Kawagoe Shi

Kawagoe is an old trading outpost of the ancient capital Edo. Located in Saitama prefecture, the city is now a small suburban city of around 33,000 people, but the preserved warehouse district draws around 4 million visitors to the city each year, and has earned the city the nickname of "Little Edo".

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Highlights include Kawagoe Castle and Kawagoe Station.

Kawagoe Castle

Castle

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Kawagoe Castle is a flatland Japanese castle in the city of Kawagoe, in Japan's Saitama Prefecture. It is the closest castle to Tokyo to be accessible to visitors, as Edo castle is now the Imperial palace, and largely inaccessible.

Kawagoe Station

Railway station

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Kawagoe Station is an interchange passenger railway station in located in the city of Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tōbu Railway and East Japan Railway Company.

Hon-Kawagoe Station

Railway station

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Hon-Kawagoe Station is a passenger railway station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line located in the city of Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Seibu Railway.

Kawagoe Shi

Also known as: “Kawagoe” and “Kawagoe-shi”
Location: Saitama, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude

35.9115° or 35° 54′ 41″ north

Longitude

139.4792° or 139° 28′ 45″ east

Population

349,000

Elevation

26 metres (85 feet)

Open location code

8Q7XWF6H+HM

GeoNames ID

1859739

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In Other Languages

“Kawagoe Shi” goes by many names.

Japanese: “かわごえし”
Japanese: “カワゴエシ”
Japanese: “川越”
Japanese: “川越市”

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Kawagoe Shi”. Photo: w00kie, CC BY 2.0.