Owase is located in southeastern Kii Peninsula, in southern Mie Prefecture, facing the Gulf of Kumano the Pacific Ocean.

Combined with the high mountains falling almost to the sea, this gives Owase an extremely heavy annual rainfall of 3,850 millimetres (150 in), which is the highest in the world at low altitudes in subtropical and warm temperate latitudes.

[2] Only certain parts of southern Chile, coastal British Columbia and the Adriatic Sea coast have as much rain at low elevations outside the tropics.

The town of Owase was established in April 1889, within Kitamuro District of Mie Prefecture, with the creation of the modern municipalities system.

Yellowtail, amberjack, Japanese horse mackerel, sauries, sea bream and bonito are among the fish landed at Owase.

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