Tokai
Tokai, is a small, affluent residential suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It is situated on the foothills of the Constantiaberg. The neighborhood is bordered by Steenberg and Kirstenhof to the south, Bergvliet to the east, and Constantia to the north.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Cape Town, South Africa
- Also known as: “Tokai, Cape Town”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pollsmoor Prison and Blue Route Mall.
Pollsmoor Prison
Prison
Photo: Discott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pollsmoor Prison, officially known as Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, is located in the Cape Town suburb of Tokai in South Africa. Pollsmoor is a maximum security penal facility that continues to hold some of South Africa's most dangerous criminals.
Blue Route Mall
Shopping center
Blue Route Mall is a shopping mall situated in the predominantly residential neighborhood of Tokai, in the Southern Suburbs region of Cape Town, South Africa.
Tokai Park
Forest
Tokai Park, previously known as "Tokai Forest", is a small wing, about 600 ha, of the greater Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa. Tokai Park is made up of two sections: upper and lower Tokai Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Muizenberg and Noordhoek.
Muizenberg
Photo: Hilton1949, CC BY 2.5.
Muizenberg is a beach-side town in the Western Cape, South Africa. It is situated where the shore of the Cape Peninsula curves round to the east on the False Bay coast.
Noordhoek
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Noordhoek is a seaside town between Kommetjie and Chapmans Peak on the Cape Peninsula. Its shoreline and its long, wide, sandy beach stretch south to the neighbouring village of Kommetjie.
Kalk Bay
Photo: Ken and Nyetta, CC BY 2.0.
Kalk Bay is a small fishing harbour along the east coast of the Cape Peninsula to the south of Cape Town. It has become a very hip and trendy place, with a fine selection of restaurants, coffee shops and bistros, and a number of eclectic, alternative shops along the Main Road on either side of the train station.
Tokai
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-34.06083° or 34° 3′ 39″ southLongitude
18.44167° or 18° 26′ 30″ eastElevation
35 metres (115 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA ZFAOpen location code
4FQWWCQR+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 262722290OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
3360456Wikidata ID
Q7813459
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Tokai” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tokai”
- Dutch: “Tokai, Cape Town”
- French: “Tokai”
- Indonesian: “Tokai, Cape Town”
- Japanese: “トカイ”
- Pedi: “Tokai”
- Turkish: “Tokai”
- Urdu: “ٹوکائی، کیپ ٹاؤن”
- Xhosa: “Tokai”
- Zulu: “Tokai”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Brocker Park and Tokai Community Church.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tokai”. Photo: Zaian, CC BY-SA 3.0.