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Moriyama City
Shiga Prefecture · City
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Moriyama City spreads over a delta formed by the Yasu River on the east shore of Lake Biwa. It was a post town on the Nakasendo road, as in the saying "leave Kyoto, stay at Moriyama," and old houses remain along the old road. It has the Ise Site, a Yayoi-period settlement, and the Sagawa Art Museum by the lake, and Lake Biwa Bridge links it to Katata on the opposite shore.
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 Shiga Prefecture
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