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Sakata City
Yamagata Prefecture · City
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Sakata City is a port city in the northern Shonai region at the mouth of the Mogami River, and it has the Port of Sakata, the only major port in the prefecture. It prospered as a port of call for the kitamaebune (merchant ships of the Sea of Japan), and the Sankyo Warehouses used for storing rice and the Homma Museum of Art, linked to the wealthy Homma merchant family, remain. The Ken Domon Museum of Photography and Tobishima Island offshore are also attractions.
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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Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Yamagata Prefecture
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