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Aizubange Town
Fukushima Prefecture · Town
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Aizubange Town is in the western Aizu Basin and has long prospered as a key point on the Echigo Kaido road and as a market town for trade. On its flat land of rice paddies stand Eryu-ji Temple, known as Tachiki Kannon, and Kokoroshimizu Hachiman Shrine, and its food culture, such as basashi (raw horse meat), is also well known.
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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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