Akashi City

Hyogo Prefecture · City

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Akashi City faces the Akashi Strait and is the "Meridian City," crossed by the 135° east longitude line that sets Japan Standard Time. The large clock of the Akashi Municipal Planetarium keeps standard time. It prospered as the castle town of Akashi Castle, and Akashi octopus and Akashi sea bream caught in the strait, and tamagoyaki (Akashiyaki egg dumplings) are specialties.

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Population: 306,587 79th in Japan2025 Census
5-year change: +1.0% 112th in Japanfrom 303,601 in 2020
Area: 49.41 km² 1,292nd in Japan
Population density: 6,205 people/km² 76th 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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