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Asago City
Hyogo Prefecture · City
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Asago City is a transport hub at the southern end of the Tajima region and has the ruins of Takeda Castle, called the "Machu Picchu of Japan" for the way it floats above a sea of clouds. The Ikuno Mine, where full-scale mining began in the Warring States period and which prospered as direct shogunate land in the Edo period, and the Mikobata Cast Iron Bridge, telling mining history, remain.
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.
Live information
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Places to visit
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).
Mountains in this city
Mountains whose summit is in this municipality (mountains of 800 m or higher on this site's map, and mountains in the famous-mountain lists). Elevations from Wikidata and other sources.
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
- Tamba-Sasayama City
- Yabu City
- Tamba City
- Minami-Awaji 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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