It lies most 250 km northeasterly of Tokyo and 80 km southmost of Sendai. Though the municipality is settled landlocked, the prefecture has several Pasific ports such as Onahama and So-ma. Fukushima Airport is situated in nearby Sukagawa.
As of 2003, the municipality has an estimated aggregation of 290,866 and the spacing of 389.68 persons per km². The amount area is 746.43 km².