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Setouchi City
Okayama Prefecture · City
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Setouchi City is east of Okayama City and faces the Seto Inland Sea. The former Ushimado Town is known as the "Aegean Sea of Japan" for its scenery of many islands, and it has olive gardens and Honren-ji Temple. The Osafune district is known as the home of Bizen swords, famous blades made since the Kamakura period.
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
IslandNagashimaisland in Okayama, Japan
IslandMaejimaisland in Okayama, Japan
MuseumBizen Osafune Sword Museummuseum in Setouchi, Okayama, Japan%2C%20keidai.jpg?width=240)
Buddhist templeHonren-ji TempleBuddhist temple in Setouchi, Japan
IslandKuroshimaisland in Setouchi, Japan
Buddhist templeYokei-ji TempleBuddhist temple dedicated to Thousand-Armed Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteśvara in Setouchi, Japan
GardenUshimado Olive Garden
BayKinkai Bay
Roadside station (Michi-no-Eki)Michi-no-Eki Ipponmatsu-Temboenroadside station in Setouchi, Okayama prefecture, Japan
Roadside station (Michi-no-Eki)Michi-no-Eki Kuroisan Green parkroadside station in Setouchi, Okayama prefecture, Japan
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).
National parks in this city
- Setonaikai National ParkTotal park area 673 km²Spans Hyogo, Wakayama, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, Oita
Chosen by overlaying the park boundaries (Ministry of the Environment, Biodiversity Center of Japan, "National Park Areas" GIS data, updated April 28, 2025, combined and simplified by NIPPON ATLAS) with municipal boundaries (National Land Numerical Information, January 2021), keeping overlaps of about 0.5 km² or more (approximate). Areas are the land areas from the Ministry of the Environment, "Overview of National Parks" (April 10, 2026). All national parks
Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Okayama Prefecture
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