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Yoshitomi Town
Fukuoka Prefecture · Town
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Yoshitomi Town is at the eastern tip of Fukuoka Prefecture and borders Nakatsu City in Oita Prefecture across the Yamakuni River. It is the municipality with the smallest area in Kyushu. The town grew as a company town of Yoshitomi Pharmaceutical. Hachiman Kohyo Shrine preserves a kugutsu puppet dance in which puppets perform sumo wrestling.
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.
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Neighboring municipalities
Municipalities sharing a boundary (computed from the National Land Numerical Information administrative boundaries, January 2021).
Other municipalities in Fukuoka Prefecture
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