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Ota City
Gunma Prefecture · City
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Ota City is known as the company town of SUBARU and is one of the leading manufacturing cities in the northern Kanto region. It is associated with Nitta Yoshisada, and from Mt. Kanayama, where the ruins of Kanayama Castle remain, visitors can see across the Kanto Plain.
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
CastleKanayama Castlebuilding in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Shinto shrineSerada Tosho-guShinto shrine in Ota, Japan
ZooJapan Snake Center
Burial mound (kofun)Ota Tenjin-yama Kofunkofun period burial mound in Japan
ParkOta Stadiumathletic stadium in Ota, Gunma, Japan
Shinto shrineIkushina ShrineShinto shrine in Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Buddhist templeDaiko-in TempleBuddhist temple of the Jōdo-shū sect dedicated to Amitābha Buddha in Ota, Japan
Buddhist templeMantoku-jiBuddhist temple in Gunma Prefecture, Japan
Roadside station (Michi-no-Eki)Michi-no-Eki Otaroadside station in Ota, Gunma prefecture, Japan
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).
Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Gunma Prefecture
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