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Suwa City
Nagano Prefecture · City
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Suwa City spreads along the east shore of Lake Suwa and is a tourist city with the Kamisha Honmiya of Suwa Taisha shrine, Kami-Suwa Onsen and the Kirigamine Highlands. Its precision industries, such as watches and cameras, earned it the name "Switzerland of the East," and Seiko Epson has its head office here. Sake breweries such as Masumi gather here, and Takashima Castle is also a highlight.
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
Current weather (observed)
Places to visit
Chosen automatically, most popular first, from landmarks and cultural properties registered in Wikidata (we have not checked whether each is open). Names and descriptions: Wikidata (CC0); photos: Wikimedia Commons (photographer and license under each photo).
Mountains in this city
Mountains whose summit is in this municipality (mountains of 800 m or higher on this site's map, and mountains in the famous-mountain lists). Elevations from Wikidata and other sources.
Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Nagano Prefecture
- Nagano City
- Matsumoto City
- Ueda City
- Okaya City
- Iida City
- Suzaka City
- Komoro City
- Ina City, Nagano
- Komagane City
- Nakano City, Nagano
- Omachi City, Nagano
- Iiyama City
- Chino City
- Shiojiri City
- Saku City
- Chikuma City
- Tomi City
- Azumino City
- Koumi Town
- Kawakami Village, Nagano
- Minamimaki Village
- Minamiaiki Village
- Kitaaiki Village
- Sakuho Town
- Karuizawa Town
- Miyota Town
- Tateshina Town
- Aoki Village
- Nagawa Town
- Shimosuwa Town
- Fujimi Town, Nagano
- Hara Village
- Tatsuno Town, Nagano
- Minowa Town
- Iijima Town
- Minamiminowa Village
- Nakagawa Village, Nagano
- Miyada Village
- Matsukawa Town, Nagano
- Takamori Town, Nagano
- Anan Town, Nagano
- Achi Village
- Hiraya Village
- Neba Village
- Shimojo Village
- Urugi Village
- Tenryu Village
- Yasuoka Village
- Takagi Village
- Toyooka Village, Nagano
- Oshika Village
- Agematsu Town
- Nagiso Town
- Kiso Village, Nagano
- Otaki Village, Nagano
- Okuwa Village
- Kiso Town, Nagano
- Omi Village
- Ikusaka Village
- Yamagata Village, Nagano
- Asahi Village, Nagano
- Chikuhoku Village
- Ikeda Town, Nagano
- Matsukawa Village, Nagano
- Hakuba Village
- Otari Village
- Sakaki Town
- Obuse Town
- Takayama Village, Nagano
- Yamanouchi Town
- Kijimadaira Village
- Nozawaonsen Village
- Shinano Town
- Ogawa Village, Nagano
- Iizuna Town
- Sakae Village, Nagano
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