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Tadotsu Town
Kagawa Prefecture · Town
Official websiteKagawa Prefecture page
Tadotsu Town has long prospered as a hub of sea and land transportation, and Tadotsu Station is the starting point of the JR Dosan Line. It is the "birthplace of railways in Shikoku," where the first railway in Shikoku opened. The head temple of Shorinji Kempo is here, and offshore Sanagi Island is known as a cat island.
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
IslandSanagi Islandisland in Tadotsu, Kagawa, Japan
CastleAmagiri Castlecultural heritage site
Buddhist templeDoryu-ji TempleShingon temple in Nakatado District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, which is Temple 77 on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage
Buddhist templeKaigan-ji Templetemple in Tadotsu, Nakatado district, Kagawa prefecture, Japan
IslandTakami Islandisland in Kagawa, Japan
PortTadotsu Port
Buddhist templeButsumo-in TempleBuddhist temple of the Shingon-shū Daigo-ha sect dedicated to Vairocana in Tadotsu, Japan- CastleMotodaiyama Castle
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 town
- 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 Kagawa Prefecture
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