Kariwa
Kariwa is a village located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 July 2019, the village had an estimated population of 4,578 in 1613 households, and a population density of 174 persons per km². The total area of the village was 26.27 square kilometres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 4,780 residents
- Description: village in Kariwa district, Niigata prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Kariha”
- Neighbors: Kashiwazaki and Nagaoka
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kariwa Station and Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.
Kariwa Station
Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kariwa Station is a railway station in the village of Kariwa, Niigata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant
Power station
Photo: Triglav, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant is a large nuclear power plant on a 4.2-square-kilometer site spanning the towns of Kashiwazaki and Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, on the coast of the Sea of Japan.
Arahama Station
Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arahama Station is a train station in the village of Kariwa, Kariwa District, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company. Arahama Station is situated 2½ km southwest of Kariwa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kashiwazaki.
Kashiwazaki
Photo: yoshi s, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kashiwazaki is a city located in the center of Niigata prefecture. It has a long coast along the Japan Sea.
Kariwa
- Categories: village of Japan and locality
- Location: Kariwa Mura, Kariwa district, Niigata, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.42231° or 37° 25′ 20″ northLongitude
138.62235° or 138° 37′ 21″ eastPopulation
4,780Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
8Q9WCJCC+WWOpenStreetMap ID
node 2258189123OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
1860039Wikidata ID
Q1347334
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Satellite Map
Discover Kariwa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kariwa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاريوا”
- Catalan: “Kariwa”
- Cebuano: “Kariwa Mura”
- Chinese: “刈羽村”
- Czech: “Kariwa”
- Dutch: “Kariwa”
- French: “Kariwa”
- German: “Kariwa”
- Hungarian: “Kariva”
- Irish: “Kariwa”
- Italian: “Kariwa”
- Japanese: “Kariwa-mura”
- Japanese: “かりわむら”
- Japanese: “刈羽”
- Japanese: “刈羽村”
- Japanese: “刈羽郡刈羽村”
- Korean: “가리와무라”
- Korean: “가리와촌”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kariwa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kariwa”
- Persian: “کاریوا، نیگاتا”
- Persian: “کاریوا”
- Polish: “Kariwa”
- Portuguese: “Kariwa”
- Russian: “Карива”
- Spanish: “Kariwa”
- Tagalog: “Kariwa, Niigata”
- Tagalog: “Kariwa”
- Thai: “คาริวะ”
- Turkish: “Kariwa-mura”
- Turkish: “Kariwa”
- Ukrainian: “Каріва”
- Uzbek: “Kariva”
- Vietnamese: “Kariwa, Niigata”
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