Wako
Wakō is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 January 2021, the city had an estimated population of 84,161 in 42,434 households and a population density of 7600 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 11.04 square kilometres.Photo: Nomansland511, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Asaka Station and JGSDF Public Information Center.
Asaka Station
Railway station
Photo: 京浜にけ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Asaka Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Asaka, Saitama, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tōbu Railway.
JGSDF Public Information Center
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
JGSDF Public Information Center is a museum.
Ōizumi-Chūō Park
Park
Ōizumi-Chūō Park is a Tokyo metropolitan park located in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, Japan. It was opened in 1990 and covers an area of 103,000 m2.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Asaka and Takashimadaira.
Asaka
Asaka is a small city in Saitama, right across the river from Saitama City. Asaka is primarily a bedroom community with over 37% of its population commuting to the Tokyo metropolis for work.
Hikarigaoka
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hikarigaoka is a neighborhood of Nerima Ward in Tokyo, Japan. The residential address system has been implemented since 1983, and the current administrative names go from Hikarigaoka 1st Street to 7th Street.
Wako
- Categories: city of Japan and locality
- Location: Wako-shi, Saitama, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.7817° or 35° 46′ 54″ northLongitude
139.6059° or 139° 36′ 21″ eastPopulation
82,000Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP WOTOpen location code
8Q7XQJJ4+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 622868936OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Wako” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “واكو، سايتاما”
- Arabic: “واكو”
- Armenian: “Վակո”
- Asturian: “Wakō”
- Bengali: “ওয়াক”
- Catalan: “Wakō”
- Cebuano: “Wakō-shi”
- Chechen: “Вако”
- Chinese: “Wakô-chhī”
- Chinese: “和光”
- Chinese: “和光市”
- Czech: “Wakó”
- Danish: “Wako”
- Dutch: “Wako”
- Esperanto: “Ŭakō”
- Esperanto: “Vakō”
- Finnish: “Wakō”
- French: “Wakō”
- Galician: “Wakō”
- German: “Wako”
- German: “Wakō”
- Greek: “Βακό”
- Gujarati: “વાકો”
- Hindi: “वाको सिटी”
- Hungarian: “Vakó”
- Indonesian: “Wakō, Saitama”
- Indonesian: “Wakō”
- Irish: “Wakō”
- Italian: “Wakō”
- Japanese: “Wakō-shi”
- Japanese: “わこうし”
- Japanese: “和光”
- Japanese: “和光市”
- Japanese: “大和町”
- Kannada: “ವಕೊ”
- Korean: “와꼬시”
- Korean: “와코시”
- Latvian: “Vaka”
- Literary Chinese: “和光市”
- Lithuanian: “Vakas”
- Malay: “Wakō, Saitama”
- Malay: “Wako”
- Marathi: “वको”
- Mazanderani: “واکو، سایتاما”
- Mazanderani: “واکو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wakô-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wako”
- Persian: “واکو، سایتاما”
- Persian: “واکو”
- Polish: “Wako”
- Polish: “Wakō”
- Portuguese: “Wako”
- Romanian: “Wako”
- Romanian: “Wakō”
- Russian: “Вако”
- Sinhala: “වකෝ”
- South Azerbaijani: “واکو، سایتاما”
- South Azerbaijani: “واکو”
- Spanish: “Wakō”
- Swedish: “Wakō, Saitama”
- Swedish: “Wakō”
- Tagalog: “Wako, Saitama”
- Tagalog: “Wako”
- Tajik: “Уако”
- Tamil: “வாகோ”
- Tatar: “Вако”
- Telugu: “వాకో”
- Thai: “วาโก”
- Turkish: “Wakō”
- Ukrainian: “Вако”
- Urdu: “واکو، سائیتاما”
- Urdu: “واکو”
- Uzbek: “Wako”
- Vietnamese: “Wakō, Saitama”
- Vietnamese: “Wakō”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wakō, Saitama”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wakō”
- Yue Chinese: “和光”
- “Wakō”
- “Wakō-shi”
- “和光市”
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Highlights include 和光市役所 and 和光市民文化センター 展示ホール.
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