Soja City is a town spread across the area where the Takahashi River emerges onto the plain, just north of Kurashiki City.
It is said to have been the center of the ancient province of Kibi. Burial mounds large and small, along with the five-story pagoda of Bichu Kokubun-ji Temple, remain amid the rural scenery of Kibiji. The ruins of Kinojo Castle, the setting for the legend of Ura, which is also said to have inspired the Momotaro legend, are here, and the area is also known as the birthplace of the painter-monk Sesshu.
