Since Maizuru City was for a long time a munitions city that had a Chinju-fu with a military capital both before and during the war, it has been an oceanfront-type heavy industrial city since the end of war.
舞鶴市は戦前・戦中は鎮守府も置かれ、軍都として軍需産業、また戦後は臨海型重厚長大工業都市とだった。