Nakatosa Town

Kochi Prefecture · Town

Nakatosa Town faces Tosa Bay, and its center, Kure, is known for pole-and-line bonito fishing and was the setting of the manga "Tosa no Ipponzuri." Fresh seafood is sold at the Kure Taisho-machi Market. The town has Kure-hachimangu shrine and the Nakatosa Town Art Museum, and inland Onomi is a mountain village along the Shimanto River.

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Population: 5,298 1,405th in Japan2025 Census
5-year change: −11.7% 285th in Japanfrom 6,002 in 2020
Area: 193 km² 649th in Japan
Population density: 27 people/km² 1,450th 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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