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Taketomi Town
Okinawa Prefecture · Town
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Taketomi Town consists of nine inhabited islands of the Yaeyama Islands, including Iriomote Island, Taketomi Island, and Hateruma Island, and it is the southernmost town in Japan. Iriomote Island is a World Natural Heritage Site and is home to the Iriomote cat. The red-tiled village on Taketomi Island and Hateruma Island, the southernmost inhabited island in Japan, are well known.
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
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National parks in this town
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
Other municipalities in Okinawa Prefecture
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