Wake
Wake is a town in Wake District, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The town is famous in the region for the 'Wamojiyaki' festival that takes place every year on August 15 during the Obon period, and the town is also home to the largest Wisteria park in Japan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include 県立和気閑谷高等学校 and Wake Fuji.
Wake
Railway stop
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wake Station is a passenger railway station located in the town of Wake, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bizen.
Bizen
Photo: 663highland, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bizen is a city located in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 January 2023, the city had an estimated population of 32,019 in 15,467 households and a population density of 120 persons per km². The total area of the city is 258.14 square kilometres.
Wake
- Categories: town of Japan and locality
- Location: Wake Chō, Wake district, Okayama, Chugoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.80283° or 34° 48′ 10″ northLongitude
134.1574° or 134° 9′ 27″ eastPopulation
14,400Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)Open location code
8Q6PR534+4XOpenStreetMap ID
node 1604593064OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1848935Wikidata ID
Q1156120
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Wake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “واكه”
- Asturian: “Wake”
- Basque: “Wake”
- Chinese: “和气町”
- Chinese: “和氣町”
- Czech: “Wake”
- Dutch: “Wake”
- Egyptian Arabic: “واخ”
- Finnish: “Wake”
- French: “Wake”
- German: “Wake”
- Hungarian: “Vake”
- Indonesian: “Wake, Okayama”
- Indonesian: “Wake”
- Irish: “Wake”
- Italian: “Wake”
- Japanese: “Wake-cho”
- Japanese: “わけちょう”
- Japanese: “和気”
- Japanese: “和気村”
- Japanese: “和気町”
- Korean: “와케정”
- Malay: “Wake, Okayama”
- Malay: “Wake”
- Persian: “واکه، اوکایاما”
- Persian: “واکه”
- Polish: “Wake”
- Portuguese: “Wake”
- Russian: “Ваке”
- Russian: “Вакэ”
- Spanish: “Wake”
- Swedish: “Wake, Okayama”
- Swedish: “Wake”
- Tagalog: “Wake, Okayama”
- Tagalog: “Wake”
- Thai: “วาเกะ”
- Turkish: “Wake, Japonya”
- Turkish: “Wake”
- Ukrainian: “Ваке”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Wake”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.