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Maebashi is the capital city of Gunma Prefecture in Japan's northern Kantō region, lying at the foot of Mount Akagi on the Tone River and known as the City of Water, Greenery and Poets. Its top sights are Mount Akagi and Lake Ōnuma, the Rinkōkaku guest house, Shikishima Park and the burial mounds of Ōmuro Park.
Called Umayabashi in the Nara period after a bridge and a post-station stable on the Tōzan-dō road, the town took the name Maebashi in 1649, when it became the castle town of Maebashi Domain. It became a city on 1 April 1892, and air raids on 5 August 1945 destroyed about 64% of its urban core.
Maebashi covers 311.59 km² and had about 335,000 people in 2020. The Tone and Hirose rivers run through the city, and lying some 120 km from the sea, it is the farthest from the coast of all Japan's prefectural capitals. It is the hometown of the poet Sakutarō Hagiwara.
Rinkōkaku is a Meiji-era guest house in Maebashi, Japan, whose main building was finished in 1884 with donations from townspeople at the urging of governor Katori Motohiko. Its name means facing the river, and its main hall, annex and tea house are Important Cultural Properties.
Maebashi Tōshō-gū is a shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu in Maebashi, Japan, founded in 1624 by Matsudaira Naomoto in Echizen and moved by his clan, known as the wandering daimyō, at each new posting. Its present hall was built at Kawagoe and was rebuilt here in 1871 after the family returned to Maebashi.
Gunma Prefectural Government Building is the 33-storey, 154-metre seat of Gunma Prefecture in Maebashi, Japan, completed in 1999 on the site of Maebashi Castle. It has a 32nd-floor observation deck, and beside it stands the 1928 Shōwa Building, the old main office and a registered cultural property.
Arts Maebashi is the art museum of Maebashi, Japan, opened on 26 October 2013 to support the city's arts and culture. It fills a former Seiyu Livin store built in 1987 to a design by Sakakura Associates, with seven galleries over two floors, and its shop, café and archive are free to enter.
Mount Akagi is the stratovolcano rising above Maebashi, Japan, a ring of peaks led by Mount Kurobi around a summit caldera holding Lake Ōnuma. One of the Three Mountains of Jōmō and of Japan's 100 Famous Mountains, it has the second widest foothills in Japan after Mount Fuji.
Akagi Shrine stands on the Kotorigashima peninsula of Lake Ōnuma on Mount Akagi in Maebashi, Japan, worshipping the mountain and its lakes Ōnuma and Konuma as its sacred bodies. Also called Ōdō Akagi Shrine, it is one of the claimed head shrines of some 300 Akagi shrines across Japan.
Lake Ōnuma is the largest lake in the summit caldera of Mount Akagi in Maebashi, Japan, about 4 km around and 16.5 m at its deepest, ringed by Jizōdake and Mount Kurobi. It freezes from late December to early April and is known for winter ice fishing for wakasagi smelt.
Kakumanbuchi is a marsh at 1,360 m near the summit of Mount Akagi in Maebashi, Japan, 600 m southeast of Lake Ōnuma and nicknamed little Oze. Once a lake, it has skunk cabbage in spring, azaleas in June and autumn colours, and a boardwalk circles it in about 30 minutes from the visitor center.
Shikishima Park is a 37.6-hectare park in Maebashi, Japan, named in 1925 and chosen in 1989 as one of Japan's 100 best city parks. Its city-run half has a rose garden opened in 1971 and renewed in 2008, a boating pond and a silk museum, beside the prefecture's stadium and sports grounds.
Ōmuro Park is a historic park in Maebashi, Japan, laid out around the Ōmuro Kofun Cluster, a National Historic Site whose Maefutago Kofun was excavated as early as 1878. One of Japan's 100 best historic parks, it also has a chieftain's residence site and a late Edo farmhouse of the Akagi type.
Sōja Kofun Cluster is a group of burial mounds in the Sōja area of Maebashi, Japan, on the west bank of the Tone River at the foot of Mount Haruna. Built in the first half of the 7th century for the powerful families who ruled the region, five of its mounds became a National Historic Site in 2024.
Iwagami no Tobiishi is a giant volcanic boulder in the grounds of Iwagami Inari Shrine in Maebashi, Japan, about 70 m around and 10 m high, standing alone on flat ground in a residential area. Named the flying stone and worshipped as the shrine's sacred body, it became a Natural Monument in 1938.
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