Yaizu City

Shizuoka Prefecture · City

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Yaizu City is a port town on the Shida Plain facing Suruga Bay. Yaizu Fishing Port is known as a base for deep-sea bonito and tuna fishing, and its landing value in 2020 ranked 1st in Japan. Processed seafood such as black hanpen (fish cake) and namaribushi (boiled bonito) are specialties, and the city has a memorial museum of Koizumi Yakumo (Lafcadio Hearn), who had close ties with it.

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Population: 130,848 208th in Japan2025 Census
5-year change: −4.4% 1,156th in Japanfrom 136,845 in 2020
Area: 70.30 km² 1,144th in Japan
Population density: 1,861 people/km² 229th in Japan

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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