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Takizawa City
Iwate Prefecture · City
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Takizawa City lies on the northwest side of Morioka City and includes the wide foothills of Mt. Iwate. Its population grew as a commuter town for Morioka, and for a long time it was "the most populous village in Japan," but it became a city in 2014. It has Onikoshi Sozen Shrine, the starting point of the early-summer festival "Chagu Chagu Umakko."
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.
Live information
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Places to visit
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National parks in this city
Chosen by overlaying the park boundaries (Ministry of the Environment, Biodiversity Center of Japan, "National Park Areas" GIS data, updated April 28, 2025, combined and simplified by NIPPON ATLAS) with municipal boundaries (National Land Numerical Information, January 2021), keeping overlaps of about 0.5 km² or more (approximate). Areas are the land areas from the Ministry of the Environment, "Overview of National Parks" (April 10, 2026). All national parks
Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Iwate Prefecture
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