Buchen (Odenwald) is a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district in the north of Baden-Württemberg. Buchen is part of the European Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region. In the Middle Ages, the town of Buchen belonged to Kurmainz and was the district town of the dissolved, agricultural district of Buchen until 1973.
The municipality from Buchen (Odenwald) consists of the 14 districts of Bödigheim, Buchen, Eberstadt, Einbach, Götzingen, Hainstadt, Hettigenbeuern, Hettingen, Hollerbach, Oberneudorf, Rinschheim, Stürzenhardt, Unterneudorf and Waldhausen.