Esashi
Esashi is a town in Hiyama Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital of Hiyama Subprefecture. One of the oldest towns in Hokkaido, the name Esashi comes from the Ainu word for kombu, a type of edible kelp well known in Japan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 7,430 residents
- Description: town in Hiyama district, Hokkaido, Japan
- Also known as: “Esashi Cho”, “Esashi Chō”, “Esashi-machi”, and “Esashi, Hokkaido”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hokkaido Hiyama Subprefectural Bereau and Kamome Island.
Hokkaido Hiyama Subprefectural Bereau
Government building
Photo: Soica2001, Public domain.
Hiyama Subprefecture is a subprefecture of Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan located on the Oshima Peninsula on the Sea of Japan side. It includes Okushiri Island. It was established in 1897.
Kamome Island
Islet
Photo: BATACHAN, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kamome Island is an island in the Sea of Japan just off the coast of the town of Esashi, Hokkaidō, Japan. The island serves as a breakwater for the Esashi port.
Ubagami Daijingū
Shinto shrine
Photo: Yauchi, Public domain.
Ubagami Daijingū is a Shinto shrine in Esashi, Hokkaidō, Japan. Its foundation date is uncertain but its existence is documented from the Edo period. It is considered the oldest Shinto Shrine in Hokkaido.
Esashi
- Categories: town of Japan and locality
- Location: Hiyama district, Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.8691° or 41° 52′ 9″ northLongitude
140.1272° or 140° 7′ 38″ eastPopulation
7,430Elevation
141 metres (463 feet)Open location code
8RH2V49G+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 420175148OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2130363Wikidata ID
Q1348738
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Esashi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إساشي”
- Asturian: “Esashi”
- Burmese: “အဲဆရှိမြို့၊ ဟော့ကိုင်းဒိုး (ဟိယာမ)”
- Burmese: “အဲဆရှိမြို့၊ ဟော့ကိုင်းဒိုး”
- Catalan: “Esashi”
- Cebuano: “Esashi-chō (subdistrito sa Hapon)”
- Cebuano: “Esashi-chō”
- Chinese: “江差町”
- Chinese: “江差町公所”
- Czech: “Esaši”
- Dutch: “Esashi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اساشى”
- French: “Esashi”
- German: “Esashi”
- Hungarian: “Eszasi”
- Ido: “Esashi, Hokkaido”
- Ido: “Esashi”
- Indonesian: “Esashi, Hokkaido (Hiyama)”
- Indonesian: “Esashi, Hokkaido”
- Irish: “Esashi”
- Italian: “Esashi”
- Japanese: “Esashi-chō”
- Japanese: “えさしちょう”
- Japanese: “エサシチョウ”
- Japanese: “江差町”
- Korean: “에사시정”
- Korean: “에사시초”
- Lithuanian: “Esašis”
- Malay: “Esashi, Hokkaidō”
- Malay: “Esashi”
- Persian: “اساشی، هوکایدو”
- Polish: “Esashi”
- Portuguese: “Esashi”
- Russian: “Эсаси”
- Slovenian: “Esashi”
- Spanish: “Esashi”
- Swedish: “Esashi”
- Thai: “เอซาชิ”
- Turkish: “Esashi, Hiyama”
- Ukrainian: “Есасі”
- Vietnamese: “Esashi, Hokkaidō”
- Yue Chinese: “江差町”
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Localities in the Area
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