Nakagawa, Nan'yō, Yamagata
Nakagawa is a district in the city of Nan'yō, Yamagata, Japan. The two kanji characters that form the name "nakagawa" mean "inside" or "medium" and "river".
Nakagawa was the site of a quarry, and today its most Important Cultural Property is the 33 Images of Guanyin carved on the south face of Mount Iwabu. These Kannon images were created in the Edo period. The Yoshida Bridge was built in 1880 on the orders of the first governor of Yamagata Prefecture, and is preserved as an example of efforts to improve communications in the prefecture in its early history.