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Joso City
Ibaraki Prefecture · City
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Joso City is a farming and commercial city between the Kinu River and the Kokai River. Its center, the former town of Mitsukaido, was a riverside port town that prospered from boat transport on the Kinu River. Since the Ken-O Expressway (Metropolitan Inter-City Expressway) opened, the city has also been developing as a logistics base.
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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Places to visit
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Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Ibaraki Prefecture
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