Hikawa
Hikawa is a town located in Yatsushiro District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 August 2024, the town had an estimated population of 10,775 in 4567 households, and a population density of 320 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 33.36 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 12,000 residents
- Description: town in Yatsushiro district, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Hikawa Cho”, “Hikawa Chō”, and “Hikawa, Kumamoto”
- Neighbors: Uki and Yatsushiro
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arisa Station and Ōno-no-Iwa Kofun.
Arisa Station
Railway station
Photo: 藻南官舎前, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arisa Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.
Ōno-no-Iwa Kofun
Archaeological site
Ōno-no-Iwaya Kofun is a Kofun period keyhole-shaped burial mound, located in the Ryūhoku neighborhood of the town of Hikawa, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Ōno-no-Iwa Kofun is situated 3½ km southeast of Hikawa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uki.
Uki
Photo: MK Products, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Uki is a city in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 September 2024, the city had an estimated population of 56,491 in 25302 households, and a population density of 300 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 188.67 km2.
Hikawa
- Categories: town of Japan and locality
- Location: Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.5881° or 32° 35′ 17″ northLongitude
130.669° or 130° 40′ 8″ eastPopulation
12,000Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
8Q4GHMQ9+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 739281359OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
7413168Wikidata ID
Q1184800
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Hikawa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هيكاوا”
- Asturian: “Hikawa”
- Burmese: “ဟိခဝမြို့”
- Catalan: “Hikawa”
- Cebuano: “Hikawa-chō”
- Chinese: “冰川町”
- Czech: “Hikawa”
- Dutch: “Hikawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هيكاوا”
- French: “Hikawa”
- German: “Hikawa”
- Hungarian: “Hikava”
- Irish: “Hikawa”
- Italian: “Hikawa”
- Japanese: “ひかわちょう”
- Japanese: “ヒカワチョウ”
- Japanese: “氷川町”
- Korean: “히카와정”
- Malay: “Hikawa, Kumamoto”
- Malay: “Hikawa”
- Persian: “هیکاوا، کوماموتو”
- Persian: “هیکاوا”
- Polish: “Hikawa”
- Portuguese: “Hikawa”
- Russian: “Хикава”
- Spanish: “Hikawa”
- Swedish: “Hikawa”
- Tagalog: “Hikawa, Kumamoto”
- Tagalog: “Hikawa”
- Thai: “ฮิกาวะ”
- Turkish: “Hikawa”
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