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Oiso Town
Kanagawa Prefecture · Town
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Oiso Town is a town in the Shonan area where important figures in politics and business, such as Ito Hirobumi and Yoshida Shigeru, built villas in the Meiji era. Terugasaki Beach, said to be the first swimming beach in Japan, and the pine-lined avenue of the old Tokaido highway remain here.
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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Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Kanagawa Prefecture
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