Ooasahidake Yamagata City Airplane Yamagata Chuo IC Kita Asahi-machi Yamagata Sagae Travel Yamagata Sakata Shinjo Shonai Airport Yamagata Airport Information Sagae City Sendai To Sendai Yamagata Murata JCT Niigata Fukushima

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The 5th New Sagae City Promotion Plan was established with the theme of "Sagae, a city of cherries, where dreams happen and people and nature shine." To celebrate the launch of Tokyo the plan, a design proposal of a campaign character was invited, in which we received a large number of responses from all over the nation. After the first screening by the Sagae City Tourism Campaign Promotion Committee and the second screening, a popularity vote by elementary school students and city residents, Nagoya the Best Image Character Award was given to "Cherin", designed by Masayo Shiozaki. Contact Currently, Cherin is seen in various scenes of promotional activities in Sagae City. Osaka Sagae City Cherry Tourism Division 1-9-45, Chuo, Sagae, Yamagata Prefecture, 991-8601 Cherin Designer / Masayo Shiozaki (Ikuno-ku, Osaka) Phone:0237-86-2111 Fax:0237-86-7100 With an image of a fairy of cherry, which is a symbol of Sagae City, Cherin was deigned as a lovely mascot char- Sagae City Tourism Association acter that is loved by anyone from children to elder people. The character wears a scarf, made with Sagae soba noodles, and a shirt with an azalea, the city flower. The green color of her shirt represents the rich nature of 1-9-45, Chuo, Sagae, Yamagata Prefecture, 991-8601 Sagae. The posing of the lively jump presents a sense of energy, which expresses the future progress of Sagae. Phone/Fax:0237-86-8866 (commented by the designer) Sagae Tourism Search Sagae City, Yamagata Prefecture This brochure has been printed with an eco-friendly vegetable oil ink. 16111000 Cherry Road Late Mar - late Jul / Doll Festival Jun - early Jul / Cherry Festival Festival Calendar ○In the city ○In the city Cherry is originally from Republic of Turkey in western Asia. It was delivered to Doll Festival is a celebration of girls for • National Seed Spitting Competition their growth by decorating dolls repre- Europe in the pre Christian era, then arrived in Japan in the early Meiji era via the • Miss Cherry Contest senting a noble family in a wedding US. The pathway from Turkey to Sagae is called the "Cherry Road". scene. Sagae was actively interacting • Tour de Cherry About cherry This history has brought an opportunity for Sagae City and Giresun City in Turkey with Kyoto • Opening of Tourism Cherry Park to establish a sister-city relationship in 1988. Giresun City has established Sagae Park and Edo in the • Cherry Haiku Competition and Sagae Road within the city, Edo era, and • Cherry Marathon Race Others England Oregon The US 17th centuries there are still and Sagae has built Turkey Hall Sagae (1876) Germany France 1st - 2nd many old valu- in Cherry Land. centuries Turkey ○Mogami River Japan 19th centuries California able dolls for Giresun (origin of cherry) Doll Festivals Furusato Sogo Park Cherry Road in the city. Yumetane@Sagae Cherry picking Mid - late Apr / Cherry Festival ○Sagae Park Would you like to enjoy picking red cherries heav- Sagae Park is a well-known spot for ily grown on trees, and eating them? The freshly cherry blossom viewing along with the site of Hachimangu, Cherry Hills, Sagae City is known as the best valley of cherries in Japan. The Chi- picked fruit is indescribably delicious. Hope you Sagae City has many festivals with long Sandai Sakura, etc. National Seed Spitting Competition nese cherry, called an Outou in Japanese, is originally from the west- visit us one day to enjoy cherries in Sagae. history, events that attracts many people, etc. ern Asia. The white flowers fully blossom in the end of April, and The best time: early Jun - mid July Price: \1,200 After enjoying festivals in spring, in which Mid-May / Azalea Festival Mid Sep / Sagae Festival ruby-red cherries grown abundantly from the end of June to the Contact:Shunen Tourism Agriculture Information Center people enjoy viewing cherry blosso ms and mid July. During this period, Sagae becomes crowded with tourists (within the Cherry Hall in Cherry Land) azaleas, Cherry Festival starts in early ○Azalea Garden in Sagae Park ○Sagae Hachimangu and in the city The Azalea Park, which coming from inside/outside the prefecture for cherry picking . summer. Autumn festivals in different areas • Yabusame stretches over the east • Yakko town tour to celebrate good harvest is also enjoyable. A slope of Mt. Nagaoka in the • Mikoshi Festival The pink building has been designed based on festive feeling reaches at peak with Sagae The center of the urban area, • Garyu Drum town tour Cherry Hall city is enveloped has the largest area size in A theme park with a motif of cherries! the image of a space shuttle. Photos and panels Festival, which is held at Hachimangu as its • Furusato Entertainment Festival center. in a festival mood Tohoku area, with 43,000 • Delicious Big Pot Festival showing the history and planting of cherries, with the best mikoshi festival colorful azaleas waving in in Tohoku area, yabusame, There are many traditional events including paper cutout works of late Masayuki Miyata, Enjoy four seasons of Sagae colored with pleasant breezes in May. festivals. etc. yabusame, in which a horse rider releases Cherry Land etc. are displayed. The facility also provides a (they are lit up at night) an arrow while riding a running horse. road information service and tourist informa- tion. The place also sells unique ice creams made Sagae - a city colored with flowers, greens and the sound of a river stream. Sagae Spring Flower Story with local ingredients, and attracts visitors Well-known spot for cherry blossoms and azaleas (Sagae Park) throughout a year.. Flower Walk The best time: mid - end April The best time: early - late May Various attractions Turkish Hall Approx. 300 Someiyoshino cherry trees spread over the site The combination of colors created with blossom light pink flowers gorgeously. of a huge 222,000m² area. elegant azalea flowers are breathtakingly Cherry flowers being lit up at nighttime It opens 365 days beautiful. The huge area size, which is said produce magical atmospheres. Visitors can to be the biggest in Tohoku area, is must- Cherry Land Sagae enjoy visiting many stalls and various see. This building, consisting of a tourist / product center, restaurants, large halls and confer- fun-filled events at Cherry Festival. ence rooms, is a concentration of handiworks, specialties and deliciousness collected from all over Yamagata Prefecture. Visitors can enjoy shopping and having a rest.

International Cherry Park Cherry Dome The design of the building, by an architect There are 139 cherry trees (114 species) The cone-shaped modern from Republic of Turkey, is the same as those from Japan and overseas in the park. building has been built in the Ottoman Turks era. Marbles, tiles, metal- Sagae City is a rainbow-colored place with flowers and greens throughout Also, creeks and rest houses are using triangle panels lic decorations, etc. are from Turkey. In the four seasons. The enrichment of the city has been being promoted by arranged around trees of seasonal fruits without iron frames. It is facility, ceramics, glass products, bronze handi- introducing flowers and green through activities such as "Yumetane @ (plums, apples, grapes, quinces, peaches, known as a symbol of work, as well as fabrics and photos are exhib- Sagae" and Flower Road. Ninoseki-shinsui Park, at which visitors can enjoy pears, blueberries, nashi pears, etc.) Cherry Land. ited. Visitors can enjoy the culture of Turkey, a intersection of west and east. the feeling of river streams through their skin, is a recreation space.

Site of A magnificent temple of Tohoku with 100% free-flowing national history Jionji Temple one-thousand year history. Local products of Sagae! hot-spring for beautiful skin Sagae Hot Spring Sweets Pretty sweets made with Cherries are popular. Locally produced sake / wines Sagae Hot Spring The temple has been said to be Sagae has a variety of cherry sweets that represents the nickname of the The deliciousness that can be produced only with Hot spring facilities Sagae Hot Spring was discovered city "a valley of cherries". Sagae sweets, in both western and Japanese high quality water and rice. built in 746 by Bodhisena, an in 1954. There are some inns in Japanese cuisine / inn Yoshimoto･･･ ☎84-2138 60 people Hot spring inn styles, are very delicious, which includes classic crackers that are used to Sagae's sake, made with pure water and high quality Indian Buddhist, with an order the urban areas near the Sagae Kawaraya inn･･･････････････ ☎86-4630 12 people Hot spring inn seen at a sweets shop, etc. rice, is so flavorful that you can relish. Visitors can also Station. It is a 100% free-flowing ･･････････････････ of Emperor Seimu. Received find Japan's first "cherry wine", which is good for souve- Hotel Town ☎86-8686 32 people Business hotel with hot spring baths hot-spring. The unique bath, in good supports from leaders in nirs. Kokorono-yado Ichiryu･･･ ☎86-2233 114 people Hot spring inn which petals of locally produced Japanese cuisine/ inn Fukuyoshi ･･･ ☎84-2661 18 people Hot spring inn roses and chrysanthemums are capital cities in the Heian and Hotel Symphony ･････････ ☎86-2131 120 people Hot spring inn placed, are highly applauded, and medieval eras, the temple had Japanese cuisine / inn Kanou･･･ ☎84-3034 22 people Hot spring inn is a friendly bath effective for Hotel Symphony Annex･･･ ☎83-1222 140 people Hot spring inn become the largest in Tohoku Jionji bugaku beautiful skins, and it is popular area in the Edo era. among women. Hotel Sun Cherry････････ ☎83-5000 101 people City Hotel Within the site, there are build- Yu-Cherry･････････････････････ ☎83-1414 Hot springs for day trippers Shin Sagae Hot Spring Cherry Park Hotel･･･････ ☎83-1511 152 people Hotels for long stay ings including five story pagodas, as well as many This new hot spring was discov- Public bath･･････････････････ ☎86-1126 Public bath Buddha statues. Among them, those statues pro- ered in 1980 in Takase area in *Public baths duced 900 - 1000 years ago have been drawing the southern area of the city. The public baths, which attracts ◇6.30am - 9pm (regular business hours / Closes on: the second Thursday) attentions domestically and internationally. 250,000 people a year, and Cherry ◇Admission fee: Adult \200, Child \100 ◇TEL.0237-86-1126 Jionji hondou Kurpark, are popular spots. ◇ office of a temple TEL.0237-87-3993 National important cultural properties Traditional handiworks Processed food Processed fruits and traditional tastes are great souvenirs. Fruit Picking Calendar Structures Honzan Jionji hondou…………………………………………………… Hand-dyed carp banners (koi-nobori) are famous. Dried noodles of Sagae is so delicious that every- The hand-dyed carp banners that are one wants to eat again, and is highly applauded Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Sculptures wooden Amida Nyorai zazo ………………………………………… rarely seen in Japan, are characterized by its fans inside / outside the prefecture. More- wooden kishi Monju Bosatsu and kyouji ………………………… with its body, which represents the thick over, Sagae is a treasure box of fruits, so the season Best Strawberry Blueberry Secchu Strawberry quality and quantity of the processed fruits in wooden kizou Fugen Bosatsu and ju-rasetsunyo ……………… body of carps climbing along Mogami Cherry Peach Apple River, dark ink colors, and powerful lines. Sagae is no comparison to others. Corned beef is wooden Miroku Bosatsu and syo-sonzo …………………………… Sagae's local handiworks includes Sagae a specialty of Sagae. Grape Pear wooden Junishinsho (the twelve protective deities) Ritsuzo… Pottery, Garyu Pottery / nobori, hammer Traditional flavors of locals can be found in carps Experiential activities: soba making, potato cooking, rice cake making, ice cream cooked with sweet soup, natural honey, miso ………………………… forged blades, paulownia-work, etc. are wooden Yakushi Nyorai and two kyouji the proof of the great technique of pastes and soy sauce, which are made with local For further information on fruit picking, please contact to Cherry Hall on 0237-86-1811. Three Story Pagoda Statue of Amitābha Twelve Heavenly Generals Intangible folk Jionji bugaku（Hayashi-ke bugaku） masters. ingredients. Major historical sites/cultural assets To Hayama Garyu Pottery / Nobori Minowa Sannoudai Park To Kahoku-cho / Yamagata Airport ■Sagae Hachimangu E-7 Yachiyo Park In 1191, Ooeno Chikahiro transferred the god of Kamakura To Nishikawa-cho, Tsuruoka Hachimangu to a new Sagae-sou, and enshrined it in Tsuruoka City the land of Nagaoka. Since then, the shrine has made a history over 800 years as a Shiraiwa Bizendate Park Jionji Temple Houzou-in Shiraiwa Power Station guardian of Sagae-sou. The autumn festival sees yabusame and Area Map of Sagae yakko town tour, which are performed with the hope of good Shiraiwa Gimin Monument Shiraiwa harvest, and carrying a mikoshi (portable shrine). Kezou-in Elementary Three Story Enjoy Sagae School Tanemaki Pagoda ■Hirashio Kumano Shrine and Bugaku Cherry blossom Saijo-in It is said that the shrine was opened by H-4 Hiwada Kumogawara Gyoki after the gods were transferred from Jingamine Camp of Jionji Temple Hiwada Hachiman Shrine (Rice planting dance) Kii Kumano Gongen in 721. It is an old and Recommended courses Let's walk Sagae the biggest shrine with a temple estate of These are recommended courses that visits attractive spots in Sagae town with map ! 149-seki and 9-to area size, and received a City. Chose a course that meets your purpose, and enjoy the whole Garyu Bridge goshuin (letter bearing the shogun's scarlet of Sagae. Shin Garyu Bridge seal) from Edo shogunate government. Inside the cedar forests, which are dark even in a daytime, there are two wooden Juo statues, West Area Public Hall Daigo Enjoy Jionji Temple Tour Eating tour course Showazeki Weir which have been designated as a cultural asset of the prefecture, and the main temple that Elementary School Miizumi enshrines a Laksmi statue quietly sitting. The elegant performance of Hirashio Bugaku is 【4-5 hours】 【4-5 hours】 Garyu Ohashi Bridge Elementary School performed at the shrine on April 3 every year. The performance is regarded as a very impor- Ryosei Junior tant culture in the fork study field as it has developed under the influence of Kyoto Bugaku, High School which has been disappeared a long time ago.(an intangible cultural asset designated by the JR Uzen Takamatsu Station C-4 Miizumu Cherry Tourism Cherry Park Information Center prefecture) （25 min） (fruit picking) Takae (Kamigawara store) A-5 （5 min） Miizumi Cherry ■Fork Museum（Nishi Murayama-gun Office/Gun Conference Hall） Jionji Temple Control Center C-7 Kamigawara The impact of the westernization and modernization in the D-7 □Main Hall / Yakushima Hall Cherry Land Nakagawara Saigyo modoshi-no- Jionji Ohashi Meiji era could see in rural areas as well. In 1878, after the □Saijo-in □Kezou-in □Ice cream □Turkey cuisine Takamatsu laws were established for the country (gun in Japanese), the west- namida-saka Bridge □Three Story Pagoda □Ball konnyaku □Soba Elementary School Sagae River Land ern style building was built as a Gun Office in the center of the Seisuke-shinden Yakuwa □Old trees/traditional places Improvement District town at the time. Local people might have experienced the arrival （10 min） of a new history by looking at the white building and street （15 min） Izumi E-8 Strawberry Route 112 Tourism Cherry Land lamps along the main street. Today, the office has been trans- Furusawa Brewer Museum ferred within the Sagae Park, and displays historical materials. Sannoudai Park A-4 Garden Cherry Control Center Kasenjiki Park (sake tasting) Shimogawara (designated as a tangible cultural asset by the prefecture) （25 min） Takamatsu Miizumi Tourism Cherry Shopping Center Shunen Tourism Agriculture A-3 A-3 Building for Agriculture Information Center Information Center ■Tanemaki Cherry Blossom Garyu Bridge (Shimogawara store) Soba restaurants of Sagae High School (within the Cherry Hall in Cherry Land) The species of the cherry is Edohigan Sakura with 4.8 meter in a (Check point of Rokujuri-goe Road) Sagae River Bridge (throughout the city) Kashima Ninoseki-shinsui Park Tofu Factory Seiryu-an diameter of roots and 10 meter of the main trunk. It is approx. （15 min） Uzen Takamatsu City Water Office Sagae Gakuen 800 years old. The origin of the name (tanemaki: seeding in Japanese) is from a myth that the tree had saved farmers in an C-4 JR Uzen Takamatsu Station City Walk course ancient times after they missed a chance of seeding plants Shopping Center because of nasty gangs. (a natural treasure designated by the 【4-5 hours】 Kahoku-cho prefecture) Nature Walk course Yonezawa Three Colored JR Sagae Station F-7 Flower Village Sagae Police ■Five-piece gravestones of Ooe Tomohiro and his wife 【4-5 hours】 Station （3 min） The tower is a gravestone of Ooe Tomohiro, the estate E-7 manager of Sagae-sou, and his wife. The two towers stand Jionji Temple A-5 - Seseragi Foot Spa F 7 Ryoto Junior together within the graveyard in Chokoji Temple. Tomohiro （25 min） (In front of Sagae Station) High School Nishine-kita machi passed away in 1494 (Muromachi era). After her husband died, the wife donated their land to Chokoji. The names of lands

C-7 （3 min） Susaki Cherry Land (R287) Road Benibana River Mogami written on the donation letter along with the tower that says Ishimochibara Tourism Sagae National Road （25 min） E-8 "Akada, Kinosawa, Takase..." tells the current generation about Sagae City Museum Cherry Control Center Citizen Pool Murayama Sogo Branch Office Maintenance Office Sagae River Sagae-sou in the medieval era. (a historical site designated by the (within Flora SAGAE) Ninoseki-shinsui Park C-7 Mogami Orchid Garden city) Aterazawa Line Sagae Social Insurance Office （10 min） Civic gymnasium （25 min） Hello Work Sagae E-8 D-7 Sagae Hachimangu E-7 Sagae Chuo Industrial Complex ■Tomb of Kuwana warriors Sagae Park On September 20, 1868, the imperial army and Kuwana army □Azalea Garden （5 min） developed a harsh battle in Sagae City. Kuwana ran away to Basho-numa Battlefield Cultural □Cherry Hill D-7 Koi Road Yamagata Newspaper Shimogawara Shonai after losing 19 warriors. A monk of Youshun-in called Sagae Park Center Daikan-osho collected the bones of the diseased warriors and （25 min） Sagae Branch □Azalea Garden Sagae Park Ishimochi-cho mourned for them sincerely. The tombstone represents the F-7 □Cherry Hill Kosho Path Fire Station storms of Meiji Restoration in the local area. (a historical site Seseragi Foot Spa Yamagata Newspaper designated by the city) (In front of Sagae Station) （20 min） Sagae Area Funeral Hall Industrial Complex Hall Sagae Branch Nishine - C-7 Athletic field F 6 Ninoseki-shinsui Park Rokku-machi ■Otomo Kannon （5 min） City Technology Mogami 33 Kannon No. 15 Ofuda Office located in the Otomo area in the western side of the city. Although the origin of the name Exchange Plaza Fork Museum Nishine Elementary School Cherry Land C-7 Kyourou Ikusei-en Lookout Park "Otomo" is not known, there is a theory related to it on Hagoromo, Sagae Technical Ononokomachi, Kobo Daishi, etc. The main image is a Kannon JA Sagae Nishi Murayama Cherry Hill High School Sagae Tax Office with eleven faces. To Aterazawa-cho Azalea Garden Sagae Area Funeral Hall Nishine Baseball field Matsukawa Midori-cho Nagaoka Heartful Center Elementary School Prefectural Adult E-8 Chuo Takara ■Nagaoka Kannon Fork Museum Nishi Sagae Disease Checkup Shibahashi Prefectural Forest Research JA Aguri Mogami 33 Kannon No. 16 Ofuda Office. It was originally located Shopping Center Center Nitta Shibahash and Lecture Center Funatsuki Kannon in Mt. Nagaoka, but was transferred to a betto-ji (annex) of

Sagae High School Chamber of (Ookiyama Shrine) (R112) Road Cherry Gassan Chonenji Temple because both Sagae and Shibahashi camps were Yamagishi Commerce City Library moved to Mt. Nagaoka. The main image of a Kannon with eleven Kinugasa Shopping Center faces. Hachiman-cho Industry of City Office pine tree (Five-piece gravestones Nanoka-machi Remains of Shibahashi Ground of Sagae HS Sagae Hachimangu of Ooe Tomohiro and his wife) F-7 Daikan Office ■Sagae Mikoshi Hall Sagae Branch of Legal Chokoji Chonenji Temple Map of the surroundings The glass-paneled unique building distributes the culture of Affairs Bureau Temple (Nagaoka Kannon Mogami No. 16 Ofuda Office) Sagae. It always displays mikoshi that are brought out for Sagae Sagae Pottery Youshun-in Festival. The information corner in the center of the building Chokoji Temple Shopping Center (tomb of Kuwana warriors) of the station Flora SAGAE shows the scenes of festival and tourist information on a large Furusawa Brewer Museum screened Diamond Vision. Kawaraya NTT (Five-piece gravestones of Ooe Tomohiro) Sagae Elementary School(the site of Sagae Castle) Big judas tree Sagae Hotel Town Yoshimoto Post Office Marunouchi Hotel Ichiryu Kano-ya Saiunji Temple Hosenji Temple Higashi Danchi Nature Spot Yamagata Forest Hotel Sun Cherry Ryonan-cho Daiunji Shopping Center Funabashi-machi Control Station Fukuyoshi - Honcho ■Azalea Garden D 7 Fukusen-in Shopping Center Chuo Taxi Sagae Taxi Minami-machi Koshiizaka Mt. Nagaoka, located in the heart of the city, and Sagae Park in Ryonan Junior High School Sagae Mikoshi Hall its center, are popular as a recreation park for local people. Honcho Yamagata Hotel Symphony Shopping Center Especially, Azalea Park is the largest scale in Tohoku area with Youshun-in Expressway Bus Terminal Sanko Bus Sagae Office To Tendo City Sagae 32,000 of well-cared-for azaleas (nine species), which blossom in Flora SAGAE Sagae Chubu the mid-May. A romantic atmosphere is produced as the park is (Sagae City Museum) Tosadan Graveyard Nakayachi Takada Danchi Shogakuji Temple NTT Elementary School lit up at night during a certain period. (tomb of Kuwana warriors) site Shinzan Kawaraya inn Kannonji Temple Motomachi C-7 Shibahashi Area Public Hall (Otomo Kannon Mogami No. 15 Ofuda Office) ■Ninoseki-shinsui Park Sagae Kindergarten Honjuin Shibahashi Elementary School Chosei-en Having Mt. Gassan on its back, the shinsui park draws water Shukuryu-in Takada Lawson Sakae-cho from the fresh Sagae River. Within the area of 1.5km in length, Kannon-do Mototate there are rest houses, multi-purpose spaces, walk path, museum, Kumano Akiha Shrines Otomo waterwheels and aquarium. The park gives its visitors a warm Wakaba-cho Isokuji Temple (Big judas tree) Mogami River and relaxing time. Japanese cuisine / inn Joenji Temple Sagae Gas Jufukuji Kano-ya The site of Mototate Hall Temple Yamagata The site of a rich Park golf course Sagae Otani Fukuzumi-jinya Sachita-machi Shopping Center Shinkin Bank family's mansion Sagae SA Gatsugoe ■Mt. Hayama and Shimin-sou Hotel Town Kindergarten Yoshimoto Agriculture Land Mt. Hayama is known as a mountain for mountain worship where Ushimae-no-watashi people believed that the god of agriculture lives. Beech forests Honganji Temple Center House stretch out to the top of the mountain. Alpine plants like Ranzania IC accepting only ETC Yasuragi Valley

National Health Service Group Association Mizuki Takitamon Kannon Cherryna Sagae can be seen. Hayama Shimin-sou, located in the halfway up the

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Hotel Symphony Annex Yu-Cherry Mogami River Hirashio Bridge Foot spa mountain, is used as a hub for mountain climbing and forest Nishi Murayama Labor Hotel Sun Cherry Cherry Park Hotel Furusato Sogo Parｋ Dog run bathing. Welfare Hall Heartful inn Ichiryu Seseragi Foot Spa Cherry Kurpark Takaseyama Ancient Tomb A-3 Yamagata Skate park Furugae ■Sagae River and Garyu Bridge Sagae Taxi Forest Japanese cuisine / inn Sagae River, the source of which is located in a sacred mountain Control Station Fukuyoshi Takase Sagae Public Bath of Gassan and the Asahi Mountain Ranges, is known as a symbol Origin of Hirashio Oohashi Bridge of Sagae and famous for its streams that have salmons going upstream and many ayu fish. The bridge, built in 1827 as a draw Food Center Near Station Police Box bridge, was a check point of Rokujuri-goe Road. It was built in the Takaki Motomachi Store Hirashio current form of the beautiful arch-shaped concrete bridge in 1937. Sagae Branch of Yamagata Kumano Shrine(Bugaku) Shima This is an only bridge in the prefecture that has been registered Sagae Branch of Chuo Shinyokumiai Nambu Elementary School as one of the 100 most beautiful Japanese bridges. Sato Fabrics JA Sagae This comprehensive facility has a Nishi Murayama Chuo Taxi Sagae IC park golf course, hot springs, etc. ■Mogami River Furusato Sogo Parｋ G-6 Laying along the Mogami River that flows through the southern Saijin(Osaijin Festiva) Minami Sagae Sagae Mikoshi Hall part of the city, the park offers magnificent views of the Okuu Mountains that includes Gassan, Hayama and Zaou, with the Sagae Office of Yamagata theme of flowers, greens and the flow of a river. The park holds Nakayama-machi River National Road Work Office an event called "Yumetane @ Sagae" during a harvesting period Takaya Strawberry farm for cherries, which attracts many local people and tourists. Sagae Station Prefectural Housing Complex Dog Run Facility Skate Park Nambu area public hall Hotel Symphony Prefectural Gardening Bus Terminal The facility is located in the eastern side of The Biggest Concrete Park in Tohoku Testing Center Tohoku Lobour Bank Post office School Accommodations Mogami River Furu- The park holds sato Sogo Park. Dogs lectures on BMX Temple Shrine Historical site are allowed to run and and skateboard- Griver Sagae play without a leash ing as well as Convenience store Gas station (Mogami River under the supervision competitions. To Nakayama-machi / Yamanobe-machi Sagami Ryokuchi) To Yamagata City To Yamagata City of its owner. (A regis- tration is required for the use)