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Asakita-ku

Asakita-ku is one of the eight wards of the city of Hiroshima. The northern portion contains what was Asa-gun and southern Takata-gun, now defunct districts.
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  • Type: Suburb with 145,000 residents
  • Description: the northernmost of the eight wards of the city of Hiroshima
  • Also known as: “Asakita Ward” and “Asakita-ku, Hiroshima”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aki-Kameyama and Nakashima.

Railway station
Photo: 切干大根, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Station is a train station in Asakita-ku, Hiroshima on the Kabe Line operated by West Japan Railway Company. The station opened on March 4, 2017, but is at a different location than Station which closed in 2003.

Railway station
Photo: Taisyo, CC BY 3.0.
Station is a JR West Kabe Line station located in Kabe-Minami, , Hiroshima, , .

Railway station
Photo: そらみみ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station on the Kabe Line in Hiroshima, , Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company. The station opened on 4 March 2017.

Asakita-ku

Latitude
34.5183° or 34° 31′ 6″ north
Longitude
132.5078° or 132° 30′ 28″ east
Population
145,000
Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)
Open location code
8Q6JGG95+84
Open­Street­Map ID
node 384247279
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7374291
Wiki­data ID
Q63444
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Asakita-ku” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أساكيتا-كو”
  • Catalan: “Asakita-ku”
  • Catalan: “Asakita”
  • Cebuano: “Asa-kita Ku”
  • Chinese: “安佐北區”
  • Dutch: “Asakita-ku”
  • French: “Asakita-ku”
  • German: “Asakita-ku”
  • Hungarian: “Aszakita-ku”
  • Indonesian: “Asakita-ku, Hiroshima”
  • Indonesian: “Asakita-ku”
  • Irish: “Asakita-ku”
  • Italian: “Asakita-ku”
  • Japanese: “あさきたく”
  • Japanese: “アサキタク”
  • Japanese: “安佐北区”
  • Japanese: “広島市安佐北区”
  • Korean: “아사키타구”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Asakita-ku”
  • Portuguese: “Asakita-ku”
  • Russian: “Асакита-ку, Хиросима”
  • Russian: “Асакита”
  • Spanish: “Asakita-ku”
  • Thai: “เขตอาซากิตะ”
  • Turkish: “Asakita”
  • Ukrainian: “Аса-Кіта-ку”
  • Ukrainian: “Аса-Кіта”
  • Ukrainian: “Асакіта-ку”
  • Ukrainian: “Асакіта”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Аса-Кіта”
  • Venetian: “Asakita-ku”
  • Vietnamese: “Asakita-ku”
  • Vietnamese: “Asakita”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Kabe 4-chome and Kabe 5-chome.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include 安佐北区役所 and 安佐北警察署.

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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 “Asakita-ku”. Photo: Taisyo, CC BY 3.0.