Kokura
Kokura is an ancient castle town and the center of modern Kitakyushu, Japan. Kokura is also the name of the penultimate station on the southbound San'yō Shinkansen line, which is owned by JR West.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Kokura Station and Heiwadōri.
Kokura Station
Railway station
Kokura Station in Kokurakita-ku is the main railway station in Kitakyushu, Japan. It is part of the JR Kyushu network and the San'yō Shinkansen stops here.
Heiwadōri
Monorail station
Photo: そらみみ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Heiwadōri Station is a Kitakyushu monorail station in Kokura Kita-ku, Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Kokura Castle
Castle
Kokura Castle is a castle in Kitakyushu, Japan. It was built by Hosokawa Tadaoki starting in 1602, with construction completed in 1608.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kokuraminami-ku and Tobata-ku.
Kokuraminami-ku
Suburb
Photo: Kugel, Public domain.
Kokuraminami-ku is a ward of Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan. It is the southern part of what used to be Kokura City, which was merged into Kitakyūshū city when the latter was created out of the merger of five cities in 1963. Kokuraminami-ku is situated 4 km south of Kokura.
Tobata-ku
Suburb
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Tobata-ku is a ward of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. It is the smallest ward of the city at 16.66 km2. The population was 64,330 as of the national census in 2000. Tobata-ku is situated 5 km west of Kokura.
Yahatahigashi-ku
Suburb
Yahatahigashi-ku is a ward of Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan. It is the second smallest ward in Kitakyūshū after Tobata ward at only 36.36 square kilometres. Yahatahigashi-ku is situated 7 km west of Kokura.
Kokura
- Type: Locality
- Description: dissolved municipality in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
- Category: dissolved municipality of Japan
- Location: Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Urdu—“Kokura” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կոկուրա”
- Azerbaijani: “Kokura”
- Bulgarian: “Кокура”
- Catalan: “Kokura”
- Cebuano: “Kokura”
- Chinese: “小倉市”
- Dutch: “Kokura”
- Finnish: “Kokura”
- French: “Kokura”
- German: “Kokura”
- Hebrew: “קוקורה”
- Hungarian: “Kokura”
- Indonesian: “Kokura”
- Japanese: “小倉市”
- Japanese: “小倉町”
- Korean: “고쿠라시”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kokura”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kokura”
- Norwegian: “Kokura”
- Persian: “کوکورا”
- Polish: “Kokura”
- Portuguese: “Kokura”
- Russian: “Кокура”
- Serbian: “Кокура”
- Spanish: “Kokura”
- Swedish: “Kokura”
- Tamil: “கோகுரா”
- Thai: “โคกูระ”
- Ukrainian: “Кокура”
- Urdu: “کوکورا”
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