is a ward of the city of Sakai in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The ward has an area of 13.24 km2 and a population of 39,230. The population density is 2,960 per km2.
The wards of Sakai were established when Sakai became a city designated by government ordinance on April 1, 2006.
This ward includes the former town of Mihara, which joined Sakai by merger on February 1, 2005.
This article incorporates material from 美原区 (Mihara-ku) in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on June 23, 2009.