Kohoku Town

Saga Prefecture · Town

Kohoku Town is a rail junction where the Nagasaki Main Line and the Sasebo Line divide at Kohoku Station (formerly Hizen-Yamaguchi Station). It is the only town in the prefecture whose word for "town" is read "machi." It lies on a plain crossed by the Rokkaku and Ushizu rivers, and its two-row barley production ranks 9th in Japan.

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Population: 9,506 1,195th in Japan2025 Census
5-year change: −0.6% 1,520th in Japanfrom 9,566 in 2020
Area: 24.88 km² 1,509th in Japan
Population density: 382 people/km² 598th 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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