Shirakawa
Shirakawa is a town located in Kamo District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 January 2019, the town had an estimated population of 8,288 and a population density of 36 persons per km2, in 3159 households.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 9,120 residents
- Description: town in Kamo district, Gifu prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Nishishirakawa”, “Shirakawa Cho”, “Shirakawa Chō”, and “Shirakawa, Gifu”
- Postal code: 509-1192
- Neighbors: Ena, Gero, Nakatsugawa, and Yaotsu
Places of Interest
Highlights include Shirakawaguchi Station and Tō’un-ji Temple.
Shirakawaguchi Station
Railway station
Photo: Asturio Cantabrio, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shirakawaguchi Station is a railway station on the Takayama Main Line in the town of Shirakawa, Kamo District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company.
Shirakawa
- Categories: town of Japan and locality
- Location: Kamo district, Gifu, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.5808° or 35° 34′ 51″ northLongitude
137.1895° or 137° 11′ 22″ eastPopulation
9,120Elevation
432 metres (1,417 feet)Open location code
8Q7VH5JQ+8ROpenStreetMap ID
node 2017675512OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1851903Wikidata ID
Q1203350
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Shirakawa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيراكاوا”
- Armenian: “Շիրակավա”
- Asturian: “Shirakawa”
- Burmese: “ရှိရခါဝါမြို့၊ ဂိဖု”
- Cebuano: “Shirakawa-chō”
- Chinese: “白川町”
- Czech: “Širakawa”
- Dutch: “Shirakawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيراكاوا”
- French: “Shirakawa”
- German: “Shirakawa”
- Hungarian: “Sirakava”
- Irish: “Shirakawa”
- Italian: “Shirakawa”
- Japanese: “Shirakawa-chō”
- Japanese: “しらかわちょう”
- Japanese: “シラカワチョウ”
- Japanese: “白川町”
- Japanese: “西白川村”
- Korean: “시라카와정”
- Korean: “시라카와초”
- Malay: “Shirakawa, Gifu”
- Malay: “Shirakawa”
- Persian: “شیراکاوا، گیفو”
- Persian: “شیراکاوا”
- Polish: “Shirakawa”
- Portuguese: “Shirakawa”
- Romanian: “Shirakawa, Gifu”
- Romanian: “Shirakawa”
- Russian: “Сиракава”
- Spanish: “Shirakawa”
- Tagalog: “Shirakawa, Gifu”
- Tagalog: “Shirakawa”
- Thai: “ชิรากาวะ”
- Thai: “นิชิชิรากาวะ”
- Turkish: “Shirakawa, Gifu”
- Turkish: “Shirakawa”
- Ukrainian: “Сіракава”
- Ukrainian: “Шіракава”
- Uzbek: “Shirakava (Gifu, shaharcha)”
- Uzbek: “Shirakava”
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