Miyazaki Prefecture

Kyushu & Okinawa region · Prefecture

Miyazaki Prefecture has long hours of sunshine and calls itself "Hinata (sunny place) of Japan." It is rich in foods such as mangoes, hyuganatsu citrus, Miyazaki beef and jidori (local chicken), and it is a familiar spring camp site for pro baseball. It is also the land of the Tenson Korin myth (the descent of the sun goddess's grandson from heaven).

Hinata of Japan
Mangoes
Chicken nanban
Takachiho, a land of myths

Key facts

Prefectural capital: Miyazaki City
Municipalities: 26 (9 cities, 14 towns, 3 villages)
Population: 1,017,628 35th in Japan2025 Census
5-year change: −4.9% 17th in Japanfrom 1,069,576 in 2020
Area: 7,734 km² 14th in Japan
Population density: 132 people/km² 39th 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 47 prefectures, ordered by this site from these values.

Places to know

Miyazaki City Aoshima, with its tropical atmosphere, and the "Devil's Washboard" rocks.
Takachiho Town Takachiho Gorge and yokagura (sacred dances performed at night).
Nichinan City The castle town of Obi and Udo Jingu, a shrine on a cliff.

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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 Miyazaki Prefecture

Kirishima-Kinkowan National ParkTotal park area 366 km²Also in Kagoshima

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

Municipalities in Miyazaki Prefecture (26)

Municipality	Population	5-year change	Area
Miyazaki City	389,588	−2.9%	644 km²
Miyakonojo City	159,699	−0.6%	653 km²
Nobeoka City	109,504	−7.5%	868 km²
Nichinan City	45,850	−9.8%	535 km²
Kobayashi City	40,003	−8.4%	563 km²
Hyuga City	56,040	−6.0%	337 km²
Kushima City	14,772	−12.2%	295 km²
Saito City	26,565	−7.1%	439 km²
Ebino City	15,597	−11.6%	283 km²
Mimata Town	24,964	−2.5%	110 km²
Takaharu Town	7,689	−11.0%	85.39 km²
Kunitomi Town	17,531	−4.7%	131 km²
Aya Town	6,497	−6.3%	95.19 km²
Takanabe Town	18,662	−6.3%	43.80 km²
Shintomi Town	15,782	−4.7%	61.48 km²
Nishimera Village	894	−10.6%	272 km²
Kijo Town	4,465	−8.8%	146 km²
Kawaminami Town	14,025	−7.7%	90.13 km²
Tsuno Town	9,344	−5.7%	102 km²
Kadogawa Town	16,137	−7.1%	120 km²
Morotsuka Village	1,260	−15.2%	188 km²
Shiiba Village	2,176	−13.1%	537 km²
Misato Town	4,092	−15.2%	449 km²
Takachiho Town	10,366	−11.0%	238 km²
Hinokage Town	3,115	−14.3%	278 km²
Gokase Town	3,011	−13.3%	172 km²

Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2025 Population Census (population in 2025; change compared with 2020). Area: GSI (2025). Designated cities are shown as one city (wards combined). "Temperature now" is the latest JMA AMeDAS observation (preliminary) at the nearest station in the same prefecture, loaded and shown unchanged when you open the page.

Figures come from official Japanese statistics (such as the 2025 Census by the Statistics Bureau of Japan), with the source and year shown next to each one. Photos are freely licensed images from Wikimedia Commons; the photographer and license are shown under each photo.

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