Mizuho (瑞穂市, Mizuho-shi) is a city located in Gifu, Japan.
[2] Per Japanese census data,[3] the population of Mizuho has increased rapidly over the past 50 years.
Under the Tokugawa shogunate, most of the area of Mizuho was part of Ogaki Domain or was tenryō territory administered by various hatamoto.
The modern city of Mizuho was established on May 1, 2003, from the merger of the towns of Hozumi (穂積) and Sunami (巣南).
Mizuho has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 18 members.