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Kahoku Town
Yamagata Prefecture · Town
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Kahoku Town is near the center of Yamagata Prefecture and once prospered as a collection point for safflower carried by river transport on the Mogami River. It has a safflower museum and is known as "the home of hina dolls and safflower." Cold meat soba (buckwheat noodles) is a local specialty, and the town is also famous for table tennis. It is the only town in the prefecture whose name uses the reading "cho" for "town."
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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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