Choose wisely. Connect locally.Add your business 
Sagamihara is a designated city in northern Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, reaching from the Sagamihara Plateau into the Tanzawa Mountains, famous for its reservoir lakes and for JAXA's space science campus. Its top sights are Lake Sagami, Lake Tsukui, Mount Sekirō, JAXA Sagamihara Campus and the Katsusaka Site.
From the 1930s army facilities such as the Sagami Army Arsenal and the Army Academy moved onto its cheap, open land, and after the war many became US Army sites. Land later returned became parks, schools and the JAXA campus. Sagamihara became a city in 1954, passed 700,000 people through mergers in 2007 and became a designated city with three wards in 2010.
The city covers 328.91 km² and had an estimated 723,470 people in 2021, the third largest in Kanagawa after Yokohama and Kawasaki. Each May a giant kite 14.4 metres square flies in the Araiso district, and Hashimoto is planned to get a station on the Chūō Shinkansen maglev line.
Lake Sagami is a reservoir on the Sagami River in Midori-ku, Sagamihara, Japan, formed by the Sagami Dam, completed in 1947 as the country's first post-war dam lake. It hosted the canoe events of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, offers swan boats and cruises, and holds a fireworks festival every 1 August.
Lake Tsukui is the reservoir behind the 75 m Shiroyama Dam on the Sagami River in Midori-ku, Sagamihara, Japan, completed in 1965. National Route 413 runs across the dam crest, rowing boats are for hire, and Tsukui-ko Shiroyama Park nearby has a memorial to the 13 workers who died building it.
Lake Miyagase is the reservoir of the Miyagase Dam on the Nakatsu River, shared by Midori-ku in Sagamihara, Aikawa and Kiyokawa in Kanagawa, Japan. Formed in 1998 and named one of Japan's 100 best dam lakes, it has sightseeing boats, an incline car at the dam and a fir tree lit up each December.
Tsukui Castle was a mountain castle on 375 m Mount Shiroyama above Lake Tsukui in Midori-ku, Sagamihara, Japan, held by the Later Hōjō as a front line against the Takeda. It surrendered to Tokugawa forces in 1590, and its moats, pond and retainers' residence sites lie in Tsukui-ko Shiroyama Park.
Mount Sekirō is a peak of about 702 m on the south shore of Lake Sagami in Midori-ku, Sagamihara, Japan, known for the giant conglomerate boulders that line its trails. One of the Kantō 100 Famous Mountains, it looks down on Lake Sagami, and the temple Kenkyō-ji stands on its slopes.
Kenkyō-ji is a Kōyasan Shingon temple on the slopes of Mount Sekirō in Midori-ku, Sagamihara, Japan, said to have been founded by the monk Genkai in 876. Caves where its founders are said to have lived open by the gate, beside a ginkgo over 400 years old and a cedar with snake-like roots.
Obara-juku Honjin is the main inn of Obara-juku, the ninth post town on the Kōshū Kaidō, in Midori-ku, Sagamihara, Japan. Built in the early 19th century, it is the only honjin building left standing in Kanagawa, and a daimyo procession fills the old road at its festival each 3 November.
Katsusaka Site is a Middle Jōmon village site of about 5,000 years ago in Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Japan, found in 1926 and a National Historic Site since 1974. It gave its name to Katsusaka-style pottery with face-shaped handles, and the site is now laid out as the Katsusaka Site Park.
Sagamigawa Fureai Science Museum is a city-run aquarium in Suigō-Tana, Chūō-ku, Sagamihara, Japan, showing the fish of the Sagami River from source to sea. It has a flowing-river aquarium, spring and stream tanks, a touch pool and a Sagami Bay tank, and is one of Kanagawa's 50 selected museums.
JAXA Sagamihara Campus in Chūō-ku, Sagamihara, Japan, is home to the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, the centre of Japan's scientific satellites and probes. It controls deep-space missions, handles samples returned from asteroids and has a space science exhibition hall.
Sagamihara City Museum opened in 1995 in Chūō-ku, Sagamihara, Japan, beside JAXA's campus, with free galleries on local nature and history from the Palaeolithic onward and a planetarium. It showed the Hayabusa capsule in 2010 and the capsule that returned samples from asteroid Ryugu in 2021.
Sagamihara Asamizo Park is a city park in Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Japan, opened in 1985 beside the prefectural Sagamihara Park, the two together covering 47.3 hectares. Families come for its free petting zoo, field athletics course and large flower beds, and the Green Tower Sagamihara gives views.
No reviews yet. Been to Sagamihara? Be the first to share your experience.
Share what you loved, what to skip and tips for other travelers.
Log in to write a reviewBeen to Sagamihara? Add your best shots to the gallery.
Log in to add photosPhoto: Raita Futo, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Photo: Σ64, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Photo: Σ64, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Photo: Kestrel, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Σ64, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Photo: Σ64, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Σ64, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Photo: Σ64, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Photo: Σ64, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Koda6029, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Koda6029, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Photo: Σ64, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Σ64, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Photo: Σ64, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Σ64, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: ブルーノ・プラス, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
Photo: ブルーノ・プラス, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
Photo: Hkusano, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: 小林俊通, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: 小池 隆, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Photo: 小池 隆, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Photo: 小池 隆, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Photo: 挾間雅行, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Tnk4a, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo: Nmspec, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Kestrel, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Abasaa, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Photo: Y Sekiai, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: Y Sekiai, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Every honest review and real photo earns points. Collect 100 and you're in the draw.
No purchase necessary. US residents 18+. Official rules
