The hillsides are brimming with lush green in the summer, amazing orange in the autumn, and covered in white snow during the winter.

Due to its location in the middle of the mountains, the temperature in Fujisato can get remarkably cold at night, with snowfall tending to be somewhat greater than that in neighboring municipalities.

The area of present-day Fujisato was part of ancient Dewa Province, dominated by the Satake clan during the Edo period, who ruled Kubota Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate.

Fujisato has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral town council of ten members.

Fujisato, together with the city of Noshiro and the other municipalities of Yamamoto District contributes four members to the Akita Prefectural Assembly.