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Tamba-Sasayama City
Hyogo Prefecture · City
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Tamba-Sasayama City is a castle town in the Sasayama Basin, where samurai residences and merchant houses remain around the ruins of Sasayama Castle. Black soybeans and yams, grown in the "Tanba fog" of autumn and winter, are specialties, and botan-nabe (wild boar hot pot) is also famous. It is known for the village of Tamba ware, one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns, and the Dekansho Festival.
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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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Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Hyogo Prefecture
- Kobe City
- Himeji City
- Amagasaki City
- Akashi City
- Nishinomiya City
- Sumoto City
- Ashiya City, Hyogo
- Itami City
- Aioi City
- Toyooka City, Hyogo
- Kakogawa City
- Ako City
- Nishiwaki City
- Takarazuka City
- Miki City, Hyogo
- Takasago City
- Kawanishi City, Hyogo
- Ono City, Hyogo
- Sanda City
- Kasai City
- Yabu City
- Tamba City
- Minami-Awaji City
- Asago City
- Awaji City
- Shiso City
- Kato City
- Tatsuno City, Hyogo
- Inagawa Town
- Taka Town
- Inami Town, Hyogo
- Harima Town
- Ichikawa Town, Hyogo
- Fukusaki Town
- Kamikawa Town, Hyogo
- Taishi Town, Hyogo
- Kamigori Town
- Sayo Town
- Kami Town, Hyogo
- Shin'onsen Town
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