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Shinjo City
Yamagata Prefecture · City
Official websiteYamagata Prefecture page
Shinjo City is in northeastern Yamagata Prefecture and is the central city of the Mogami area; in the Edo period it was the castle town of the Shinjo Domain of the Tozawa clan. It has some of the heaviest snowfall in Japan, and as the birthplace of a movement to relieve snow damage it has the Yukinosato Information Center. The city is the terminus of the Yamagata Shinkansen, and the Shinjo Festival in summer is also well known.
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.
Live information
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Places to visit
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Mountains in this city
Mountains whose summit is in this municipality (mountains of 800 m or higher on this site's map, and mountains in the famous-mountain lists). Elevations from Wikidata and other sources.
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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