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Misawa City
Aomori Prefecture · City
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Misawa City has the U.S. Forces Japan Misawa Air Base and a Japan Air Self-Defense Force base, and it is an international city where many Americans live. It has the Misawa Aviation & Science Museum and a memorial museum for Terayama Shuji, whose hometown was here. The Hotokenuma wetland, where wild birds gather, spreads out in the city, and Misawa also produces carrots and daikon radishes.
Key facts
Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2025 Population Census (population, area and density); area from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI), Area Statistics of Prefectures and Municipalities (2025). National ranks are among the 1,741 municipalities, ordered by this site from these values.
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Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Aomori Prefecture
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