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Maizuru City
Kyoto Prefecture · City
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Maizuru City faces Maizuru Bay, shaped like the character for "person," at the back of Wakasa Bay. It has two faces: West Maizuru, a castle town, and East Maizuru, which developed as a naval port. A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force base is here, and the red brick warehouses and the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum tell its history. It also claims to be the birthplace of nikujaga (meat and potato stew).
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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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