Amagasaki City

Hyogo Prefecture · City

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Amagasaki City is in the Hanshin area, bordering Osaka City, and its telephone area code is "06," the same as Osaka. It grew from the castle town of the Amagasaki Domain into an industrial city of the Hanshin Industrial Zone and is now a mix of housing and factories. It has the rebuilt keep of Amagasaki Castle and the Yayoi-period Tano Site.

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Population: 457,195 43rd in Japan2025 Census
5-year change: −0.5% 1,531st in Japanfrom 459,593 in 2020
Area: 50.70 km² 1,284th in Japan
Population density: 9,018 people/km² 43rd 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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