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Mifune Town
Kumamoto Prefecture · Town
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Mifune Town borders Kumamoto City to the southeast. Mifuneryu, the first fossil of a carnivorous dinosaur found in Japan, was discovered here, and the town calls itself a "dinosaur village." It has the Mifune Dinosaur Museum and many historic sites of battles from the Nanboku-cho period (the era of two rival imperial courts) to the Satsuma Rebellion.
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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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Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Kumamoto Prefecture
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