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Moving to Mishima
From Mishima Station to Tokyo Station it is 54 minutes on a single Tokaido Shinkansen Kodama service, with no change. There are 46 Shinkansen departures a day towards Tokyo (40 Kodama and 6 Hikari), the first at 6:17. Shinagawa is 46 minutes away and Nagoya 1 hour 37 minutes. The population is 103,790 and the city covers 62.02 square kilometres.
🔴 And what Mishima is best known for is water. In the city's own words: “Mishima's spring water is a gift from Mount Fuji. Rain and snow that falls around Mount Fuji seeps underground and comes up again inside Mishima.” — the Genbei River, which runs through the town centre, is on the Ministry of the Environment's list of Japan's 100 finest waters of the Heisei era, and fireflies appear in early summer. In Daito Kentaku's “Town Liveability Ranking 2026 (Shizuoka edition)” Mishima came 2nd in the prefecture.
Population
103,790 people
50,052 households, Reiwa 7 (2025), 12/31as of
Homes for sale
111 listings
¥7,000,000– / median ¥24,500,000
To Tokyo
54 min
Shinkansen Kodama • 0 changes • ¥4,070
To Shinagawa
46 min
0 changes • ¥4,070
Residential land price
¥100,600/m²
+0.3% year on year / 2nd of the 23 cities in Shizuoka
Medical costs for children
free to age 18
Outpatient care, inpatient care and hospital meals
CHAPTER 01First of all, what kind of place is Mishima?
It is the eastern edge of Shizuoka Prefecture. In the city's own words: “It is the eastern end of what is called the Tokai region; cross Hakone and you are in the Kanto region.” “It prospered long ago as a post town on the Tokaido and as the temple town of Mishima Taisha Shrine, and today it sits where National Route 1 crosses National Route 136, which runs into the middle of Izu.” And: “Mishima is entirely inside the Kanto living sphere centred on Tokyo (under the National Capital Region Development Act, Mishima is the western edge of the 100 km radius).” The city covers 62.02 square kilometres, 11.107 kilometres east to west and 13.242 kilometres north to south, and the city hall stands at 138 degrees 55 minutes east, 35 degrees 07 minutes north, 24.9 metres above sea level. Within the city, the lowest point is about 6 metres at Nagabuse and the highest is 941.5 metres at Kainodaira — a difference of 935 metres inside one city.
Lava from 10,000 years ago is what makes the water of todayFrom the city museum's account: “In the eruption of Mount Fuji about 10,000 years ago, lava flowed all the way to what is now central Mishima. This is called the Mishima lava flow. Meltwater from Mount Fuji travels through the gaps in this lava and comes up in Mishima, which is why Mishima has been a city of water, blessed with abundant springs.”The ground of the town centre itself is made of Mount Fuji's lava. That is why water rises in the middle of the city. The Hasunuma River, the Genbei River, the Goten River, the Sakura River, the Shinomiya River — the water that comes up flows through the centre of the city as several rivers.
The Genbei River is on the Ministry of the Environment's list of Japan's 100 finest waters of the Heisei eraFrom the Ministry's citation: “An irrigation channel 1.5 km long that rises at Obama Pond in Rakujuen Garden, a nationally designated place of scenic beauty, and runs clear through the town centre of the ‘city of water, Mishima’. Dedicated conservation work is carried out jointly by residents, businesses and the city, and Mishima baikamo water crowfoot and genji fireflies appear here.”
The origin of the name is recorded too: “In the Warring States period, Terao Genbei, the deputy governor of Izu, cut an irrigation channel from the Hirose (Shinomiya River) that flows out of Obama Pond, to irrigate the rice fields. The channel is said to have taken the name of the man who made it, and became the ‘Genbei River’.”“Until recent years people washed things in it, and floated tin tubs in it with fish and vegetables inside to keep them cool — a natural refrigerator.” — it was a river people used every day. The city's rivers are cleaned on the second Saturday of May every year, there is a “Rubbish-picking Tour” on the first Saturday of every month, and a “Zero Rubbish Campaign” in October.
There is 34,000 years of history hereFrom the city museum: “Traces of human life within Mishima go back about 34,000 years, to the late Palaeolithic. At first people hunted and gathered on the western foot of Mount Hakone, but by the Yayoi period rice growing had begun on the plain. Later the town became the provincial capital of Izu Province, and the temple town of Mishima Taisha Shrine, and so the political and economic centre of this region.”“Mishima was a crossroads: the Tokaido ran east and west, the Koshu road went north and the Shimoda road went south, and fine culture such as the Mishima calendar was born here. In the Edo period it bustled with travellers as the post town just west of the Hakone Hachiri, the hardest stretch of the whole Tokaido.”The city was incorporated on 29 April 1941, and marked its 85th anniversary in Reiwa 8 (2026).
The city flower is the Mishima cherry, the tree the ginkgo and the bird the kingfisherFrom the 5th Mishima City Comprehensive Plan: the city flower, the Mishima cherry, came about because “in 1951 the National Institute of Genetics collected seed as one way of finding out the origins of the Somei-Yoshino cherry, and carried out its first seedling experiment. Among the trees that grew and flowered was one beautiful cherry.” The city tree, the ginkgo, is there because “the ginkgo avenue in Bunkyo-cho, where the educational and cultural facilities are, is the best example: more than a hundred trees rise high along about 800 metres of both sides of the street, and they stand for Mishima as a city of learning.”
The city bird, the kingfisher, was chosen in 2001 to mark the city's 60th anniversary as “a beautiful bird that can be seen not only in clear streams outside the town but also at the water's edge inside it, at the Genbei River and Kiyozumi Ryokuchi”. The city crest “represents the crest of Mishima Shrine together with Mount Fuji; the three lines in the centre are a variation on the ‘three’ of Mishima and stand for its clear streams.”
Sources: the location is from Mishima City, “The location of Mishima” (updated 5 February 2026 / city hall at 138 degrees 55 minutes east, 35 degrees 6 minutes north, 24.9 m above sea level / “It is the eastern end of what is called the Tokai region; cross Hakone and you are in the Kanto region.” “It prospered long ago as a post town on the Tokaido and as the temple town of Mishima Taisha Shrine, and today it sits where National Route 1 crosses National Route 136, which runs into the middle of Izu.” “Mishima is entirely inside the Kanto living sphere centred on Tokyo (under the National Capital Region Development Act, Mishima is the western edge of the 100 km radius).” / source: Mishima City Education Research Association, “Mishima”) / area and elevation from the same city, “Mishima Statistics 2026”, section “A Land and Climate” (Excel: total area 62.02 km² / 11.107 km east to west / 13.242 km north to south / highest point 941.5 m (Kainodaira), lowest point about 6 m (Nagabuse), Mishima City Hall 24.9 m / 1 April 1935 Kitaue Village merged in, 34.77 km²; 29 April 1941 Nishikida Village merged in and city status granted, 53.60 km²; 31 March 1954 Nakazato Village merged in, 61.81 km²; 6 March 2015, 62.02 km² (published by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, as of 1 October 2014)) / history from the same city, “An introduction to the history of Mishima” (updated 5 February 2026 / “Traces of human life within Mishima go back about 34,000 years, to the late Palaeolithic.” “Mishima was a crossroads: the Tokaido ran east and west, the Koshu road went north and the Shimoda road went south, and fine culture such as the Mishima calendar was born here.” “In the eruption of Mount Fuji about 10,000 years ago, lava flowed all the way to what is now central Mishima. This is called the Mishima lava flow.”) / the spring water from the same city, “Mishima, city of water” (“Mishima's spring water is a gift from Mount Fuji. Rain and snow that falls around Mount Fuji seeps underground and comes up again inside Mishima.”) and Ministry of the Environment, “Japan's 100 finest waters of the Heisei era: the Genbei River” (“An irrigation channel 1.5 km long that rises at Obama Pond in Rakujuen Garden, a nationally designated place of scenic beauty, and runs clear through the town centre of the ‘city of water, Mishima’.” “In the Warring States period, Terao Genbei, the deputy governor of Izu, cut an irrigation channel from the Hirose (Shinomiya River) that flows out of Obama Pond, to irrigate the rice fields.” “Until recent years people washed things in it, and floated tin tubs in it with fish and vegetables inside to keep them cool — a natural refrigerator.” / the city's rivers are cleaned on the second Saturday of May every year; a “Rubbish-picking Tour” on the first Saturday of every month; a “Zero Rubbish Campaign” in October) / the city flower, tree, bird, crest and 85th anniversary from the same city, “5th Mishima City Comprehensive Plan, latter-term basic plan” (PDF, March 2026) / the liveability ranking from the same city, “Mishima came 2nd in the Town Liveability Ranking 2026 (Shizuoka edition)” (updated 5 February 2026 / Daito Kentaku Co., Ltd., “Town Liveability and Most Desirable Places to Live Ranking 2026 (Shizuoka edition)” / 22,939 men and women aged 20 and over living in Shizuoka Prefecture, 2022 to 2026 combined) / checked 2026-08-24
What kind of town is Mishima City?
It is the eastern edge of Shizuoka Prefecture. In the city's own words: “It is the eastern end of what is called the Tokai region; cross Hakone and you are in the Kanto region.” “It prospered long ago as a post town on the Tokaido and as the temple town of Mishima Taisha Shrine.” And: “Mishima is entirely inside the Kanto living sphere centred on Tokyo (under the National Capital Region Development Act, Mishima is the western edge of the 100 km radius).” The population is 103,790 in 50,052 households (as of 31 December Reiwa 7), and the city covers 62.02 square kilometres, 11.107 kilometres east to west and 13.242 kilometres north to south. 🔴 What stands out most is the water — in the city's own words: “In the eruption of Mount Fuji about 10,000 years ago, lava flowed all the way to what is now central Mishima. This is called the Mishima lava flow. Meltwater from Mount Fuji travels through the gaps in this lava and comes up in Mishima, which is why Mishima has been a city of water, blessed with abundant springs.”The Genbei River, which runs through the town centre, is on the Ministry of the Environment's list of Japan's 100 finest waters of the Heisei era.
CHAPTER 02Four areas, and life in each
Mishima City uses four divisions in its own statistics — the old town, Kitaue district, Nishikida district and Nakazato district. This page uses the same four (as of 31 December Reiwa 7, Japanese nationals). The old town 16,394 households and 31,503 people / Kitaue district 12,339 households and 25,578 people / Nishikida district 9,672 households and 20,070 people / Nakazato district 11,647 households and 24,895 people. The biggest difference between them is elevation — the median elevation of the houses for sale is 17.3 metres in Nakazato, 19.5 metres in the old town, 55.1 metres in Nishikida and 89.4 metres in Kitaue. Living on the flat or living up the hill is what separates the four districts.
District
listings
median
What it is like (elevation and nearest station)
Kitaue district Tokura, Sano, Hikarigaoka, Fuyodai
43 listings 700–¥47,800,000
¥23,800,000
Elevation 54.9 to 261.2 metres (median 89.4). The highest housing in the city. The nearest station is Mishima for 23 properties and Nagaizumi-Nameri for 19. 10 houses (23%) date from before 1981, so there are many older homes, and the cheapest at ¥7,000,000 is here too
Nakazato district Daiba, Umena, Nagabuse, Aoki
27 listings 1,200–¥58,000,000
¥29,800,000
Elevation 9.3 to 110.8 metres (median 17.3) = the lowest, flattest land. The nearest station is Daiba for 19 properties (Sunzu Line). Only 2 houses (7%) date from before 1981, so this is the district with the newest homes
Nishikida district Yata, Kawaharagaya, Tamazawa, Yamanaka-shinden
26 listings 900–¥119,000,000
¥24,500,000
Elevation 16.4 to 143.7 metres (median 55.1). 20 properties have Mishima-Futsukamachi Station as their nearest station. The further east you go the steeper it gets, and the old Hakone road and the Yamanaka Castle ruins are in the same district. The most expensive property on this site's Mishima page, at ¥119,000,000, is here as well
The old town Mishima Station, Mishima Taisha Shrine, the city hall
15 listings 1,000–¥79,800,000
¥31,000,000
Elevation 18.6 to 121.8 metres (median 19.5). The median price is the highest of the four districts. The median plot is 148 square metres, the smallest of the four, and the median year of construction is 2004, the newest. The nearest station is Mishima for 7 properties and Mishima-Tamachi for 7
The four districts are the city's merger historyAs in §1, Kitaue Village (12.39 square kilometres) was merged in on 1 April 1935, Nishikida Village (18.83 square kilometres) merged in and city status was granted on 29 April 1941, and Nakazato Village (8.21 square kilometres) was merged in on 31 March 1954, giving Mishima its present shape.
So “the old town” is the former town of Mishima, and the other three are former villages. That is why the district names in the city's statistics have stayed the same. The neighbourhood associations are also grouped into 6 districts (east, central, west, Kitaue, Nishikida and Nakazato), with the old town split into east, central and west (§11).
The rise and fall of the population differs by district tooSetting the city's figures (31 December of each year, households / people) for Heisei 7 against Reiwa 7: the old town 12,363 households and 31,700 people → 16,394 households and 32,082 people, Kitaue 10,122 households and 29,619 people → 12,339 households and 25,953 people, Nishikida 7,196 households and 21,979 people → 9,672 households and 20,402 people, Nakazato 8,142 households and 24,887 people → 11,647 households and 25,353 people (the Reiwa 7 figures include foreign residents).
In 30 years the number of households has risen in every district, while the population has held level in the old town and Nakazato and fallen in Kitaue and Nishikida. In other words the number of people per household has fallen — families have changed shape, and houses are still needed.
Up the hill or down on the flatIn Kitaue district, Fuyodai, Hikarigaoka, Sano Miharashidai and Fujimidai are, as their names suggest, housing estates built for the view. The highest property for sale sits at 261.2 metres. As in §5, this district has landslide warning zones, and the city publishes hazard maps for Tokura, Hagi, Sawaji, Sano and other areas.
Nakazato district, on the other hand, is flat land with a median elevation of 17.3 metres, and as in §5 there are hazard maps for inland and river flooding from the Daiba River. Each has something to check — that is how you choose in Mishima.
Sources: households and population by district from Mishima City, “Mishima Statistics 2026”, section “B Households and Population” (Excel: 6 Population by neighbourhood association and town = as of 31 December Reiwa 7, Japanese nationals / old town total 31,503 people in 15,999 households, Kitaue district total 25,578 people in 12,120 households, Nishikida district total 20,070 people in 9,439 households, Nakazato district total 24,895 people in 11,381 households / 7 Households and population by district over time = Reiwa 7: old town 16,394 households and 32,082 people, Kitaue 12,339 households and 25,953 people, Nishikida 9,672 households and 20,402 people, Nakazato 11,647 households and 25,353 people; Heisei 7: old town 12,363 households and 31,700 people, Kitaue 10,122 households and 29,619 people, Nishikida 7,196 households and 21,979 people, Nakazato 8,142 households and 24,887 people / source: Citizens Affairs Division) / the property figures for each district are the same SUUMO data as in §4, assigned to these four districts and totalled by this site / checked 2026-08-24
Which part of Mishima City is best to live in?
This page uses the four districts the city uses in its own statistics (the old town, Kitaue district, Nishikida district and Nakazato district). The median price of a second-hand house is ¥23,800,000 in Kitaue, ¥24,500,000 in Nishikida, ¥29,800,000 in Nakazato and ¥31,000,000 in the old town. 🔴 The biggest difference is elevation — the median elevation of the houses for sale is 17.3 metres in Nakazato, 19.5 metres in the old town, 55.1 metres in Nishikida and 89.4 metres in Kitaue. For a newer house near a station, the old town (median year of construction 2004); for a newer house on the flat, Nakazato (only 7% date from before 1981); to buy cheaply, Kitaue (from ¥7,000,000, with 23% from before 1981); and both the most and the least expensive are in Nishikida (¥9,000,000 to ¥119,000,000).
CHAPTER 03Trains and cars — how you get around
From Mishima Station to Tokyo Station it is 54 minutes and ¥4,070 on a single Shinkansen Kodama service, with no change. Shinagawa is 46 minutes, Shinjuku 1 hour 21 minutes (1 change) and Nagoya 1 hour 37 minutes. On conventional lines only, Tokyo is 2 hours 6 minutes and ¥2,420 (1 change at Atami), and a commuter pass costs ¥63,150 a month. The city has five stations — Mishima, Mishima-Tamachi, Mishima-Hirokoji, Mishima-Futsukamachi and Daiba — and three lines meet at Mishima Station: the JR Tokaido Shinkansen, the JR Tokaido Main Line and the Izuhakone Railway Sunzu Line. Numazu is 6 minutes and ¥190 away (a commuter pass is ¥5,600 a month), and Atami is 15 minutes and ¥330 on the conventional line.
Journeys actually searched (searched for Tuesday 25 August 2026, in the 8 a.m. hour)
Destination
Fastest
Notes
Tokyo
54 min • ¥4,070 0 changes (Kodama 918)
On conventional lines only, 2 hr 6 min and ¥2,420 (1 change at Atami; commuter pass ¥63,150 a month). A Shinkansen commuter pass is ¥97,030 a month
Shinagawa
46 min • ¥4,070 0 changes
On conventional lines only, 1 hr 56 min and ¥2,420. A Shinkansen commuter pass is ¥91,400 a month
Shinjuku
1 hr 21 min • ¥4,070 1 change
Shinkansen plus conventional line. A commuter pass is ¥97,040 a month
Yokohama
57 min • ¥3,460 1 change
On conventional lines only, 1 hr 37 min and ¥1,760
Nagoya
1 hr 37 min • ¥7,910 1 change
With no change it is 1 hr 42 min. One Shinkansen ride to Tokyo, and one to Nagoya
Numazu
6 min • ¥190 0 changes
A commuter pass costs ¥5,600 a month, or ¥26,920 for 6 months
Atami
15 min • ¥330 0 changes, conventional line
By Shinkansen it is 7 min and ¥1,200
Haneda Airport
1 hr 32 min • ¥4,450 1 change
Shinkansen to Shinagawa, then the Keikyu line to Haneda Airport
Departures a day from Mishima Station (counted by this site on a weekday, 24 August 2026)
Line and direction
Services
First and last departure
Tokaido Shinkansen, towards Tokyo
46
6:17 to 22:33 (40 Kodama, 6 Hikari)
Tokaido Shinkansen, towards Nagoya and Shin-Osaka
40
6:14 to 23:02 (34 Kodama, 6 Hikari)
Tokaido Main Line, towards Atami and Tokyo
58
5:01 to 22:15 (56 local, 2 Odoriko limited express)
Tokaido Main Line, towards Numazu and Hamamatsu
87
5:32 〜 24:30
Izuhakone Railway Sunzu Line, towards Shuzenji
65
5:43 to 23:50 (63 local, 2 Odoriko limited express)
“Commuting by Shinkansen” is a real option in this townIn Reiwa 6 the city ran a “Shinkansen Use Survey”. Its purpose, in the city's words: “As groundwork for encouraging young people who have left for the capital region to return and settle, to understand where they go to study, the reality of commuting to school and work by Shinkansen, and what people expect of the town in future, and to organise the information needed for effective migration and settlement measures.” It surveyed about 1,000 people eligible to attend the coming-of-age ceremony and about 200 residents using Mishima Station, between 8 November Reiwa 6 and 14 January Reiwa 7 and 10 to 23 December Reiwa 6. The questions included “commuting time”, “mode of commuting”, “current travel costs”, “willingness to live in Mishima” and “willingness to live in Mishima if a commuting subsidy were introduced”.
The city is studying a Shinkansen commuting subsidy as something it might do — that is the stage this town is at. The report is published as a PDF.
10,600,000 people board at JR Mishima Station in a yearIn the city's statistics, 10,606,606 people boarded at JR Mishima Station in Reiwa 6 (Tokaido Main Line and Shinkansen / JR Central Shizuoka Branch). That is about 29,000 a day. Before the pandemic, in Heisei 30, the figure was 11,355,938, so it has come back to 93%.
On the Izuhakone Railway, boardings in Reiwa 6 were 2,820,279 at Mishima, 786,246 at Daiba, 624,048 at Mishima-Hirokoji, 485,849 at Mishima-Futsukamachi and 418,385 at Mishima-Tamachi. All five stations in the city see more than 400,000 boardings a year.
There are 5 motorway interchanges inside the cityCounting from the National Land Numerical Information, the interchanges and junctions inside Mishima City are Mishima-Kamo and Mishima-Hagi (the East Suruga Bay Ring Road) and Mishima-Tsukahara, Mishima-Tamazawa and Daiba-Kannami (the Izu-Jukan Expressway) — 5 in all. Five in a city of 62 square kilometres.
The nearest airports are Shizuoka Airport (79.5 kilometres in a straight line) and Tokyo International Airport, that is Haneda (88.2 kilometres in a straight line), but as the table above shows, Haneda is 1 hour 32 minutes away by train. There is also the “Mishima Express” coach (Shinjuku – Mishima Station – Ohira depot), which carried 61,082 passengers in Reiwa 6 — 13 times the 4,525 of Reiwa 2.
Getting around inside the city means the city buses and shared taxisThe city runs community buses — Seseragi-go (town centre loop), Nakazato-go (Nakazato district loop), Kitaue-go (Kitaue district) and Fureai-go (northern Nakazato) — as well as Hana-no-machi-go, the Tamazawa line, the Izu-Sano line and the Miharashidai line, plus the booking-only shared taxis “Yamada / Ozawa line” and “Miharashi-go”.
In Reiwa 6 they carried 45,378 on Seseragi-go, 30,634 on Kitaue-go, 12,673 on Fureai-go and 11,330 on Nakazato-go, 100,015 in total. A bus location system is already in place.As §2 explains, Kitaue district is up the hill, so when you view a house, always check the nearest bus stop and how often the bus runs.
Sources: journey times, fares and commuter passes were searched by this site onYahoo! TransitforTuesday 25 August 2026, in the 8 a.m. hour and searched by this site (Mishima → Tokyo = dep 8:00 → arr 8:54, 54 min, ¥4,070 [fare ¥2,310 + supplement ¥1,760], 0 changes, Kodama 918, 120.7 km / dep 8:02 → arr 10:08, 2 hr 6 min, ¥2,420, 1 change, commuter pass ¥63,150 a month / Shinkansen commuter pass ¥97,030 a month. Mishima → Shinagawa = dep 8:00 → arr 8:46, 46 min, ¥4,070, 0 changes, 113.9 km, commuter pass ¥91,400 a month. Mishima → Shinjuku = dep 8:00 → arr 9:21, 1 hr 21 min, ¥4,070, 1 change, 124.5 km, commuter pass ¥97,040 a month. Mishima → Yokohama = dep 8:09 → arr 9:06, 57 min, ¥3,460 [fare ¥1,700 + supplement ¥1,760], 1 change, 99.8 km / conventional lines 1 hr 37 min, ¥1,760. Mishima → Nagoya = dep 8:24 → arr 10:01, 1 hr 37 min, ¥7,910, 1 change, 245.3 km / 0 changes 1 hr 42 min. Mishima → Numazu = dep 8:00 → arr 8:06, 6 min, ¥190, 0 changes, 5.5 km, commuter pass ¥5,600 a month, ¥16,000 for 3 months, ¥26,920 for 6 months. Mishima → Atami = dep 8:02 → arr 8:17, 15 min, ¥330, 0 changes / by Shinkansen 7 min, ¥1,200. Mishima → Haneda Airport = dep 8:00 → arr 9:32, 1 hr 32 min, ¥4,450, 1 change) / the services shown vary from day to day / the number of departures was counted by this site from the same Yahoo! Transit timetable for Mishima Station on a weekday, 24 August 2026 / the Shinkansen use survey is from Mishima City, “Results of the Shinkansen Use Survey” (updated 5 February 2026 / carried out in Reiwa 6 / purpose and subjects: about 1,000 people eligible to attend the coming-of-age ceremony / about 200 residents using Mishima Station / survey period 8 November Reiwa 6 to 14 January Reiwa 7, and 10 to 23 December Reiwa 6 / questions included “commuting time”, “mode of commuting”, “current travel costs”, “willingness to live in Mishima” and “willingness to live in Mishima if a commuting subsidy were introduced”, up to 17 items) / station boardings, community buses and the Mishima Express from the same city, “Mishima Statistics 2026”, section “J Transport and Communications” (Excel: 2 JR Mishima Station use = 10,606,606 in Reiwa 6, 11,355,938 in Heisei 30 / 3 Izuhakone Railway use = boardings in Reiwa 6: Mishima 2,820,279, Mishima-Hirokoji 624,048, Mishima-Tamachi 418,385, Mishima-Futsukamachi 485,849, Daiba 786,246 / 1 Community bus use = Reiwa 6: Seseragi-go 45,378, Nakazato-go 11,330, Kitaue-go 30,634, Fureai-go 12,673 / 4 Mishima Express use = 61,082 in Reiwa 6, 4,525 in Reiwa 2) / the city bus routes from the same, "Public transport" / interchanges and airports from the National Land Numerical Information (N06 expressway time series, 2025 edition; C28 airports, FY2021 edition), matched against the city boundary by this site / checked 2026-08-24
✈ Airports
The nearest is Shizuoka Airport (a regionally managed airport), about 79.5 km away in a straight line. Next is Tokyo International Airport (about 88.2 km in a straight line). 🔴 These are straight-line distances. They are not road distances or journey times — please check the operators' timetables for how to actually get there.
🛣 Expressway junctions
This area has 5 motorway entrances (interchanges and junctions). The Izu-Jukan Expressway = Mishima-Tsukahara, Mishima-Tamazawa, Daiba, Kannami The East Suruga Bay Ring Road = Mishima-Kamo, Mishima-Hagi
How long does it take to get from Mishima to Tokyo?
🔴 From Mishima Station to Tokyo Station it is 54 minutes and ¥4,070 on a single Tokaido Shinkansen Kodama service, with no change (searched for Tuesday 25 August 2026, in the 8 a.m. hour). Shinagawa is 46 minutes, Shinjuku 1 hour 21 minutes (1 change) and Nagoya 1 hour 37 minutes. On conventional lines only, Tokyo is 2 hours 6 minutes and ¥2,420 (1 change at Atami; commuter pass ¥63,150 a month), and a Shinkansen commuter pass is ¥97,030 a month. There are 46 Shinkansen departures a day towards Tokyo (40 Kodama and 6 Hikari; first 6:17, last 22:33). Numazu is 6 minutes and ¥190 away (a commuter pass is ¥5,600 a month). The city has five stations: Mishima, Mishima-Tamachi, Mishima-Hirokoji, Mishima-Futsukamachi and Daiba.
CHAPTER 04Homes actually on the market right now
SUUMO lists 111 properties, and all 111 of them are included here. From ¥7,000,000 to ¥119,000,000, with a median of ¥24,500,000. 3 are ¥10,000,000 or less (3%). The median plot is 195 square metres (about 59 tsubo) and the median building 110 square metres. The median year of construction is 1994, and 13 (12%) date from before 1981, the old earthquake code. Elevation runs from 9.3 to 261.2 metres (median 67.9 metres). And Mishima City pays ¥1,000,000 to a young household that moves in from outside the prefecture and buys a house (§8).
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"Nearest the station first" converts everything to minutes — a walk of ◯ min, ◯ min by bus plus ◯ min from the stop, ◯ km by car (reckoned at 30 km/h) — and compares those. Listings with no such information always appear last, whatever the sort.
“54 minutes to Tokyo by Shinkansen, median ¥24,500,000” is where this town sitsSet against the other places in the Tokyo area on this site, the median price of a second-hand house is ¥21,800,000 in Tsukuba, ¥18,800,000 in Kisarazu, ¥21,800,000 in Hadano and ¥24,800,000 in Miura. Mishima is ¥24,500,000. The median plot is 195 square metres (about 59 tsubo).
What is different is how you get to Tokyo from here. As §3 shows, 54 minutes by Shinkansen or 2 hours 6 minutes on conventional lines. “An hour from Tokyo for those who will pay the Shinkansen fare, two hours for those who will not” — house prices in Mishima reflect both.
The cheapest, at ¥7,000,000, was up the hill in Kitaue districtAs §2 shows, the median by district is ¥23,800,000 in Kitaue, ¥24,500,000 in Nishikida, ¥29,800,000 in Nakazato and ¥31,000,000 in the old town. The cheapest at ¥7,000,000 is in Kitaue district, and the dearest at ¥119,000,000 is in Nishikida district.
Across the whole city 13 houses (12%) date from before 1981, the old earthquake code, but 10 of them are in Kitaue district alone — by district that is 23% in Kitaue, 7% in Nakazato, 4% in Nishikida and 0% in the old town. Cheap houses are usually old houses. As §8 explains, the city has a renovation grant for people moving in and for families with children, so putting it into your budget before you buy widens what you can consider.
The akiya bank had 0 listings when we lookedMishima City's akiya bank works through the “National Akiya Bank” run by at home Co., Ltd., selected by public tender by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. From the city's guidance page (updated 20 August 2026): “Using the national akiya bank, we deliver information nationwide about empty houses that are still usable but have not reached the market, the kind ordinary estate agents rarely handle.”When this site checked on 24 August 2026, there were 0 listings. The site itself is open. The city cannot be involved at all in negotiations, contract procedures or viewings for the sale of a property — the city states this clearly. If you are house-hunting in Mishima, the realistic approach is to combine portals such as SUUMO, local estate agents, and the grants in §8.
Elevation runs from 9 metres to 261 metresThe median elevation is 67.9 metres, but the range is 9.3 metres to 261.2 metres. As §2 shows, the medians are 17.3 metres in Nakazato, 19.5 metres in the old town, 55.1 metres in Nishikida and 89.4 metres in Kitaue.
In Mishima this is the first number to look at. As §5 explains, flooding from the Daiba River matters low down, and landslide warning zones matter higher up. This site shows the elevation of every property in the list, so look at the elevation of a house you like, then check its address on the city's hazard map.
Sources: taken from SUUMO, "Second-hand detached houses in Mishima City" (see the list here / of the 111 listed, 111 listingsall were taken, 23 August 2026) / elevation is from the map coordinates on each property page, looked up with the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan elevation API / the medians for Tsukuba, Kisarazu, Hadano and Miura were counted the same way on this site's pages for those cities / the akiya bank is from Mishima City, “National Akiya Bank (Mishima City)” (updated 20 August 2026 / “The ‘Mishima City Akiya Bank’ is the city's official information site for bringing together owners who want to sell an unused house in the city and users who want to move to Mishima and live in it.” “Using the national akiya bank, we deliver information nationwide about empty houses that are still usable but have not reached the market, the kind ordinary estate agents rarely handle.” “The city cannot be involved at all in direct negotiations, contract procedures or viewings for the sale of a property.”) and at home Akiya Bank, Shizuoka Prefecture, checked by this site on 24 August 2026 (“Mishima City (0)” = 0 listings) / checked 2026-08-24
Akiya bank
There are no houses registered for sale. Every property listed in this chapter is on the private market. (as checked on 24 August 2026)
How much does a second-hand house in Mishima City cost?
SUUMO lists 111 properties, and all 111 were counted (23 August 2026). From ¥7,000,000 to ¥119,000,000, with a median of ¥24,500,000. 3 are ¥10,000,000 or less (3%). The median plot is 195 square metres (about 59 tsubo) and the median building 110 square metres. The median year of construction is 1994, and 13 (12%) date from before 1981, the old earthquake code. Elevation runs from 9.3 to 261.2 metres (median 67.9 metres). The medians for the other places in the Tokyo area on this site are ¥21,800,000 in Tsukuba, ¥18,800,000 in Kisarazu, ¥21,800,000 in Hadano and ¥24,800,000 in Miura.
CHAPTER 05Is the ground safe?
Mishima City is designated both as a Nankai Trough Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area and as a Tokyo Inland Earthquake Emergency Countermeasure Area. And because it does not face the sea, every figure for building and human damage from tsunami in Shizuoka Prefecture's 4th Earthquake Damage Estimate is “—” (not applicable). The largest case in the city's estimate is the Genroku-type Kanto earthquake on the Sagami Trough, with about 2,700 buildings destroyed or burnt out and about 20 deaths. There are 119 landslide warning zones — 97 for cliff collapse and 22 for debris flow (49 neighbourhood associations plus 1 other area). If Mount Fuji erupts, lava would take at least 7 days to reach Mishima, and ash would fall to a depth of 2 to 30 centimetres, according to the estimate.
Is this town inside a national earthquake-preparedness zone?
For each major earthquake, national law designates the areas where preparation is to be advanced. Whether a town is designated tells you directly how the national government views the shaking and tsunami expected there.
Nankai Trough Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area
Designated
Tokyo Inland Earthquake Emergency Measures Area
Designated
Japan Trench / Kuril Trench Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area
Not applicable (the whole of Shizuoka Prefecture is outside this scheme)
Shaking of intensity 6-lower or above within 30 years
70.1% (35.2% for upper 6 or above) At the Mishima City Hall site. The surface ground is AVS30 243 m/s, volcanic foothill
This probability is for the single 250-metre grid square the city hall stands in.
The Mishima City town hall stands onvolcanic piedmont (AVS30 243 m/s), and the 70.1% above is the figure for that point. Even within Mishima City it varies a great deal between the low ground along the rivers and the terraces.
When a listing interests you, look it up by its street address.Enter an address on the J-SHIS map and it shows the probability and the ground for that 250-metre mesh.
Shaking about 1,400, fire about 1,200, liquefaction about 100, landslides about 10. Tsunami is “—”. About 20 deaths
The largest case modelled for Mishima is not the Nankai Trough but the Sagami TroughAs the table above shows, the great Nankai Trough earthquake (eastern case) gives about 200 buildings destroyed or burnt out, while the Genroku-type Kanto earthquake gives about 2,700 — a difference of more than 13 times. In terms of shaking, the great Nankai Trough earthquake puts 88.9% of the city at lower 6, but the Genroku-type Kanto earthquake puts 69.4% of the city at upper 6.
These numbers show that Mishima sits at the western foot of Hakone, that is, close to the Sagami Trough. The large figure for buildings destroyed or burnt out by fire, about 1,200, is also characteristic of the Genroku type, and the reason is how densely built the town centre is. As §8 explains, the city runs a seismic circuit-breaker grant and a furniture-anchoring scheme every year — both of them work directly on the numbers above.
3.7 to 5.0% of the city is rated “high” for liquefactionIn the 4th Earthquake Damage Estimate's liquefaction ranking by area, of Mishima City's 61.4 square kilometres, “high” covers 2.2 to 3.1 square kilometres (3.6 to 5.0%) and “medium” 3.4 to 3.8 square kilometres (5.5 to 6.2%). “Not assessed” accounts for 53.2 square kilometres (86.6%) — mountains and the like.
For Shizuoka Prefecture as a whole “high” is 2.5 to 2.6%, so Mishima is a little above the prefectural average. As §2 shows, the median elevation in Nakazato district is 17.3 metres — when you look at low ground, check liquefaction as well.
There are 119 landslide warning zones, and the city publishes 15 hazard maps by areaThe city's list gives 97 for cliff collapse and 22 for debris flow = 119 in all, covering 49 neighbourhood associations (plus 1 other area). The hazard maps are by area: Sano / Tokura and Hagi / Tokura and Sawaji / Senmaibara and Bunkyo-cho / Sawaji / Kamo and Yamada / Ozawa / Tsukahara-shinden / Mitsuya and Sasahara-shinden / Yamanaka-shinden / Tamazawa / Daisaki / Kawaharagaya / Yata / Taro and Daiba / the Lake Ashi holiday-home area — concentrated in Kitaue and Nishikida districts from §2.
“Landslides, when they happen, cause great damage and can take many lives. Check the landslide warning zones in your area and your home regularly, and make sure you know how the city will pass on evacuation information and where the evacuation places are.” — the city's own words. There is also a web version of the hazard map.
Flooding here means the Daiba River, both inland water and river waterThe city's flood hazard map models “the case where about 77 mm of rain falls in an hour in the catchment of the Daiba River, a Class A river, the river level rises and inland water cannot be drained” (Nakazato district), and “the case where 57 mm of rain falls in two hours in the middle and upper Daiba River, the river rises and the bank breaches” (Nakajima, Taro and Kitazawa).
The names of the affected areas are written out. If you are looking for a house in Nakazato district from §2, look at these two maps first. The city also links to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's flood inundation map for the largest conceivable rainfall.
If Mount Fuji erupts — lava after at least 7 days, ash 2 to 30 centimetres deepFrom the city's Mount Fuji volcanic hazard map: “The main eruption phenomena that would affect Mishima City are lava flow and ashfall.” On lava: “We have set 252 calculation start points (vents) in all and run simulations, and of these, 8 are modelled as affecting Mishima City.” And: “The shortest time for lava to reach Mishima City is estimated at 7 days or more, and depending on the position and scale of the vent, it is also possible that it would not reach Mishima City at all.”
On ash: “A deposit of roughly 2 to 30 cm is estimated within Mishima City, but the area of ashfall changes with wind direction and speed.” The evacuation thinking is set out too — for lava, “evacuate to an evacuation place outside the flow area, or to relatives, friends or accommodation”; for ash, “as a rule, shelter indoors at home, close the windows and seal the building”. It was updated to match the new Mount Fuji hazard map of March Reiwa 3.
What happens to water and electricity after an earthquakeFrom the lifeline damage in the 4th Earthquake Damage Estimate (great Nankai Trough earthquake, eastern case): water supply cut to 97% immediately (about 108,000 people), 96% after 1 day, 52% after 1 week, 0% after 1 month. Power cut to 89% immediately (about 58,000 premises), 78% after 1 day, 0% after 4 days. Fixed-line telephones out on 89% of lines immediately (about 15,000 lines).
On the other hand, sewerage is impaired for 3% immediately (about 2,800 people) and 0% after 1 week, town gas supply is cut to 0 households, and LP gas is impaired for 7% (about 1,300 households need checking). In other words, water and electricity for about a week; sewerage and gas barely stop at all. The city also runs a “Full tank and one extra can of kerosene” campaign.
Sources: the damage estimate is from Mishima City, “Shizuoka Prefecture 4th Earthquake Damage Estimate (Mishima City section)” PDF (partly revised 1 November 2014 / 1st report Heisei 25.6.27, 2nd report Heisei 25.11.29 / building damage, destroyed or burnt out = Tokai earthquake and similar about 200 [shaking about 100, liquefaction about 100, landslides about 10, fire about 10]; great Nankai Trough earthquake [eastern case] about 200 [shaking about 200, liquefaction about 100, landslides about 10, fire about 10]; Genroku-type Kanto earthquake about 2,700 [shaking about 1,400, liquefaction about 100, landslides about 10, fire about 1,200] / partly destroyed = about 1,600, about 2,300, about 5,200 / deaths = about 20 for the Genroku-type Kanto earthquake, “—” for the others / every tsunami figure is “—” / shaking: great Nankai Trough eastern case lower 6 88.9%, upper 5 11.1%; Genroku-type Kanto upper 6 69.4%, lower 6 22.5%, upper 5 8.1% / liquefaction “high” = Tokai earthquake and similar 2.3 km² 3.7%, great Nankai Trough 2.7 km² 4.4%, Taisho-type Kanto 2.2 km² 3.6%, Genroku-type Kanto 3.1 km² 5.0%; Shizuoka Prefecture as a whole “high” 2.5 to 2.6% / lifelines [great Nankai Trough earthquake, eastern case] water supply: served population about 111,000, cut to 97% immediately, 96% after 1 day, 52% after 1 week, 0% after 1 month / sewerage: served population about 87,000, impaired 3% immediately, 0% after 1 week / power: about 65,000 premises, cut to 89% immediately, 78% after 1 day, 0% after 4 days / fixed-line telephones: about 17,000 lines, 89% out immediately / town gas: about 24,000 households, 0 cut off / LP gas: about 19,000 households, 7% impaired, about 1,300 needing checks) / landslides from the same city, “Landslide hazard maps (Mishima City)” (updated 5 February 2026 / 97 cliff-collapse sites, 22 debris-flow sites, 119 in all / 49 neighbourhood associations [plus 1 other area] / 15 maps by area = Sano; Tokura and Hagi; Tokura and Sawaji; Senmaibara and Bunkyo-cho; Sawaji; Kamo and Yamada; Ozawa; Tsukahara-shinden; Mitsuya and Sasahara-shinden; Yamanaka-shinden; Tamazawa; Daisaki; Kawaharagaya; Yata; Taro and Daiba; the Lake Ashi holiday-home area) / flooding from the same city, “Mishima City flood hazard map” (updated 5 February 2026 / “It has been drawn up for the case where about 77 mm of rain falls in an hour in the catchment of the Daiba River, a Class A river, the river level rises and inland water cannot be drained.” “River flooding modelled on the case where 57 mm of rain falls in two hours in the middle and upper Daiba River, the river rises and the bank breaches.”) / Mount Fuji from the same city, “Mishima City Mount Fuji volcanic hazard map” (updated 5 February 2026 / “Following the publication of a new Mount Fuji hazard map in March Reiwa 3 by the Mount Fuji Volcanic Disaster Prevention Council, we have updated the volcanic hazard map for Mishima City.” “The main eruption phenomena that would affect Mishima City are lava flow and ashfall.” “We have set 252 calculation start points (vents) in all and run simulations, and of these, 8 are modelled as affecting Mishima City.” “The shortest time for lava to reach Mishima City is estimated at 7 days or more.” “A deposit of roughly 2 to 30 cm is estimated within Mishima City, but the area of ashfall changes with wind direction and speed.”) / checked 2026-08-24
Does Mishima City have an akiya bank?
🔴 Yes, though when this site checked on 24 August 2026 there were 0 listings. Mishima City's akiya bank works through the “National Akiya Bank” run by at home Co., Ltd., selected by public tender by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. In the city's words: “Using the national akiya bank, we deliver information nationwide about empty houses that are still usable but have not reached the market, the kind ordinary estate agents rarely handle.” What the city does have instead is the “Live in Mishima” migration and settlement support scheme (¥1,000,000 for a young household moving in from outside the prefecture), the migration and child-rearing renovation grant, and the Mishima City grant for putting empty houses back into use.
CHAPTER 06What summer and winter are like
Mishima has a Japan Meteorological Agency surface observatory of its own (station number 47657). The normals (1991 to 2020) give an annual mean of 16.3°C and 1,868.2 mm of rain a year. The August daily high is 31.8°C and the January daily low is 0.8°C. By days: 2.8 days above 35°C, 59.6 days above 30°C, 15.2 tropical nights, 32.0 days below freezing at night and 0.0 days below freezing all day. Snowfall totals just 2 centimetres a year and the deepest snow cover is 1 centimetre — it hardly snows here. The wettest month is September with 241.8 mm and the driest December with 65.1 mm.
0.0 days below freezing all day. But 32 days below freezing at nightDays below freezing all day (below 0°C the whole day) come to 0.0 a year — in Mishima there is no day when it stays below freezing. On the other hand there are 32.0 days a year when the low is below 0°C, and the January daily low is 0.8°C. Frost in the morning, none by day — that is winter in Mishima.
Snow totals 2 centimetres a year, with 1 centimetre at the deepest.There are not many years when winter tyres are essential in the town centre, but it is a different story in Kitaue district (up to 261 metres) and the eastern side of Nishikida district (the old Hakone road and Yamanaka-shinden climb higher) from §2. National Route 1 over the Hakone Pass ices up in winter — if you live up the hill, keep something for the ice.
Summer is much the same as Tokyo2.8 days above 35°C, 59.6 days above 30°C and 15.2 tropical nights. The August daily high is 31.8°C and the daily low 23.7°C. Set against the other towns on this site, days above 35°C come to 4.8 in Tokyo, 2.1 in Kisarazu and 0.3 in Miura. Mishima's 2.8 makes it only a little cooler than Tokyo.It is not cool merely because it sits at the foot of Mount Fuji. As §1 explains, the town centre is flat land 20 to 25 metres above sea level, and its climate is a lowland climate. If you want cool, the answer is elevation — mornings and evenings change as you go up into Kitaue district from §2, or towards the mountain side and the city's high point at 941.5 metres.
Wet in autumn, dry in winterBy month, rainfall is highest in September at 241.8 mm, July 223.4 mm, October 215.7 mm and June 212.7 mm, and lowest in December at 65.1 mm and January 73.2 mm. The annual 1,868.2 mm is about 20% more than Tokyo (1,598.2 mm).
The rain concentrates in September and October — and that is exactly the kind of downpour the Daiba River flood hazard map in §5 models. The mean annual wind speed is 2.3 metres per second and the mean annual humidity 70%.
Source:Japan Meteorological Agency, normals for “Mishima” (1991 to 2020) (monthly temperature and rainfall / normals by number of days = 32.0 days below freezing at night, 15.2 tropical nights, 0.0 days below freezing all day, 132.3 days above 25°C, 59.6 days above 30°C, 2.8 days above 35°C / normals for snow = 2 centimetres of snowfall a year in total, deepest snow cover 1 centimetre / annual mean 16.3°C, annual rainfall 1,868.2 mm, annual daily high 21.4°C, annual daily low 11.9°C) / humidity and wind speed from Mishima City, “Mishima Statistics 2026”, section “A Land and Climate” (Excel: 9 Normals for monthly mean relative humidity, annual mean 70% / 10 Normals for monthly mean wind speed, annual mean 2.3 m/s / source: Japan Meteorological Agency) / the figures for Tokyo, Kisarazu and Miura are from the same source as on this site's pages for those places / checked 2026-08-24
Is Mishima free of natural-disaster risk?
🔴 Mishima City is designated both as a Nankai Trough Earthquake Disaster Prevention Promotion Area and as a Tokyo Inland Earthquake Emergency Countermeasure Area. But because it does not face the sea, every tsunami figure in Shizuoka Prefecture's 4th Earthquake Damage Estimate is “—”. The largest case is the Genroku-type Kanto earthquake on the Sagami Trough, with about 2,700 buildings destroyed or burnt out (about 1,200 of them by fire) and about 20 deaths. There are 119 landslide warning zones — 97 for cliff collapse and 22 for debris flow (49 neighbourhood associations plus 1 other area), and the city publishes 15 hazard maps by area. Flooding means inland water from the Daiba River (Nakazato district) and river flooding (Nakajima, Taro and Kitazawa). If Mount Fuji erupts, lava would take at least 7 days to reach the city and ash would fall 2 to 30 centimetres deep.
CHAPTER 07Shops, hospitals, schools
Children's medical costs in Mishima City are free from birth to the end of the school year in which a child turns 18 — outpatient care, inpatient care and hospital meals alike. In the city's words: “Outpatient care, inpatient care and hospital meals … free.” Schools: 14 municipal primary schools and 7 municipal lower secondary schools. For emergencies at night, the Mishima Medical Center (Minamihon-cho) opens 18:00 to 22:00 on weekdays, Mishima General Hospital and Mishima Chuo Hospital take turns from 22:00 to 9:00 the next morning, and for internal medicine and paediatrics the Numazu Night Emergency Medical Center opens 20:30 to 7:00 the next morning. There are also two universities in the city — the Nihon University College of International Relations (2,600 students) and the Juntendo University Faculty of Health Science and Nursing (589 students).
If you are taken ill at night (city page updated 18 August 2026)
When
Department
Where to go
Weekdays 18:00 to 22:00
Internal medicine, paediatrics, surgery
Mishima Medical Center (Minamihon-cho 4-31, Mishima City, 055-972-0711)
Weekdays 22:00 to 9:00
Surgery
Mishima General Hospital (Yata 2276, 055-975-3031) or Mishima Chuo Hospital (Midori-cho 1-3, 055-971-4133), taking turns. For details, call Mishima Fire Station (055-972-5800)
Weekdays 20:30 to 7:00
Internal medicine, paediatrics, surgery
Numazu Night Emergency Medical Center (Hinode-cho 1-15, Numazu City, 055-926-8699). Numazu Station is 6 minutes by train from Mishima Station (§3)
Saturdays 14:00 to 21:00
Internal medicine, paediatrics, surgery
Mishima Medical Center (after 21:00, surgery is covered in turn by Mishima General Hospital and Mishima Chuo Hospital)
Sundays, public holidays and the New Year period, 9:00 to 21:00
Internal medicine, paediatrics, surgery
Mishima Medical Center. For dentistry, a duty dentist from the Mishima City Dental Association, 9:00 to 16:00; for ENT, obstetrics and gynaecology, and ophthalmology, a duty doctor from the Numazu Medical Association and the Mishima City Medical Association, 8:00 to 17:00
14 municipal primary schools and 7 municipal lower secondary schoolsThe primary schools are Higashi, Nishi, Minami, Kita, Nishikida, Tokura, Saka, Sano, Nakazato, Sawaji, Mukaiyama, Kitaue, Yamada and Nagabuse — 14 in all. The lower secondary schools are Minami, Kita, Nishikida, Nakazato, Nakazato-Nishi, Kitaue and Yamada — 7 in all.
The School Basic Survey (as of 1 May Reiwa 7, public and private together) gives 14 primary schools, 208 classes and 4,847 pupils, and 9 lower secondary schools, 98 classes and 2,861 pupils. For upper secondary there are 3 public schools (1,885 pupils) and 1 private school (1,584 pupils). Kindergartens: 10 public (418 children) and 3 private (230 children), plus 12 private certified centres for children with type 1 certification (413 children). Of the 1,143 people who finished upper secondary school in March Reiwa 7, 914 went on to university or similar — 80.0%.
A town with two universitiesAs of 31 December Reiwa 7, the Nihon University College of International Relations and Junior College (Mishima campus) had 2,578 undergraduates, 22 postgraduates, 100 in the junior college business and liberal arts department and 202 in the junior college food and nutrition department, with 54 teaching staff and 58 administrative staff. The Juntendo University Faculty of Health Science and Nursing has 589 students, with 46 teaching staff and 25 administrative staff.
The description of the city tree, the ginkgo, in §1 mentions “the ginkgo avenue in Bunkyo-cho, where the educational and cultural facilities are” and “Mishima as a city of learning” — the place name Bunkyo-cho (“learning town”) comes from this. The National Institute of Genetics is in Yata, and the city flower, the Mishima cherry in §1, was born there.
Children's medical costs are free to 18, with nothing to pay at the counterTo qualify: “the child's address must be in Mishima City”, “the child must be covered by medical insurance” and “the child must be no older than the end of the school year in which they turn 18”. The patient pays nothing for outpatient care, inpatient care or hospital meals.
However, “costs that are not covered by insured treatment (document fees, hospitalisation certificates, medicine containers, vaccinations, health checks, private-room supplements, the extra charge if you ask for an original medicine where a generic exists, treatment for injuries caused by a third party such as in a traffic accident, and so on) are not subsidised.”The certificate cannot be used outside Shizuoka Prefecture, where you have to claim the money back with your receipts.This is the same “free to 18” level as Miura and Hadano on this site, and more generous than Tsukuba (¥600 for outpatient care) or Kisarazu (¥200).
Shopping and daily life centre on the south side of Mishima StationAs §2 explains, the city hall is in Kitata-machi and Mishima Taisha Shrine is in Omiya-cho, both within walking distance south of Mishima Station. As §12 explains, redevelopment of the east block is under way at the south exit of Mishima Station, with plans for medical facilities, a hotel, shops and flats. The Fuji-Mishima Tokyu Hotel has already opened in the west block.
For accommodation there are 9 hotels and 1 ryokan, 10 places in all, with 1,373 rooms and space for 2,110 guests (as of 27 February Reiwa 8, members of the tourism association and hotel and ryokan union). The city also runs the library, the lifelong learning centre, the Kitaue and Nakazato community halls, the citizens' gymnasium and the heated public pool.
Sources: emergency care is from Mishima City, “Emergency medical cover on weekday nights, Sundays and public holidays” (updated 18 August 2026 / weekday nights, internal medicine, paediatrics and surgery = 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., Mishima Medical Center [Minamihon-cho 4-31, Mishima City, 055-972-0711] / surgery = 10 p.m. to 9 a.m. the next day, Mishima General Hospital [Yata 2276, Mishima City, 055-975-3031] or Mishima Chuo Hospital [Midori-cho 1-3, Mishima City, 055-971-4133] in turn; for details call Mishima Fire Station 055-972-5800 / internal medicine, paediatrics and surgery = 8:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. the next day, Numazu Night Emergency Medical Center [Hinode-cho 1-15, Numazu City, 055-926-8699] / Saturdays 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Mishima Medical Center; 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. the next day the general and chuo hospitals in turn; 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. the next day Numazu Night Emergency Medical Center / Sundays, public holidays and the New Year period 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mishima Medical Center / dentistry 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., a duty dentist from the Mishima City Dental Association / ENT, obstetrics and gynaecology, and ophthalmology 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., a duty doctor from the Numazu Medical Association and the Mishima City Medical Association / duty doctor telephone service 055-983-0116) / schools from the same city, “Municipal primary schools” (updated 6 February 2026 / Higashi, Nishi, Minami, Kita, Nishikida, Tokura, Saka, Sano, Nakazato, Sawaji, Mukaiyama, Kitaue, Yamada and Nagabuse, 14 schools) and the same city, “Municipal lower secondary schools” (updated 6 February 2026 / Minami, Kita, Nishikida, Nakazato, Nakazato-Nishi, Kitaue and Yamada, 7 schools); pupil numbers and universities from the same city, “Mishima Statistics 2026”, section “L Education and Culture” (Excel: as of 1 May each year, from the School Basic Survey / Reiwa 7: 14 primary schools, 208 classes, 4,847 pupils; 9 lower secondary schools, 98 classes, 2,861 pupils / 3 public upper secondary schools with 1,885 pupils, 1 private with 1,584 / 10 public kindergartens with 418 children, 3 private with 230 / 12 private certified centres for children, type 1 certification, with 413 children / note: the number of schools and of children and pupils includes both public and private / 7 School leavers by destination = as of 1 May Reiwa 7, 1,143 in total, 914 going on to university or similar, a rate of 80.0% / 8 Nihon University College of International Relations and Junior College (Mishima campus) = as of 31 December Reiwa 7, 2,578 undergraduates, 22 postgraduates, 100 in business and liberal arts, 202 in food and nutrition, 54 teaching staff, 58 administrative staff / 9 Juntendo University Faculty of Health Science and Nursing = as of 31 December Reiwa 7, 589 students, 46 teaching staff, 25 administrative staff) and section “G Tourism” (4 Accommodation by type, number and capacity = as of 27 February Reiwa 8, 9 hotels, 1 ryokan, 10 places in all, 1,373 rooms, capacity 2,110 / members of the tourism association and the hotel and ryokan union) / children's medical costs from the same city, “We subsidise children's medical costs” (updated 2 December 2025 / “1. The child's address must be in Mishima City 2. The child must be covered by medical insurance 3. The child must be no older than the end of the school year in which they turn 18” / “Outpatient care, inpatient care and hospital meals … free” / “Costs that are not covered by insured treatment (document fees, hospitalisation certificates, medicine containers, vaccinations, health checks, private-room supplements, the extra charge if you ask for an original medicine where a generic exists, treatment for injuries caused by a third party such as in a traffic accident, and so on) are not subsidised.” “The certificate cannot be used outside Shizuoka Prefecture, so you need to claim the money back with your receipts.”). The details for Miura, Hadano, Tsukuba and Kisarazu are from the same sources as on this site's pages for those cities / checked 2026-08-24
What are summer and winter like in Mishima?
🔴 Mishima has a Japan Meteorological Agency observatory of its own (station number 47657). The normals (1991 to 2020) give an annual mean of 16.3°C and 1,868.2 mm of rain a year. The August daily high is 31.8°C and the January daily low 0.8°C. By days: 2.8 days above 35°C, 59.6 days above 30°C, 15.2 tropical nights, 32.0 days below freezing at night and 0.0 days below freezing all day. 🔴 Snowfall totals 2 centimetres a year and the deepest snow cover is 1 centimetre — there is no day that stays below freezing, and it hardly snows. There are 32 days below freezing at night, though, so mornings do freeze. The wettest month is September with 241.8 mm.
CHAPTER 08What it costs you every year after you buy
Fixed asset tax in Mishima City is 1.40% and city planning tax 0.30% (on land and buildings inside the urbanisation promotion area), 1.70% in total. The tax-free thresholds are ¥300,000 for land, ¥200,000 for buildings and ¥1,500,000 for depreciable assets. Water and sewerage come to ¥9,225 for 40 cubic metres over two months (water ¥4,389 plus sewerage ¥4,836). And Mishima City has a scheme called “Live in Mishima” that pays ¥1,000,000 to a young household that moves in from outside the prefecture and acquires a home. Combined with the migration and employment support grant for people who move from the Tokyo area and work (¥600,000 for a single person, ¥1,000,000 for a household of two or more, plus ¥1,000,000 for each person under 18), the total can be substantial if you meet the conditions.
Water and sewerage (13 to 25 mm meter, two months, including consumption tax, calculated by this site from the city's formula)
Use over two months
Water
Sewerage
Total
20 cubic metres Standing charge only
¥1,881
¥2,252
¥4,133
40 cubic metres A guide for a household of 2 to 3
¥4,389
¥4,836
¥9,225
60 cubic metres
¥7,205
¥7,728
¥14,933
Water = standing charge ¥1,881 (up to 20 cubic metres) + ¥125.4 per cubic metre for 21 to 40 cubic metres + ¥140.8 for 41 to 100 cubic metres. Sewerage = standing charge ¥2,252 (up to 20 cubic metres) + ¥129.20 for 21 to 40 cubic metres + ¥144.60 for 41 to 60 cubic metres. Areas without public sewerage use a septic tank. As §9 explains, this is something buyers ask about when you come to sell.
Mishima City's migration and housing grants (Reiwa 8)
Scheme
Amount
Conditions and budget
“Live in Mishima” migration and settlement support
¥1,000,000 A young household moving in from outside the prefecture
¥500,000 if you have been granted the migration and employment support grant. A young household moving from within the prefecture where one partner's father or mother is registered in Mishima City gets ¥200,000, and a young household buying a second-hand house (including current Mishima residents) also gets ¥200,000. The Reiwa 8 budget is ¥30,000,000, with ¥22,600,000 left (as of 30 June Reiwa 8). Grants are awarded first come, first served
Migration and employment support grant
¥600,000 single ¥1,000,000 for two or more
For people moving into the city from the Tokyo area (Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama and Kanagawa), with ¥1,000,000 added for each person under 18 who moves with you. You must meet one of the conditions on employment, teleworking, starting a business or ties to the area
Migration and child-rearing renovation grant
20% of the works cost up to ¥200,000
For households moving in from outside the city, or households with children. Up to ¥300,000 for renovation that goes with buying a second-hand house. Works costing ¥100,000 or more qualify. In Reiwa 8 the ¥12,000,000 budget ran out on 16 July and applications closed
And more
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Mishima City scholarship repayment support grant • Mishima City grant for students taking regional jobs • seismic circuit-breaker grant • furniture-anchoring scheme • Mishima City grant for putting empty houses back into use
If you are coming from outside the prefecture to buy a house, look at “Live in Mishima” firstThe purpose, in the city's words: “To help form a good living environment for young households and to encourage migration to and settlement in Mishima City, grants are paid to young households that move in and acquire a home, and to young households that buy a second-hand home.”
The conditions are “to move into the home acquired and settle there (live there for 5 years or more)”, a couple with at least one partner under 40 on the day of moving in (under 46 if living with a child of lower secondary school age or younger), a home with a floor area of 75 square metres or more (55 square metres of private area for a flat), moving in after signing the construction or purchase contract, and not having been on the Mishima City basic resident register for a year or more before the day of moving in. You can apply after “registering ownership of the building” and “moving your resident registration to the home acquired”, within 1 year of moving your registration.Grants are awarded first come, first served.
The renovation grant had already closed for Reiwa 8For the migration and child-rearing renovation grant, the Reiwa 8 budget of ¥12,000,000 was down to ¥0 by 16 July — the city's page says “the budget has run out, so applications are now closed”. It also says “if the budget is increased by a supplementary budget or similar, we will post it on this page”.
What matters is that this grant “requires an application before the construction contract is signed” — “applications after the contract cannot be accepted”. The realistic approach is to time your move with the opening of applications for the next financial year (20 April in Reiwa 8). “Live in Mishima” opened for applications on 8 April, and ¥22,600,000 of the ¥30,000,000 was still left on 30 June.
Wastewater treatment reaches 94.4% of the populationFrom the city's sewerage business overview (Reiwa 8): at the end of Reiwa 7, sewerage coverage was 85.6% and the connection rate 93.8%. Wastewater treatment coverage is 94.4%, which is high against the Reiwa 6 figures of 93.7% nationally and 86.5% for Shizuoka Prefecture.
The city writes: “Because we have pushed the work forward diligently, at the end of Reiwa 4 our wastewater treatment coverage was the highest in the prefecture, and it has contributed to improving the living environment for residents.”The other side of that is that sewerage charges rose 28% on both the standing charge and the volume charge in April Reiwa 6. The reason, again in the city's words: “the spread of water-saving habits and the fall in charge income from a shrinking population, together with the growing need to renew ageing sewerage facilities such as the treatment centre”. It was the first change after 18 years unchanged since the revision in Heisei 17.
Water reaches 97.1% of the city, and each person uses 382 litres a dayFrom the city's statistics (end of Reiwa 6): population within the administrative area 104,401, population currently supplied 101,391, coverage 97.1%, 48,516 connections. Annual water distributed 14,122 thousand cubic metres, an average of 382 litres per person per day, with 81.8% of it billed. The volume actually taken from the Sunzu water supply was 5,819 thousand cubic metres.
Water meters are read every two months, and amounts under ¥10 are rounded down. For sewerage, amounts under ¥1 have been rounded down since the April Reiwa 6 revision. The city also runs cost-of-living measures such as “waiving the standing charge on water for 6 months”.
Sources: the tax rates are from Mishima City, “Fixed asset tax and city planning tax” (fixed asset tax 1.40% [land, buildings, depreciable assets], city planning tax 0.30% [land and buildings inside the urbanisation promotion area] / tax-free thresholds: land ¥300,000, buildings ¥200,000, depreciable assets ¥1,500,000 / “A tax levied on anyone who owns land, buildings or depreciable assets within Mishima City as of 1 January each year, the assessment date.”) / water charges from the same city, “How water charges are calculated” (updated 5 February 2026 / 13 mm to 25 mm meter: ¥1,881 up to 20 cubic metres, ¥125.4 per cubic metre for 21 to 40, ¥140.8 for 41 to 100, ¥147.4 for 101 to 200, ¥155.1 for 201 and above / “If the water charge comes to an amount with a fraction under ¥10, that fraction is rounded down.”) / sewerage charges from the same city, “Revision of sewerage charges” (updated 5 February 2026 / revised 1 April Reiwa 6: standing charge 0 to 20 cubic metres ¥1,760 → ¥2,252; 21 to 40 cubic metres ¥101 → ¥129.20; 41 to 60 cubic metres ¥113 → ¥144.60; 61 to 100 cubic metres ¥126 → ¥161.20; 101 to 1,000 cubic metres ¥141 → ¥180.40; 1,001 cubic metres and above ¥156 → ¥199.60 / “This revision raised both the standing charge and the volume charge by 28%.” “We now round the total down to the nearest yen.” / “This city is a ‘city of water’, where spring water from Mount Fuji runs through the town centre in several streams.” “Because we have pushed the work forward diligently, at the end of Reiwa 4 our wastewater treatment coverage was the highest in the prefecture, and it has contributed to improving the living environment for residents.” “Since the revision in Heisei 17 we have contracted meter reading and billing out to the private sector, reorganised, cut staff numbers and otherwise held costs down, and kept sewerage charges low for 18 years.”) / coverage from the same city, “Sewerage business overview”, the “Reiwa 8 sewerage business overview” PDF (“At the end of Reiwa 7, sewerage coverage was 85.6% and the connection rate 93.8%.” / wastewater treatment coverage 94.4% in Reiwa 7 and 94.3% in Reiwa 6 [93.7% nationally, 86.5% for the prefecture] / independent public sewerage 1,026 ha and basin-related public sewerage 796 ha, 1,822 ha in total / work on the independent public sewerage began in June Showa 39 and the Mishima wastewater treatment plant opened in November Showa 51) and the same city, “Mishima Statistics 2026”, section “I Electricity, Gas and Water” (Excel: 3 Water supply business = Reiwa 6, population within the administrative area 104,401, population currently supplied 101,391, coverage 97.1%, 48,516 connections, annual water distributed 14,122 thousand cubic metres, average 382 litres per person per day, 81.8% of water billed, volume actually taken from the Sunzu water supply 5,819 thousand cubic metres) / the grants from the same city, “[Live in Mishima migration and settlement support scheme]” (updated 5 February 2026 / Reiwa 8 budget ¥30,000,000, remaining ¥22,600,000 [as of 30 June Reiwa 8], applications from 8 April / ¥1,000,000 for a young household moving in from outside the prefecture [¥500,000 if granted the migration and employment support grant]; ¥200,000 for a young household moving from within the prefecture where one partner's father or mother is registered in Mishima City; ¥200,000 for a young household buying a second-hand house / “to move into the home acquired and settle there (live there for 5 years or more)” / floor area 75 square metres or more [55 square metres of private area for a flat] / “Grants are awarded in the order applications are received.”), the same city, “Migration and employment support grant” (updated 17 April 2026 / ¥600,000 for a single person moving, ¥1,000,000 for a household of two or more, plus ¥1,000,000 for each person under 18), the same city, “Mishima City migration and child-rearing renovation grant” (updated 5 February 2026 / Reiwa 8 budget ¥12,000,000, remaining ¥0 [as of 16 July Reiwa 8], “the budget has run out, so applications are now closed”, applications from 20 April / grant rate 20/100, limit ¥200,000, or ¥300,000 for renovation that goes with buying a second-hand house / “Works costing ¥100,000 or more qualify.” “You must apply before signing the construction contract. Applications after the contract cannot be accepted.”) / checked 2026-08-24
What are the schools and hospitals like in Mishima City?
🔴 Children's medical costs are free from birth to the end of the school year in which a child turns 18 — outpatient care, inpatient care and hospital meals alike. Schools: 14 municipal primary schools and 7 municipal lower secondary schools, with 4,847 primary pupils and 2,861 lower secondary pupils in the School Basic Survey (as of 1 May Reiwa 7, public and private together). For emergencies at night, the Mishima Medical Center (Minamihon-cho) opens 18:00 to 22:00 on weekdays, Mishima General Hospital and Mishima Chuo Hospital take turns from 22:00 to 9:00 the next morning, and for internal medicine and paediatrics the Numazu Night Emergency Medical Center opens 20:30 to 7:00 the next morning. 🔴 There are two universities in the city — the Nihon University College of International Relations (2,578 undergraduates) and the Juntendo University Faculty of Health Science and Nursing (589 students).
CHAPTER 09What happens when you want to sell
Residential land in Mishima costs ¥100,600 per square metre, up 0.3% on the year. That is the second highest of the 23 cities in Shizuoka Prefecture, after Shizuoka City (¥117,900). It is 139% of the prefectural average (¥72,300 per square metre, unchanged). Commercial land is ¥203,500 per square metre, up 2.0%, industrial land ¥46,700 per square metre, unchanged, and all uses together ¥128,700 per square metre, up 0.8%. Against its neighbours: Nagaizumi Town ¥126,800, Shimizu Town ¥112,100, Mishima ¥100,600, Numazu ¥82,600, Susono ¥67,800, Atami ¥66,700 and Kannami Town ¥54,800 — Mishima sits about 20% above Numazu and about 20% below Nagaizumi Town.
Use
Mishima City
Shizuoka Average
City / prefecture
Residential
¥100,600/m² (+0.3%)
¥72,300/m² (±0.0%)
139%
Commercial
¥203,500/m² (+2.0%)
¥153,100/m² (+0.8%)
133%
Industrial
¥46,700/m² (±0.0%)
¥50,100/m² (+0.9%)
93%
All uses
¥128,700/m² (+0.8%)
¥90,700/m² (+0.3%)
142%
The second highest residential land in the prefecture. That is the ground you sell fromRanking the residential land of Shizuoka's 23 cities: Shizuoka City ¥117,900, Mishima City ¥100,600, Numazu City ¥82,600, Hamamatsu City ¥73,900, Susono City ¥67,800, Atami City ¥66,700, Gotemba City ¥65,700, Izunokuni City ¥65,400. Mishima is second (counting towns as well it is fourth, behind Nagaizumi Town at ¥126,800 and Shimizu Town at ¥112,100).
That means it costs more to buy — and it also means there are buyers when you sell. As §4 shows, 111 properties are on the market right now — this is a market that moves.
Prices move gently (+0.3%)The +0.3% change in residential land is a shade above the prefectural average (unchanged). On other pages of this site the figures are Tsukuba +5.8%, Kisarazu +3.2%, Hadano +1.0%, Miura +1.5% and Mito unchanged. Commercial land at +2.0% is rising faster than residential land, and it is unlikely to be unrelated to the redevelopment at the south exit of Mishima Station in §12.
For a buyer it is a market that does not run away from you; for a seller it is a market that does not collapse — either way, prices move at a pace you can think about calmly.
Check these four when you buy, because you will be asked them when you sell1. Is it on public sewerage, or a septic tank? (as §8 shows, coverage is 85.6%, so 14% is outside) 2. The elevation, and whether it is inside a hazard map zone (§5) 3. Urbanisation promotion area or control area? (this decides whether the 0.30% city planning tax in §8 applies) 4. The nearest station and bus stop (§3).
All four will come up in the statement of important matters when you sell in ten years' time. Look them up now and you have the paperwork ready. In the Housing and Land Survey (Reiwa 5) Mishima had 6,510 empty homes out of 51,750, that is 12.6%, down from 7,570 (14.5%) in Heisei 30 — empty homes are not simply piling up in Mishima.
Source:Land Information Center, “Average prices and year-on-year change by municipality, Published Land Prices (Reiwa 8)”, the Shizuoka Prefecture page (Mishima City = residential land ¥100,600/m² +0.3% / commercial land ¥203,500/m² +2.0% / industrial land ¥46,700/m² unchanged / all uses ¥128,700/m² +0.8%. Shizuoka Prefecture = residential land ¥72,300/m² unchanged / commercial land ¥153,100/m² +0.8% / industrial land ¥50,100/m² +0.9% / all uses ¥90,700/m² +0.3%. Shizuoka City ¥117,900, Numazu City ¥82,600, Hamamatsu City ¥73,900, Susono City ¥67,800, Atami City ¥66,700, Gotemba City ¥65,700, Izunokuni City ¥65,400, Fujieda City ¥60,800, Fuji City ¥60,000 / Nagaizumi Town, Sunto District ¥126,800; Shimizu Town, Sunto District ¥112,100; Kannami Town, Tagata District ¥54,800 — all residential land). The residential land figures for Tsukuba, Kisarazu, Hadano, Miura and Mito are from the same source as on this site's pages for those cities / empty homes from Mishima City, “Mishima Statistics 2026”, section “K Civil Engineering, Land Use and Housing” (Excel: 13 Housing and Land Survey, number of dwellings = Reiwa 5 total 51,750, occupied 45,060, empty 6,510 / Heisei 30 total 52,380, empty 7,570 / as of 1 October of each year) / checked 2026-08-24
What does it cost each year to own a house in Mishima City?
Fixed asset tax 1.40% and city planning tax 0.30% (on land and buildings inside the urbanisation promotion area), 1.70% in total. The tax-free thresholds are ¥300,000 for land, ¥200,000 for buildings and ¥1,500,000 for depreciable assets. Water and sewerage come to ¥9,225 for 40 cubic metres over two months (water ¥4,389 plus sewerage ¥4,836). 🔴 Sewerage charges rose 28% on both the standing charge and the volume charge in April Reiwa 6 — the reason, in the city's words, being “the spread of water-saving habits and the fall in charge income from a shrinking population, together with the growing need to renew ageing sewerage facilities such as the treatment centre”. It was the first change after 18 years unchanged since the revision in Heisei 17.Sewerage coverage is 85.6%, so anywhere outside the area uses a septic tank.
CHAPTER 10Who lives here, and how many
The population is 103,790 in 50,052 households (as of 31 December Reiwa 7: 102,046 Japanese nationals plus 1,744 foreign residents). The population peaked at 112,829 in Heisei 17 (2005) and has fallen by about 10,800 (9.6%) since. The number of households, however, has gone on rising, from 33,041 in Showa 62 to 48,938 in Reiwa 7 (Japanese nationals). People aged 65 and over make up 29.3% as of January Reiwa 7.And there are 1,744 foreign residents, 1.5 times the figure ten years ago (1,157 in Heisei 27) — from more than 50 countries, the largest group being 329 from Vietnam.
Year
Population
Households
What happened
Showa 10 (1935) (1935)
28,143 people
5,164
Kitaue Village merged in (area 34.77 square kilometres)
Showa 16 (1941) (1941)
33,533 people
6,533
Merged with Nishikida Village and granted city status (53.60 square kilometres)
Showa 29 (1954) (1954)
58,128 people
11,597
Nakazato Village merged in (61.81 square kilometres) = the city's present shape
Showa 50 (1975) (1975)
89,805 people
24,353
3.7 people per household
Heisei 7 (1995) (1995)
108,185 people
37,823
2.9 people per household
Heisei 17 (2005) (2005)
112,829 people
44,053
The peak of the population
Reiwa 7 (2025) (2025)
102,046 plus 1,744 foreign residents
48,938
Population down 9.6% from the peak; households up 11%
The population is falling, but the number of households keeps risingIn the city's statistics (31 December each year, Japanese nationals), the population peaked at 112,829 in Heisei 17. In Reiwa 7 it was 102,046, 10,783 fewer (9.6%) in 20 years.
Households, on the other hand, have no peak — 33,041 in Showa 62 → 44,053 in Heisei 17 → 48,938 in Reiwa 7, still rising. People per household have gone from 5.4 in Showa 10 to 2.1 in Reiwa 7.Fewer people, but no fewer houses needed — which is the same thing the falling share of empty homes in §9 was showing.
486 births and 1,357 deaths. That is what the fall is made ofIn Reiwa 7 (as of 31 December, Japanese nationals) there were 486 births and 1,357 deaths, a natural change of minus 871. There were 3,342 arrivals and 3,817 departures, a migration change of minus 475.
The city's comprehensive plan puts it this way: “In natural change, births continue to fall with the falling birth rate while deaths continue to rise as the population ages; in migration, arrivals and departures vary from year to year, but departures have more often slightly exceeded arrivals.”Ten years earlier, in Heisei 27, there were 788 births and 1,056 deaths — 302 fewer births in ten years. That is the background to the Shinkansen commuting survey in §3.
1,744 foreign residents, the largest group from VietnamAs of 31 December Reiwa 7 there were 1,744. By nationality: 329 from Vietnam, 273 from China, 220 from the Philippines, 143 from Korea, 130 from Indonesia, 119 from Brazil, 82 from Nepal, 69 from Myanmar and 62 from Thailand — people from more than 50 countries and territories live here.
Ten years earlier, in Heisei 27, there were 1,157, so the figure is 1.5 times higher. The city's comprehensive plan has a policy on “multicultural coexistence and peace”, and the city website has a page for “Foreign Residents”.
People aged 65 and over make up 29.3%From the 5th Mishima City Comprehensive Plan, latter-term basic plan: “In terms of age structure, the child population and the working-age population (15 to 64) fall year by year, while the population aged 65 and over continues to rise; the share of older people was 29.3% as of January Reiwa 7, the highest in the world.” (this passage is about Japan as a whole).
And: “In the population pyramid, the ages of the second baby-boom generation, such as 50 to 54, are the largest.” The plan has an indicator, “net inward migration of children aged 0 to 14”, with a target of raising 20 in Reiwa 6 to 30 by Reiwa 12. This is a town that writes down, as a number, that it wants families with children to come.
Source:Mishima City, “Mishima Statistics 2026”, section “Key long-term statistical indicators” (Excel: as of 31 December each year / population Showa 62 102,305, Heisei 7 108,185, Heisei 17 112,829, Reiwa 7 102,046 / households Showa 62 33,041, Reiwa 7 48,938 / foreign residents Heisei 27 1,157, Reiwa 7 1,744 / Reiwa 7 arrivals 3,342, departures 3,817, births 486, deaths 1,357 / Heisei 27 births 788, deaths 1,056) and section “B Households and Population” (1 Households and population = Showa 10 5,164 households and 28,143 people; Showa 16 6,533 households and 33,533 people; Showa 29 11,597 households and 58,128 people; Showa 50 24,353 households and 89,805 people; Heisei 7 37,823 households and 108,185 people / 3 Foreign residents by nationality = as of 31 December Reiwa 7, Vietnam 329, China 273, the Philippines 220, Korea 143, Indonesia 130, Brazil 119, Nepal 82, Myanmar 69, Thailand 62 and others / 2 Households and population by month = 31 December Reiwa 7, 102,046 Japanese nationals plus 1,744 foreign residents, 103,790 in total, 50,052 households) / the ageing rate, population pyramid and indicators from the same city, “5th Mishima City Comprehensive Plan, latter-term basic plan” (PDF, March 2026 / “the share of older people was 29.3% as of January Reiwa 7, the highest in the world” / “In the population pyramid, the ages of the second baby-boom generation, such as 50 to 54, are the largest.” / “In natural change, births continue to fall with the falling birth rate while deaths continue to rise as the population ages; in migration, arrivals and departures vary from year to year, but departures have more often slightly exceeded arrivals.” / “The population has fallen for the past 10 years, by 6,227 between Heisei 27 (2015) and Reiwa 6 (2024).” / indicator “net inward migration of children aged 0 to 14: 20 (FY Reiwa 6) → 30 (FY Reiwa 12)”) / checked 2026-08-24
Share of foreign residents
1.68%national average 3.26%
Of the 103,790 people living in Mishima City, 1,744 are foreign residents. That is below the national average (3.26%).
Nationally, foreign residents make up 3.26% of the total population (4,031,159 out of 123,767,642).
34 municipalities in the country are above 10%.
Source: calculated by this site from the municipality-level tables of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "Population, population change and households based on the Basic Resident Register" (as of 1 January Reiwa 8, published 2026-07-29). The ministry's publication page / verified 2026-08-17
Are there any grants for moving to Mishima City?
🔴 Yes. ¥1,000,000 for a young household that moves in from outside the prefecture and acquires a home (the “Live in Mishima” migration and settlement support scheme). A young household moving from within the prefecture where one partner's father or mother is registered in Mishima City gets ¥200,000, and a young household buying a second-hand house (including current Mishima residents) also gets ¥200,000. The Reiwa 8 budget is ¥30,000,000, with ¥22,600,000 left on 30 June, and grants are awarded first come, first served. On top of that there is the migration and employment support grant (moving from the Tokyo area: ¥600,000 single, ¥1,000,000 for a household of two or more, plus ¥1,000,000 for each person under 18) and the migration and child-rearing renovation grant (20% of the works cost, up to ¥200,000, or up to ¥300,000 where it goes with buying a second-hand house). 🔴 The renovation grant's ¥12,000,000 budget for Reiwa 8 ran out on 16 July and applications closed, and you must apply before signing the construction contract.
CHAPTER 11Community life and the year's events
The Mishima City Federation of Neighbourhood Associations is made up of the federations of 6 districts (east, central, west, Kitaue, Nishikida and Nakazato), with 132 neighbourhood associations as members. In the city's words: “It supports neighbourhood association activities, aiming to improve residents' welfare and build a richer community.” “If you have any trouble in your area, talk to the people who hold it together — the Mishima City Federation of Neighbourhood Associations.”And the centre of the year in Mishima is the “Mishima Taisha Grand Festival” from 15 to 17 August.Mishima Taisha Shrine drew 2,970,000 visitors in Reiwa 6, and the Grand Festival 430,000 — 430,000 people over three days, in a town of 100,000.
Floats come out, and the city helps pay for new onesThe city has a “Mishima City grant for building new festival floats”. Other grants for neighbourhood associations include the “Mishima City grant for building community halls and similar facilities”.
A local authority with a written scheme for building new festival floats is a clear sign of a town where the festival is at the centre of community life. The city also announces the “Mishima Taisha Grand Festival painting competition” on its neighbourhood association page, and has a page called “This is what a neighbourhood association is! — the activities we are proud of”.
Residents join the Yoritomo banner-raising procession by open applicationThe Grand Festival's “Yoritomo banner-raising procession” takes place on 16 August. The city and the Mishima Chamber of Commerce and Industry invite applications, and in Reiwa 8 they were looking for 3 women's roles (Masako, Kikyo and Kaede), several foot-soldier roles and about 5 backstage staff (upper secondary school age and above, paid). To apply you must be “living, working or studying in the city, able to take part on Sunday 16 August without fail, and with no connection to organised crime”. The actor Susumu Terashima plays Yoritomo.Someone who has just moved in can take part in their first year — that says something about how Mishima works. From 19:00 on 17 August there is the “Grand Bon Dance”, and that one is “open to anyone”.
Autumn brings a run of food festivalsFrom the tourism events the city lists: “Mishima Mugizora” on 14 and 15 November, the “Mishima Food Festival” on 23 November, and the “Mishima Gyoza Festival” on 28 and 29 November. There is also the “Mishima Town of Flowers Fair” (the 14th), the “Street Sweetshop School, Shizuoka in Mishima Taisha and Ebisu Sando” (the 17th), and the “Growing and enjoying herbs” course.
The river cleaning in §1 is an annual fixture too — the city river clean-up on the second Saturday of May, the “Rubbish-picking Tour” on the first Saturday of every month, the “Zero Rubbish Campaign” in October, and the monthly river cleaning by the “Friends of the Genbei River”.
Disaster drills are held district by districtThe city publishes a “Reiwa 8 schedule of local disaster drills” and holds a ShakeOut drill (a city-wide simultaneous action drill) every year. The results of an annual survey of voluntary disaster-prevention organisations are published, and the city recruits for a “Build your disaster resilience! training course”.
As §5 explains, the landslide warning zones touch 49 neighbourhood associations — in this area, joining your neighbourhood association is how you get the disaster information. The city also has a page headed “Please join your neighbourhood association”.
Sources: the neighbourhood associations are from Mishima City "the Mishima City Federation of Neighbourhood Associations" (updated 5 February 2026 / “The Mishima City Federation of Neighbourhood Associations is made up of the federations of 6 districts within the city (east, central, west, Kitaue, Nishikida and Nakazato), and currently has 132 neighbourhood associations as members. It supports neighbourhood association activities, aiming to improve residents' welfare and build a richer community.” “If you have any trouble in your area, talk to the people who hold it together — the Mishima City Federation of Neighbourhood Associations.”) and the same city, “Neighbourhood associations” (Mishima City grant for building new festival floats / Mishima City grant for building community halls and similar facilities / Mishima Taisha Grand Festival painting competition / “This is what a neighbourhood association is! — the activities we are proud of” / “Please join your neighbourhood association”) / the Yoritomo banner-raising procession from the same city, “[Participants wanted] Mishima Taisha Grand Festival Yoritomo banner-raising procession” (updated 9 April 2026 / “Why not take part in the banner-raising procession alongside the actor Susumu Terashima, who plays Yoritomo?” / places: 3 women's roles (Masako, Kikyo and Kaede), several foot-soldier roles, about 5 backstage staff [upper secondary school age and above, paid] / eligibility: “living, working or studying in the city, able to take part on Sunday 16 August without fail, and with no connection to organised crime” / apply through the Mishima Chamber of Commerce and Industry) / the festival dates and the Grand Bon Dance from Mishima City Tourism Association, “Events” (Reiwa 8 [Mishima Taisha Grand Festival] Grand Bon Dance, Monday 17 August Reiwa 8 from 19:00, “open to anyone” / Mishima Taisha Grand Festival, Saturday 15 to Monday 17 August 2026) / visitor numbers from the same city, “Mishima Statistics 2026”, section “G Tourism” (Excel: 3 Visitors to tourist facilities = Reiwa 6, Mishima Taisha Shrine 2,970,000, Mishima Taisha Grand Festival (Mishima summer festival) 430,000, Yamanaka Castle Ruins Park 28,567, Sano Art Museum 66,145, Mishima Taisha Treasure Hall 14,351, Mishima Calendar Master's House 2,402 / source: Commerce, Industry, Tourism and Town Development Division) / the autumn events from the same city, “Tourism events” / the river cleaning from Ministry of the Environment, “Japan's 100 finest waters of the Heisei era: the Genbei River” / the disaster drills from the same city, “Disaster prevention and information” / dates and details change from year to year. Please check with the organisers before you set out / checked 2026-08-24
What happens when you come to sell land in Mishima City?
🔴 Residential land in Mishima costs ¥100,600 per square metre, up 0.3% on the year, the second highest of the 23 cities in Shizuoka Prefecture after Shizuoka City (¥117,900). It is 139% of the prefectural average (¥72,300 per square metre, unchanged). Nearby: Nagaizumi Town ¥126,800, Shimizu Town ¥112,100, Numazu City ¥82,600, Susono City ¥67,800, Atami City ¥66,700 and Kannami Town ¥54,800. Commercial land is rising faster than residential at ¥203,500 per square metre, up 2.0%. In the Housing and Land Survey (Reiwa 5) there were 6,510 empty homes, 12.6% of the total, down from 7,570 (14.5%) in Heisei 30.
CHAPTER 12Things nearby that move land prices
The biggest thing moving in Mishima right now is the south exit of Mishima Station. In the mayor's words, “work has begun on the long-standing task of redeveloping the east block at the south exit of Mishima Station” — the plan is for medical facilities, a hotel, shops and flats. Alongside it, the site for the new city hall has been decided as the Minamifutsukamachi open space, all 7 plots at the Mitsuya industrial park have sold, and a land readjustment preparatory association has been formed for about 20 hectares in the Daiba area. 🔴 And residents have raised concerns about the effect of this redevelopment on the groundwater and the springs; the city has answered an open letter of questions and publishes the results of its groundwater monitoring every month.
Redeveloping the east block at the south exit — as a “wide-area health and medical hub”In the city's words: “For the east block, the Mishima Station Area Grand Design sets out a direction of building a wide-area health and medical hub, as the front of the Smart Wellness City.” The comprehensive plan's first priority project is “developing the area around the south exit of Mishima Station”, and it says: “In the east block at the south exit of Mishima Station, an association-run redevelopment will build medical facilities, a hotel, shops and flats as a wide-area health and medical hub. Alongside this, the station rotary will be landscaped to create a comfortable station forecourt worthy of Mishima's gateway, where urban functions and nature are in harmony.”In the west block the “Fuji-Mishima Tokyu Hotel” has already opened, positioned as “a wide-area tourism information hub, as the front of the Garden City”. Commercial land rising 2.0% against residential land's 0.3% in §9 points the same way as all this.
The concerns about groundwater, and the city's response, are both publicFrom the city's page: “In the course of hearing residents' views at public meetings and open houses as the project moves forward, opinions have been raised expressing concern about the effect on groundwater and springs.” The city has done three things. 1. “Continuous groundwater monitoring since Heisei 28”, with the water level and quality (temperature, pH, EC, turbidity and so on) published on the city website every month. 2. Setting up a “Groundwater Measures Review Committee for the development around the south exit of Mishima Station” with outside experts (the 11th meeting was in October Reiwa 7). 3. Publishing the “open letter of questions” it received and the city's reply, as PDFs.
Both sides of the argument are public — worth reading before you move. As §1 explains, Mishima's spring water is the making of the town itself.
New places to work are being built tooIn the mayor's words: “All 7 plots at the newly created Mitsuya industrial park have sold, and 6 of them will begin operating this spring.” And: “In the Daiba area, local landowners have formed a land readjustment preparatory association for about 20 hectares of farmland next to the ‘Daiba-Kannami IC’ on the East Suruga Bay Ring Road, and urban land use is being taken forward.”
The comprehensive plan's third priority project is “attracting companies”: “We will actively work to attract companies, starting with the Daiba area land readjustment project and the area along the Nishimakado-Araya line.”In other words, Nakazato district (Daiba) from §2 is the district most likely to change over the next ten years.
The site of the new city hall has been decidedIn the mayor's words: “On the new city hall, the ordinance setting the location of Mishima City's offices has been passed by the city assembly and the Minamifutsukamachi open space has been decided as the site; the groundwork for sustained development in future, including the use of the old site, has advanced a great deal.”Minamifutsukamachi is in the old town from §2, near Mishima-Futsukamachi Station on the Sunzu Line. The city hall will move from its present site in Kitata-machi — which also means the way land around it is used may change. The city writes “including the use of the old site”.
How the land is used — 78% of the city is habitableIn the East Suruga Bay Wide-Area City Planning Basic Survey (FY Reiwa 5, as of March Reiwa 8), of the city's 6,202 hectares, 4,821.4 hectares (77.7%) are habitable and 1,380.6 hectares (22.3%) are not. The breakdown: forest 2,409 hectares, residential land 905.2 hectares, roads 543.1 hectares, dry fields 729 hectares, public and community facilities 305.2 hectares, paddy fields 249.8 hectares, industrial land 163.6 hectares and commercial land 116.9 hectares.
The urbanisation promotion area covers 1,366.8 hectares and the urbanisation control area 4,835.2 hectares, and the zoned areas total about 1,366.7 hectares. Category 1 exclusively low-rise residential zones alone cover about 390 hectares, and about 222 hectares of that carries a minimum plot size (165 to 200 square metres) — meaning those are areas that cannot be subdivided finely.
Sources: the redevelopment is from Mishima City, “About the station-front redevelopment” (updated 5 February 2026 / “For the east block, the Mishima Station Area Grand Design sets out a direction of building a wide-area health and medical hub, as the front of the Smart Wellness City.” “For the west block … a direction of building a wide-area tourism information hub, as the front of the Garden City.” / the Mishima Station Area Grand Design was adopted in March Heisei 24) and the same city, “5th Mishima City Comprehensive Plan, latter-term basic plan” (PDF, March 2026 / priority project 1, developing the area around the south exit of Mishima Station: “In the east block at the south exit of Mishima Station, an association-run redevelopment will build medical facilities, a hotel, shops and flats as a wide-area health and medical hub.” / priority project 3, attracting companies: “We will actively work to attract companies, starting with the Daiba area land readjustment project and the area along the Nishimakado-Araya line.” / from the foreword: “Work has begun on the long-standing task of redeveloping the east block at the south exit of Mishima Station; all 7 plots at the newly created Mitsuya industrial park have sold, and 6 of them will begin operating this spring.” “In the Daiba area, local landowners have formed a land readjustment preparatory association for about 20 hectares of farmland next to the ‘Daiba-Kannami IC’ on the East Suruga Bay Ring Road, and urban land use is being taken forward.” “On the new city hall, the ordinance setting the location of Mishima City's offices has been passed by the city assembly and the Minamifutsukamachi open space has been decided as the site; the groundwork for sustained development in future, including the use of the old site, has advanced a great deal.”) / the groundwater from the same city, “Mishima City's work on groundwater conservation” (updated 5 February 2026 / “In the course of hearing residents' views at public meetings and open houses as the project moves forward, opinions have been raised expressing concern about the effect on groundwater and springs, so to help more people understand, we set out Mishima City's work on groundwater conservation.” “To understand the effect of the project, Mishima City has carried out continuous groundwater monitoring since Heisei 28, using observation wells around Mishima Station.” “The monitoring measures the water level and quality (temperature, pH, EC, turbidity and so on), and the results are published on the Mishima City website every month.” “An ‘open letter of questions’ was submitted expressing concern about the effect on groundwater, and Mishima City has replied.”) and the same city, “Redevelopment around the south exit of Mishima Station” (11th meeting of the Groundwater Measures Review Committee for the development around the south exit of Mishima Station = 20 October) / land use from the same city, “Mishima Statistics 2026”, section “A Land and Climate” (Excel: 5 Current land use = as of March Reiwa 8, from the FY Reiwa 5 East Suruga Bay Wide-Area City Planning Basic Survey / urbanisation promotion area 1,366.8 ha, urbanisation control area 4,835.2 ha, 6,202 ha in total / habitable 4,821.4 ha 77.7%, non-habitable 1,380.6 ha 22.3% / forest 2,409 ha, residential land 905.2 ha, roads 543.1 ha, dry fields 729 ha, public and community facilities 305.2 ha, paddy fields 249.8 ha, industrial land 163.6 ha, commercial land 116.9 ha / source: City Planning Division) and section “K Civil Engineering, Land Use and Housing” (9 Area, floor area ratio and building coverage by zone = as of 31 March Reiwa 8, about 1,366.7 ha in total / Category 1 exclusively low-rise residential zones about 66.9 ha [60/40], about 4.3 ha [80/40, minimum plot 165 m²], about 98 ha [80/50], about 183.5 ha [80/50, minimum plot 165 m²], about 37.9 ha [80/50, minimum plot 200 m²] / source: City Planning Division) / checked 2026-08-24
What sort of people live in Mishima City?
The population is 103,790 in 50,052 households (as of 31 December Reiwa 7: 102,046 Japanese nationals plus 1,744 foreign residents). 🔴 The population peaked at 112,829 in Heisei 17 and has fallen by about 10,800 (9.6%) since. The number of households, however, has gone on rising, from 33,041 in Showa 62 to 48,938 in Reiwa 7. In Reiwa 7 there were 486 births, 1,357 deaths, 3,342 arrivals and 3,817 departures. There are 1,744 foreign residents, 1.5 times the figure ten years ago (1,157 in Heisei 27), the largest group being 329 from Vietnam.
CHAPTER 13What this place makes
What a place earns its living from shows up both at your dinner table and in your work once you live there. The amount raised through the hometown tax scheme is a rough measure of how many products a place has that people all over Japan choose.
¥350,480,000
Furusato tax donations received in FY Reiwa 7 (11,287 donations). 756th of the 1,788 municipalities in the country, and 25th within Shizuoka Prefecture
What this town names as its own products
Mishima's fields lie on the western slope of Mount Hakone. In the words of the Shizuoka Prefecture Eastern Agriculture and Forestry Office: “The fields spread over the western slope of Mount Hakone are volcanic-ash ground with good drainage and good sun, and the deep topsoil has long made them productive for root crops such as daikon and carrots.” “Carrot growing in particular was introduced in the middle of the Kamakura period, and the crop was sent to Kamakura and Odawara as an ingredient for temple cuisine.” As a growing district it began with the clearing of Mount Hakone in the late Meiji period. Today there are about 400 hectares under cultivation and about 280 farming households, and since the “Hakone-Seiroku Mishima Vegetable Brand Promotion Council” was set up in Heisei 25, only produce that passes dozens of checks may be called “Hakone-Seiroku Mishima vegetables” (40 growers are certified). • Mishima potatoes — registered under the Geographical Indication (GI) protection system in Heisei 28. The variety is May Queen, planted in February and lifted in June and July, and shipped to the Tokyo–Yokohama and Osaka–Kyoto markets • Mishima korokke — only a croquette made 100% from “Mishima potatoes” may use the name. In the words of the Mishima City Tourism Association: “They use 100% Mishima potatoes (May Queen), the flagship of the Hakone-Seiroku vegetables, dug by hand and left to mature properly before shipping.”91 shops in the city are certified • Mishima eel — in the words of the Mishima City Tourism Association: “The secret of Mishima eel is Mount Fuji's underground water. Exposing the eel to this water, drawn up from under Mishima, takes away any muddy or fishy smell and removes surplus fat, drawing out the real flavour.” The spring water of §1 leads straight into what people eat • Hakone-Seiroku Mishima vegetables — grown in fields above 50 metres. Root crops such as daikon and carrots; potatoes and sweet potatoes; leaf crops such as lettuce, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, broccoli and celery; and soft greens such as komatsuna, spinach and spring onions. Daikon and Chinese cabbage are sown in late August for harvest from October to January, cabbage in mid-August for late October to January, and sweet potatoes in May for August to October • Things that carry the Mishima name — Mishima sweet potatoes, Mishima daikon, Mishima carrots, Mishima celery, Mishima nanakusa herbs, Mishima broccoli, Mishima tomatoes, Mishima mangoes and Mishima wasabi (from the Mishima City Tourism Association's “Eat” page) • Livestock, fruit and flowers — Hakone-Seiroku beef, Hakone-Sanroku pork, Hakone Mishima pork, kesatama and Hinode eggs, strawberries, melons and mangoes, and herbs, orchids and roses (same source). Strawberries (Mishima, Kannami, Izunokuni and Susono) and winter–spring tomatoes (Mishima, Kannami and Izunokuni) are listed separately by Shizuoka Prefecture as “local specialities” • Mishima Brand — more than 53 items are certified as the city's selected products (from the Mishima City Tourism Association's “Eat” page).
Even if a move is still some way off, you can be involved from today through the hometown tax scheme. Your donation goes straight to the municipality, and you choose what it is spent on. A way to give something back to a place you got to know here.
🔴 The Mishima City Federation of Neighbourhood Associations is made up of the federations of 6 districts (east, central, west, Kitaue, Nishikida and Nakazato), with 132 neighbourhood associations as members. The centre of the year is the Mishima Taisha Grand Festival from 15 to 17 August, which drew 430,000 visitors in Reiwa 6 (Mishima Taisha Shrine itself, 2,970,000). 🔴 Residents can join the “Yoritomo banner-raising procession” on 16 August by open application — in Reiwa 8 the city sought 3 women's roles, several foot-soldier roles and about 5 backstage staff. The Grand Bon Dance from 19:00 on 17 August is “open to anyone”. The city also has a “Mishima City grant for building new festival floats”.
CHAPTER 14A message from Mishima City
The latter-term basic plan of the 5th Mishima City Comprehensive Plan was only completed in March 2026. It runs from FY Reiwa 8 to FY Reiwa 12. The vision for the city is “Mishima: a city of streams, greenery and vigour, where happiness is felt”, with the subtitle “turning connections into strength”. The mayor writes that the city will “aim to be chosen by young people and by companies” and pursue “town-making that is first in Japan for well-being”, so that residents feel “glad to have been born in Mishima”, “glad to have grown up here” and “glad to have lived here”.
Item
In the city's words
The vision of the city to come
“Mishima: a city of streams, greenery and vigour, where happiness is felt” (subtitle: “turning connections into strength”)
Plan period
5 years, from FY Reiwa 8 to FY Reiwa 12 (latter-term basic plan). The implementation plan covers FY Reiwa 8 to 10
Basic goals (6)
1 A town where you can live safely / 2 A town that is healthy with good welfare / 3 A town that raises people for the future / 4 A town of exchange and bustle / 5 A town that is comfortable to live in / 6 A town that keeps developing, created together
Priority projects
1 developing the area around the south exit of Mishima Station 2 tourism 3 attracting companies (§12)
Something new
“We will newly use well-being indicators to make the city's strengths and weaknesses visible, and by making policy on objective data, raise the happiness of residents.”
Citizens' charter
Adopted 11 October 1970. “We are the citizens of Mishima, raised in the blessed nature at the foot of Hakone, looking up at Fuji morning and evening.”
“More people have moved in from the capital region to telework” — the mayor's reading of the presentStraight from the foreword of the latter-term basic plan: “As for the circumstances around this city in recent years, amid a falling and ageing population, lifestyles and values have diversified through the pandemic, more people have moved in from the capital region to telework, administrative procedures have moved online, cashless payment and the use of AI have spread, and with the rapid development of information technology the social and economic structure has changed a great deal.”The city itself writes that “more people have moved in” — the Shinkansen use survey in §3 and the migration grants in §8 both rest on that reading. The city was incorporated on 29 April 1941, and marked its 85th anniversary in April Reiwa 8, when the latter-term basic plan began.
“Garden City Mishima” and “Smart Wellness Mishima”In the mayor's words: “We will continue to pursue beautiful, dignified town-making and a healthy city through ‘Garden City Mishima’ and ‘Smart Wellness Mishima’, together with ‘bond-building’ that strengthens local connections.” As §12 explains, the east block at the south exit of Mishima Station is positioned as “the front of the Smart Wellness City” and the west block as “the front of the Garden City”.
Mishima City was selected as an SDGs Future City for FY2025, and the “South-East Fuji Smart Frontier Regional Circular and Ecological Sphere” has been certified by the prefecture. The city also has its own “Mishima City SDGs Declaration” scheme.
Where to ask, and where this page standsMigration and settlement are handled by the Policy Planning Division, Planning and Strategy Department; housing grants by the Housing Policy Division (Mishima Housing Promotion Office), Planning and Town Development Department; children's medical costs by the Children's Future Division (055-983-2712); water supply by the Water Division, Urban Infrastructure Department; sewerage by the Sewerage Division; and disaster preparedness by the Crisis Management Division. The city hall is at Kitata-machi 4-47, Mishima City (411-8666), and the main switchboard is 055-975-3111. Mishima City and Nagaizumi Town produce a joint migration brochure. There is also a guide to taxis within the city for people considering a move.
This site brings together the city's official information with sources attached; it does not speak for the city. Schemes, prices and charges change — especially the remaining budget and application periods for the grants in §8. Please always check the city's own latest pages and its offices.
Source:Mishima City, “We have adopted the latter-term basic plan of the 5th Mishima City Comprehensive Plan (the implementation plan is now published)” (updated 5 August 2026 / “The comprehensive plan sits at the top of the city's plans and guides how the administration is run. As the former-term basic plan ends in FY Reiwa 7, we have drawn up a latter-term basic plan covering FY Reiwa 8 to FY Reiwa 12.” / the implementation plan (FY Reiwa 8 to 10) was published on 5 August Reiwa 8) and the plan text PDF (March 2026 / 5th Mishima City Comprehensive Plan, “turning connections into strength”, “Mishima: a city of streams, greenery and vigour, where happiness is felt” / from the foreword: “This city was incorporated on 29 April Showa 16, and in April Reiwa 8, when the latter-term basic plan begins, it marks its 85th anniversary.” “As for the circumstances around this city in recent years, amid a falling and ageing population, lifestyles and values have diversified through the pandemic, more people have moved in from the capital region to telework, administrative procedures have moved online, cashless payment and the use of AI have spread, and with the rapid development of information technology the social and economic structure has changed a great deal.” “We will newly use well-being indicators to make the city's strengths and weaknesses visible, and by making policy on objective data, raise the happiness of residents.” “We will continue to pursue beautiful, dignified town-making and a healthy city through ‘Garden City Mishima’ and ‘Smart Wellness Mishima’, together with ‘bond-building’ that strengthens local connections, and towards the vision of ‘Mishima: a city of streams, greenery and vigour, where happiness is felt’ we will aim to be chosen by young people and by companies.” “We will pursue town-making that is first in Japan for well-being, so that residents feel ‘glad to have been born in Mishima’, ‘glad to have grown up here’ and ‘glad to have lived here’.” / basic goals 1 to 6 / priority projects 1 developing the area around the south exit of Mishima Station, 2 tourism, 3 attracting companies / Mishima Citizens' Charter, adopted 11 October Showa 45 (1970): “We are the citizens of Mishima, raised in the blessed nature at the foot of Hakone, looking up at Fuji morning and evening.”) / the SDGs Future City and the regional circular and ecological sphere from the same city, “Comprehensive plan and regional revitalisation” (Selected as an SDGs Future City for FY2025 / the South-East Fuji Smart Frontier Regional Circular and Ecological Sphere has been certified by the prefecture / Mishima City SDGs Declaration scheme) / the migration contacts from the same city, “Migration and settlement” (Mishima City and Nagaizumi Town have produced a joint migration brochure! / For those considering a move to Mishima City: a guide to taxis within the city!) / checked 2026-08-24
What kind of town does Mishima City aim to be?
🔴 The latter-term basic plan of the 5th Mishima City Comprehensive Plan was only completed in March 2026 (running from FY Reiwa 8 to FY Reiwa 12). The vision for the city is “Mishima: a city of streams, greenery and vigour, where happiness is felt”, with the subtitle “turning connections into strength”. The mayor writes that the city will “aim to be chosen by young people and by companies” and pursue “town-making that is first in Japan for well-being”, so that residents feel “glad to have been born in Mishima”, “glad to have grown up here” and “glad to have lived here”. The three priority projects are 1 developing the area around the south exit of Mishima Station, 2 tourism and 3 attracting companies. The mayor also writes, as a reading of the present, that “lifestyles and values have diversified through the pandemic, and more people have moved in from the capital region to telework”.
CHAPTER 15A year in Mishima
A year in Mishima is made of a winter without snow and a summer much like Tokyo's. The normals at the Japan Meteorological Agency's Mishima observatory give 0.0 days below freezing all day and 2 centimetres of snowfall a year, and 2.8 days above 35°C and 15.2 tropical nights. There are 32.0 days below freezing at night, so mornings do freeze. The centre of the calendar is the Mishima Taisha Grand Festival, 15 to 17 August, and the fireflies on the Genbei River in early summer. In the fields, Mishima potatoes come in June and July and daikon, Chinese cabbage and cabbage from October to January (§13). The wettest month is September with 241.8 mm and the driest December with 65.1 mm.
Season
What there is
Winter (December to February)
The January daily high is 11.5°C and the daily low 0.8°C. 0.0 days a year stay below freezing all day — there is no day when it is below freezing in the daytime. But there are 32.0 days a year below freezing at night, so mornings freeze. Snowfall totals 2 centimetres a year, with 1 centimetre at the deepest. Rainfall is at its lowest too, 65.1 mm in December and 73.2 mm in January. In the fields, daikon, Chinese cabbage and cabbage keep coming in until January (§13)
Spring (March to May)
The daily high is 15.3°C in March, 19.9°C in April and 23.9°C in May. The city flower, the “Mishima cherry”, was born at the National Institute of Genetics, as §1 explains. The city's rivers are cleaned on the second Saturday of May (the Genbei River and others). This is the season when the Mishima potatoes planted in February are growing (§13)
Rainy season (June to July)
212.7 mm in June and 223.4 mm in July. The daily high is 26.5°C in June and 30.2°C in July. Fireflies appear on the Genbei River in early summer — in the city's words, “along with the spring water, fireflies can be seen in the city in early summer”. The Ministry of the Environment's citation also says “Mishima baikamo water crowfoot and genji fireflies appear here”. In the fields, the Mishima potatoes are lifted in June and July (§13)
Summer (August)
The August daily high is 31.8°C and the daily low 23.7°C. 2.8 days a year are above 35°C (Tokyo 4.8), and there are 15.2 tropical nights a year. Rainfall 168.5 mm. 15 to 17 August is the Mishima Taisha Grand Festival — the Yoritomo banner-raising procession on the 16th and the Grand Bon Dance from 19:00 on the 17th (§11). 430,000 people came in Reiwa 6.Daikon and Chinese cabbage are sown in late August (§13)
Autumn (September to November)
The wettest month of the year is September with 241.8 mm, then October with 215.7 mm. The daily high is 28.6°C in September, 23.5°C in October and 18.6°C in November. This is typhoon season, and it is exactly what the Daiba River hazard maps in §5 model. The “Zero Rubbish Campaign” is in October, and Mishima Mugizora, the Mishima Food Festival and the Mishima Gyoza Festival in November (§11). Cabbage is cut from late October and daikon from October (§13)
Sources: the climate is the same as §6 (Japan Meteorological Agency normals for “Mishima”, 1991 to 2020) / the fireflies from Mishima City, “Mishima, city of water” (“along with the spring water, fireflies can be seen in the city in early summer”) and Ministry of the Environment, “Japan's 100 finest waters of the Heisei era: the Genbei River” (“Mishima baikamo water crowfoot and genji fireflies appear here”) / the events are as in §11 and the crop seasons as in §13 / dates and details change from year to year. Please check with the organisers before you set out / checked 2026-08-24
The information on this site is gathered by an AI that visits primary sources — municipalities, the Japan Meteorological Agency, national statistics — on a regular cycle, and it is updated with a source and a date of verification attached.
What are Mishima City's local specialities?
🔴 “Mishima potatoes” were registered under the Geographical Indication (GI) protection system in Heisei 28. The variety is May Queen, and only a croquette made 100% from it may be called a “Mishima korokke” (91 shops in the city are certified). The fields are on the western slope of Mount Hakone, and in the prefecture's words: “The fields spread over the western slope of Mount Hakone are volcanic-ash ground with good drainage and good sun, and the deep topsoil has long made them productive for root crops such as daikon and carrots.” There are about 400 hectares under cultivation and about 280 farming households, and the “Hakone-Seiroku Mishima Vegetable Brand Promotion Council” set up in Heisei 25 has certified 40 growers. There is also Mishima eel (rested in Mount Fuji's underground water), and Mishima sweet potatoes, Mishima daikon, Mishima carrots, Mishima celery and Mishima wasabi, among others.
CHAPTER 16The people who run this city
When you are thinking about moving, who is running this town, and where they are taking it, is something a future resident wants to know even more than someone already living there. This chapter sets out, with sources, only what Mishima City publishes itself. 🔴 As of 24 August 2026, following the official site, I (the AI) could find 3 of the 6 things below. The mayor of Mishima City is Toyooka Takeshi (confirmed on the city's own profile page).
How much of the council can you see?A list of members, live or recorded broadcasts of full sessions, and searchable minutes — where these three are published, you can read a town's debates for yourself before you ever move there. 🔴 The names, photographs and social media of individual council members are not carried on this site. We point you to where you can read them. Once you have moved, when your own turn to decide comes round is something those three will tell you.
How many years ahead has been decidedIn Mishima City,Comprehensive plan and regional revitalisation. A master plan usually sets outwhat the town has decided to do and by whenand ,where it intends to halt its population decline. 🔴 The period and the population target are not copied out on this site — plans get revised, and a misreading changes the meaning.Please check the official text from the link below.Comprehensive plan and regional revitalisation →
🔴 What I do not do in this chapter1. I do not guess sex or age from a name. Only what is published is shown. 2. I do not write judgements of good or bad. Only what is set out, and where it comes from. 3. I do not compare election candidates. 🔴 And mayors change. This site always records the date it checked (24 August 2026) and reopens the original page each time to verify by machine that the name is still there. If you notice something out of date even so, please let us know.
Source: allofficial site (Mishima City) on 24 August 2026. What this site counted is only whether something is published or not — it makes no judgement about the content / checked 2026-08-24
Who runs Mishima City now?
The mayor of Mishima City is Toyooka Takeshi (confirmed on the city's profile page on 24 August 2026). What this site looks at is six things: the mayor's introduction, the policy address, the list of assembly members, live and recorded assembly broadcasts, a minutes search, and the comprehensive plan. 🔴 It makes no judgement of good or bad. Only whether each is published or not.
CHAPTER 17Where to go on a day off
Days off never show up in the numbers when you are house-hunting, yet they matter directly to how happy you are once you live there. This chapter counts, on the same measure for every area, the places you can go on a day off in Mishima and the places family and friends can stay. This is a town with the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. The area currently has 5 hot spring and day bathing facilities, 2 amusement parks, zoos or aquariums, and 2 RV parks. 🔴 Every figure is the number registered in the map data (OpenStreetMap) — there may well be more in reality.
Takekura Onsen, Yugo Mishima Onsen, Gokurakuyu Mishima, Takekura Onsen / Minakuchi-so and 5 in all
🏯 Castles and castle sites
Yamanaka Castle (Yamanaka-jō)
🎡 Amusement parks, zoos and aquariums
Mishima Skywalk, Shinrokuen (2)
🖼 Museums, galleries and memorial halls
Mishima City Museum, Mishima Taisha Treasure Hall, Sano Art Museum, Tamasawa Myohokeji Treasure Hall, the Mishima Calendar Master's House (5)
⛩ Shrines and temples
34 shrines and 34 temples. Those with a Wikipedia entry are Hokoji, Kamogawa Shrine, Mitsuishi Shrine, Renkeiji, Hongakuji, Rinkoji, Hachiman Shrine and Saifukuji
🚗 Roadside stations
Not found in the map data
🐕 Dog runs
Not found in the map data
Somewhere to stay — for family and friends, and for your own travels
What
Number counted
🏨 Hotels and ryokan
13
🏠 Guesthouses and hostels
Not found in the map data
⛺ Campsites and auto-campsites
Not found in the map data
🏕 Glamping
Not found among the campsite or hotel names
🚐 RV parks (overnight in your vehicle)
Convenience RV Park Lawson Mishima Daiba, RV Park smart Gokurakuyu Mishima
This table is the result of me (an AI) putting the same question to the map data for every area (areas are retrieved in batches, so the verification date on some pages is a day apart). Facilities not registered on the map are not counted. "Not found" does not mean "there are none" — nor that the town is any the lesser for it.
Are there places to go on a day off, and places to stay?
🔴 Mishima City is a town with the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. Counting from the map data (OpenStreetMap) and the RV Association and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism lists, there are 5 hot spring and day bathing facilities, 13 hotels and ryokan, 2 amusement parks or zoos (the Mishima Skywalk and Shinrokuen), 5 museums and galleries, 1 castle site (Yamanaka Castle) and 2 RV parks. Facilities not on the map are not counted, so there may well be more in reality (see §17).
What I (an AI) was able to find on this town's official site
This site reads the official websites of every area it covers against the same 30 items, out of 100,
measuring how quickly someone thinking of moving can reach the information they need.
What was measured is the official website of Mishima City, and the total was 55 points (measured 24 August 2026).
"Not found" does not mean "there is none." It means I followed the official site and could not find it. Tell us the published page and the next measurement will reflect it.
Area
Score
What was found
Getting started with a move
14 / 20
There is a relocation and settlement page / an advice desk (department, phone number, opening hours) / support schemes give amounts and conditions, and 1 more
Housing
0 / 15
Not found
The money side of living here
12 / 15
Water and sewerage charges are readable from a rate table; child-raising support is specific about amounts and scope; there are explanations of national health insurance tax and fixed asset tax
Disaster information
9 / 20
Hazard maps are published by district, in a machine-readable form (a map system or text PDF), and there is more than one way of giving warning
Industry and local produce
5 / 10
Hometown tax results are published year by year; there are support schemes for businesses and industry
Transport
10 / 10
There is a community bus timetable; fares are stated; the date of the last revision is given
Can an AI read it?
5 / 10
Every page carries an updated date; statistics are published as Excel or CSV
See all 30 items and the pages used to judge them3 / 3 There is a relocation and settlement page Migration and settlement Go and see →0 / 3 There is a dedicated relocation site Only pages within the official site3 / 3 A contact point (department, telephone, opening hours) 3 of department, telephone and opening hours were stated Go and see →5 / 5 Support schemes state amounts and conditions Both amounts and conditions Go and see →3 / 3 There is trial housing or a trial-stay scheme (within the relocation page) Go and see →0 / 3 Vacancies in trial housing are published Not found0 / 4 There is an akiya bank Not found0 / 4 Listings carry photographs, price, year built and floor area There is no property data this site can take in0 / 4 Completed deals are organised As above0 / 3 The conditions of use are stated Not found4 / 5 Water and sewerage charges are readable from a rate table The charges are given as figures in the text Go and see →5 / 5 Child-raising support is specific about amounts and scope The scope of free and subsidised care is stated down to the age Go and see →3 / 3 There are explanations of national health insurance tax and fixed asset tax Both the rates and the amounts are stated Go and see →0 / 2 Tie-ups with banks for mortgages and the like Not found5 / 5 Hazard maps are published by district 3 documents by district Go and see →0 / 5 Flood, landslide and earthquake are all covered Not found Go and see →0 / 3 The year the assumptions were last reviewed is stated Not found Go and see →1 / 4 Is it machine-readable (a map system or a text PDF)? A page only Go and see →3 / 3 Disasters are announced through more than one channel Disaster email / disaster app / social media / municipal loudspeakers Go and see →0 / 5 A list of local speciality products is on the official site Not found3 / 3 Hometown tax results are published year by year Entries for 2 financial years Go and see →2 / 2 There are support schemes for businesses and industry Commerce and industry Go and see →4 / 4 There is a community bus timetable Go and see →3 / 3 Fares are stated Go and see →3 / 3 The date of the last revision is given Running since 1 November Reiwa 4 Go and see →3 / 3 Every page carries an updated date 18 of the 20 pages read Go and see →0 / 2 There is a sitemap.xml Not found0 / 2 Site search runs on the server side We could not find a search form Go and see →2 / 2 Statistics are published as Excel or CSV Go and see →0 / 1 Open data is published Not found
Measured by this site. The official website URLs come from the municipal information published by Furusato Choice.
The score is a score for publishing information, not a score for how good a place is to live / checked 2026-08-24
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Fuyodai 3¥7,000,000Kitaue district (Tokura, Sano and Hikarigaoka, up on the hills)Elev. approx. 140 m / Land 254 m² (77 tsubo) / Building 113 m² (34 tsubo) / built 1975 / Nagaizumi-Nameri Sta. 30 min walk10 photos →
Yata¥9,000,000Nishikida district (Yata and Kawaharagaya, towards the old Hakone road)Elev. approx. 20 m / Land 159 m² (48 tsubo) / Building 67 m² (20 tsubo) / built 1977 / Mishima-Futsukamachi Sta. 18 min walk10 photos →
Wakamatsu-cho¥10,000,000The old town (around Mishima Station and Mishima Taisha Shrine)Elev. approx. 50 m / Land 177 m² (54 tsubo) / Building 115 m² (35 tsubo) / built 1993 / Mishima Station 17 min walk10 photos →
Tokura 3¥10,480,000Kitaue district (Tokura, Sano and Hikarigaoka, up on the hills)Elev. approx. 80 m / Land 155 m² (47 tsubo) / Building 95 m² (29 tsubo) / built 1982 / Mishima Station to 2.3km9 photos →
Daiba¥12,000,000Nakazato district (Daiba, Umena and Nagabuse, on the flat land)Elev. approx. 110 m / Land 201 m² (61 tsubo) / Building 94 m² (28 tsubo) / built 1994 / Kannami Sta. 35 min walk10 photos →
Fujimidai¥12,800,000Kitaue district (Tokura, Sano and Hikarigaoka, up on the hills)Elev. approx. 100 m / Land 206 m² (62 tsubo) / Building 110 m² (33 tsubo) / built 1984 / Mishima Station 43 min walk10 photos →
Fuyodai 1¥13,400,000Kitaue district (Tokura, Sano and Hikarigaoka, up on the hills)Elev. approx. 130 m / Land 198 m² (60 tsubo) / Building 96 m² (29 tsubo) / built 1977 / Nagaizumi-Nameri Sta. 27 min walk2 photos →
Higashidaiba 2¥13,800,000Nakazato district (Daiba, Umena and Nagabuse, on the flat land)Elev. approx. 70 m / Land 215 m² (65 tsubo) / Building 122 m² (37 tsubo) / built 1991 / Daiba Sta., 2.3km10 photos →
Fuji Village¥14,800,000Kitaue district (Tokura, Sano and Hikarigaoka, up on the hills)Elev. approx. 70 m / Land 181 m² (55 tsubo) / Building 97 m² (29 tsubo) / built 1983 / Mishima Station to 2.2km10 photos →
Fuyodai 3¥14,800,000Kitaue district (Tokura, Sano and Hikarigaoka, up on the hills)Elev. approx. 150 m / Land 281 m² (85 tsubo) / Building 95 m² (29 tsubo) / built 1977 / Mishima Station bus 13 min+1 min walk9 photos →
Higashidaiba 1¥14,800,000Nakazato district (Daiba, Umena and Nagabuse, on the flat land)Elev. approx. 60 m / Land 208 m² (63 tsubo) / Building 119 m² (36 tsubo) / built 1987 / Daiba Sta. 27 min walk9 photos →
Higashidaiba 1¥14,900,000Nakazato district (Daiba, Umena and Nagabuse, on the flat land)Elev. approx. 90 m / Land 248 m² (75 tsubo) / Building 135 m² (41 tsubo) / built 1991 / Daiba Sta., 2.6km10 photos →
Sano Miharashidai 1¥14,900,000Kitaue district (Tokura, Sano and Hikarigaoka, up on the hills)Elev. approx. 260 m / Land 289 m² (87 tsubo) / Building 137 m² (42 tsubo) / built 1993 / Susono Sta., 4.9km8 photos →
Kitazawa¥15,000,000Nakazato district (Daiba, Umena and Nagabuse, on the flat land)Elev. approx. 10 m / Land 198 m² (60 tsubo) / Building 67 m² (20 tsubo) / built 1973 / Daiba Sta. 12 min walk10 photos →
Yata¥15,980,000Nishikida district (Yata and Kawaharagaya, towards the old Hakone road)Elev. approx. 40 m / Land 146 m² (44 tsubo) / Building 94 m² (28 tsubo) / built 2003 / Mishima-Futsukamachi Sta. 18 min walk10 photos →
Higashidaiba 1¥16,600,000Nakazato district (Daiba, Umena and Nagabuse, on the flat land)Elev. approx. 90 m / Land 195 m² (59 tsubo) / Building 95 m² (29 tsubo) / built 1991 / Daiba Sta. bus 11 min+4 min walk9 photos →
Fuyodai 3-12-5¥16,800,000Kitaue district (Tokura, Sano and Hikarigaoka, up on the hills)Elev. approx. 170 m / Land 258 m² (78 tsubo) / Building 117 m² (35 tsubo) / built 1978 / Nagaizumi-Nameri Sta., 2.9km10 photos →
Fuyodai 1¥16,800,000Kitaue district (Tokura, Sano and Hikarigaoka, up on the hills)Elev. approx. 130 m / Land 308 m² (93 tsubo) / Building 111 m² (34 tsubo) / built 1978 / Nagaizumi-Nameri Sta. 22 min walk4 photos →
Higashi-cho 8-4¥16,990,000The old town (around Mishima Station and Mishima Taisha Shrine)Elev. approx. 20 m / Land 148 m² (45 tsubo) / Building 130 m² (39 tsubo) / built 1991 / Mishima-Tamachi Sta. 10 min walk10 photos →
Higashi-cho¥16,990,000The old town (around Mishima Station and Mishima Taisha Shrine)Elev. approx. 20 m / Land 148 m² (45 tsubo) / Building 130 m² (39 tsubo) / built 1991 / Mishima-Tamachi Sta. 12 min walk10 photos →
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