22203 ／ ぬまづし
Shizuoka PrefectureAt the far end of Japan's deepest bay.
Numazu Port, Suruga Bay01 ／ Port
The fish market at Numazu Port (沼津港) is among the busiest in Japan by volume and value. Sunny, dry and swept by strong seasonal winds, Numazu suits the drying of fish, and its horse mackerel himono (あじのひもの), soaked in brine made with groundwater from Mt. Fuji, make it one of the country's leading producers.
02 ／ Deep sea
Heda (戸田), on the west coast of Izu, faces a Suruga Bay that drops to 500 m about 2 km from the harbour, and deep-sea fishing has gone on here for a long time. The trawl nets bring up the Japanese spider crab, the world's largest crab, and mehikari (greeneyes). Fishing pauses from May to September.
03 ／ Imperial villa
In 1893 the Numazu Imperial Villa was built for the future Emperor Taishō to rest. It closed in 1969 and became a memorial park, and in 2016 part of it was designated a national Place of Scenic Beauty as the former villa gardens (旧沼津御用邸苑地). The West Annex still holds the furniture of the time.
Living here
On the JR Tōkaidō Line it is 5 minutes to Mishima Station, where the Shinkansen stops, and 60 minutes to Shizuoka Station. The city has four stations on the JR Tōkaidō and Gotemba lines. The average annual temperature is 17.1°C, and it almost never snows in winter.
−3.2% since 2015
208,005 → 189,386
93.38km² of it habitable
2024
2.3 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
8.5 per 10,000 people
2023
Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-04-01 に編入合併（戸田村）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 市公式観光サイト「沼津観光ポータル」（運営は沼津市産業振興部観光戦略課）のアクセスの路線図（2026-09-24 閲覧）に載っている値 (checked 2026-09-24). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
31.1km
See the town as it is now.
Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
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