Tachinoura-kaigan

Tachinoura-kaigan is a quarter in Moji-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka. Tachinoura-kaigan is situated nearby to the quarter Shiranoe, as well as near the neighborhood Tanoura 3-chome.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hesaki Lighthouse and Shimonoseki City Art Museum.

Hesaki Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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Hesaki Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the Kiku Peninsula in Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was constructed in December 1870; the lighthouse was lit on 22 January 1871.

Shimonoseki City Art Museum is a public museum that opened in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, in 1983. The collection of some 2,200 items includes works by Kanō Hōgai, Kishida Ryūsei, Matsumoto Shunsuke, Takashima Hokkai, Oka Shikanosuke, and Kazuki Yasuo, as well as a New Kingdom Egyptian shawabti and Late Period image of Horus in the guise of a falcon. Shimonoseki City Art Museum is situated 3½ km northwest of Tachinoura-kaigan.

Shiranoe Botanical Gardens

Park

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Shiranoe Botanical Gardens is a park, which is situated 3 km south of Tachinoura-kaigan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karato and Shimonoseki.

Karato

Quarter

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Karato is the downtown area of the city of Shimonoseki, Japan. Located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, it is known for its fish market. Karato is situated 6 km west of Tachinoura-kaigan.

Shimonoseki

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Shimonoseki is a city in Yamaguchi prefecture and the westernmost municipality on Honshu, home to a quarter million inhabitants. The city has been at the center of Japanese history for centuries, but it's best known to culinary daredevils as the home of fugu, a pufferfish as cute looking as it is potentially lethal.

Tachinoura-kaigan

Type: Quarter
Also known as: “Tachinoura”, “Tachiura”, and “Tanoura-Tachinoura”
Category: locality
Location: Moji-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude

33.9644° or 33° 57′ 52″ north

Longitude

131.0098° or 131° 0′ 35″ east

Elevation

13 metres (43 feet)

United Nations Location Code

JP TNU

Open location code

8Q5HX275+QW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 8485066803

OpenStreetMap feature

place=quarter

GeoNames ID

1850634

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In Other Languages

“Tachinoura-kaigan” goes by many names.

Japanese: “たちのうらかいがん”
Japanese: “太刀浦海岸”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include 太刀浦運動広場 and 太刀浦埠頭公園.

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