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Hachinohe City
Aomori Prefecture · City
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Hachinohe City is the main city of the Nanbu region of Aomori Prefecture, and its Port of Hachinohe is an industrial, fishing and ferry port. Specialties include the Enburi folk performance, an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, the Hachinohe Sansha Taisai festival, senbei-jiru (soup with rice crackers) and ichigo-ni (sea urchin and abalone soup). Sights include Kabushima Island, a breeding ground for black-tailed gulls, the Tanesashi Coast and the Gassho Dogu, a clay figurine that is a National Treasure.
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 city
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 Aomori Prefecture
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