After graduating from Chukyo University, he joined J1 League club Urawa Reds based in his local Saitama Prefecture in 2001.
He entered in the history of Japanese football for scoring in 2014 J2 League playoffs match against Júbilo Iwata.
In the 91st minute of the game, he headed the 1-1 from a corner kick:[4] a result which let Montedio go through to the final.
In 2015, although he played full-time in all 34 matches, Montedio finished at the bottom place and was relegated to J2 end of 2015 season.
After three seasons with Montedio, Yamagishi decided to move to Giravanz Kitakyushu, which just got relegated to J3 League.