Yamatsuri is in the center of the town, and the Kuji River flows from north to south.

[2] Per Japanese census data,[3] the population of Yamatsuri has been declining over the past 60 years.

The area formed part of the holdings of Tanagura Domain, in the early Edo period, but mostly became tenryō territory under direct control of the Tokugawa Shogunate after 1729.

After the Meiji Restoration, it was organized as part of Higashishirakawa District within the Nakadōri region of Iwaki Province.

The villages of Toyosato, Takagi and Ishii were created with the establishment of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889.