Kuzumaki Town

Iwate Prefecture · Town

Kuzumaki Town is a mountain town in the northeastern Kitakami Highlands, and forests cover 86% of the town. Dairy farming and forestry are its key industries. It calls itself "the town of milk, wine and clean energy" and also works on wind power. In the Edo period it prospered as a shukuba (post town) on the Noda Kaido, a road used to carry salt.

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Population: 4,874 1,424th in Japan2025 Census
5-year change: −13.5% 154th in Japanfrom 5,634 in 2020
Area: 435 km² 254th in Japan
Population density: 11 people/km² 1,611th in Japan

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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