Mooka 5.02

Mooka is a city located in Tochigi Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. As of January 2017, the city had an estimated population of 79,660 and a population density of 476 persons per km². Its total area was 167.34 km². Moka is known for the Mooka Railway, which operates steam locomotives. The train line stretches from Shimodate, Ibaraki to Motegi, Tochigi. The town produces 7,000 tons of strawberries annually. The name of the city is given as “Moka City” per the city’s official home page; however, the local train station is “Mōka Station”, and the direct transliteration of the city name into Hepburn romanization is “Mooka”.GeographyMooka is located in southeast Tochigi Prefecture.Surrounding municipalities Tochigi Prefecture Utsunomiya Oyama Shimotsuke Tsuga Ichikai Mashiko Kaminokawa Chikusei Sakuragawa