Ito district
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- Type: County with 20,800 residents
- Description: district in Wakayama prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Ito County” and “Ito District, Wakayama”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kongobu-ji and Kōyasan Station.
Kongobu-ji
Buddhist temple
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Kongōbu-ji is the ecclesiastic head temple of Kōyasan Shingon Buddhism, located on Mount Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Its name means Temple of the Diamond Mountain Peak.
Kōyasan Station
Railway station
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Kōyasan Station is a passenger railway station in the town of Kōya, Ito District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway company Nankai Electric Railway.
Reihokan Museum
Museum
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
Kōyasan Reihōkan is an art museum on Kōya-san, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, preserving and displaying Buddhist art owned by temples on Kōya-san. The collection is centered around articles from the Heian and Kamakura periods and includes paintings, calligraphy, sutras, sculpture and Buddhist ritual objects.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Koya and Kōya.
Mount Koya
Photo: Fabimaru, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Kōya is a mountain in Wakayama prefecture to the south of Osaka, Japan, primarily known as the headquarters of the Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism.
Kōya
Town
Photo: Fabimaru, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kōya is a town located in Ito District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 November 2021, the town had an estimated population of 2,812, in 1,575 households.
Ito district
- Categories: district of Japan and locality
- Location: Wakayama, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.215° or 34° 12′ 54″ northLongitude
135.5584° or 135° 33′ 30″ eastPopulation
20,800Elevation
469 metres (1,539 feet)Inception
January 20th, 1879Open location code
8Q6Q6H75+X9OpenStreetMap ID
node 2489558575OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Ito district” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة إيتو”
- Belarusian: “Іто”
- Catalan: “districte d’Ito”
- Cebuano: “Ito-gun”
- Chinese: “伊都郡”
- Dutch: “District Ito”
- Dutch: “Ito District”
- Dutch: “Ito”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Ito”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Ito”
- French: “district d’Ito”
- French: “District d’Ito”
- French: “Ito-gun”
- French: “Ito”
- German: “Ito-gun”
- German: “Ito”
- Hungarian: “Ito körzet”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Ito, Wakayama”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Ito”
- Italian: “distretto di Ito”
- Italian: “Distretto di Ito”
- Japanese: “Ito-gun”
- Japanese: “いとぐん”
- Japanese: “伊都郡”
- Korean: “이토군”
- Low German: “Ito-gun”
- Low German: “Ito”
- Polish: “Powiat Ito”
- Portuguese: “distrito de Ito”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de Ito”
- Russian: “Округ Ито”
- Spanish: “distrito de Ito”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Ito”
- Thai: “อำเภออิโตะ”
- Vietnamese: “Ito (huyện)”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mount Benten and 弁天公園.
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