Kokura

Kokura was an ancient castle town in Japan and the center of the city of , which is the second most populous city on the island of , after the city of .
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Photo: Masgatotkaca, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kokura Station and Heiwadōri.

Railway station
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in is the main railway station in , Japan. It is part of the JR Kyushu network and the San'yō Shinkansen stops here.

Monorail station
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Station is a Kitakyushu monorail station in Kokura Kita-ku, Kitakyūshū, , .

Castle
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is a five-story castle in , . A castle was first built at the current site in 1569. Construction of a more substantial replacement commenced in 1602 under the direction of daimyo Tadaoki Hosokawa.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kokuraminami-ku and Tobata-ku.

Suburb
Photo: Kugel, Public domain.
is a ward of Kitakyūshū, , . 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. is situated 4 km south of Kokura.

Suburb
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is a ward of , , . It is the smallest ward of the city at 16.66 km2. The population was 64,330 as of the national census in 2000. is situated 5 km west of Kokura.

Suburb
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is a ward of Kitakyūshū, , . It is the second smallest ward in Kitakyūshū after Tobata ward at only 36.36 square kilometres. is situated 7 km west of Kokura.

Kokura

Latitude
33.88333° or 33° 53′ north
Longitude
130.88333° or 130° 53′ east
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP KOK
Open location code
8Q5GVVMM+88
Geo­Names ID
1858956
Wiki­data ID
Q516373
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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”
  • Turkish: “Kokura”
  • Ukrainian: “Кокура”
  • Urdu: “کوکورا”

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