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Nikaho City
Akita Prefecture · City
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Nikaho City lies at the foot of Mt. Chokai and faces the Sea of Japan. It is the only city in the prefecture whose name is written in hiragana. Kisakata, which Matsuo Basho visited in "The Narrow Road to the Deep North," is a scenic spot where small islands float in rice paddies on the site of a former lagoon raised by an earthquake. The city is the hometown of the Antarctic explorer Shirase Nobu and has a memorial museum to him.
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 Akita Prefecture
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