Higashi-ku

Higashi-ku is one of the 10 wards in , Hokkaidō, . It is directly translated as "east ward", and is neighboured to , , , Ebetsu, Tōbetsu.
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  • Type: Suburb with 262,000 residents
  • Description: one of the ten wards in Sapporo city, Japan
  • Also known as: “Higashi Ku”, “Higashi Ward”, and “Higashi-ku, Sapporo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hokkaido Ishikari Subprefectual Bureau and Ōdōri Park.

Government office
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Ishikari Subprefecture is a subprefecture of , , located in the western part of the island. The subprefecture covers 3,539.86 square kilometres and on July 31, 2023 had a population of 2,379,802.

Park
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Odori Park is a park located in the heart of , , Japan. Ōdōri means "large street" in Japanese. It stretches east to west through Nishi 1 chōme, Ōdōri to Nishi 12 chōme, Ōdōri, and divides the city into north and south sections.

Museum
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The is a museum located in the Sapporo Garden Park in Higashi-ku, , Hokkaidō, . Registered as one of the Hokkaidō Heritage sites in 2004, the museum is the only beer museum in Japan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kita-ku and Chūō-ku.

Suburb
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is a ward of composed of residential neighborhoods mostly arranged in grid patterns, and each built surrounding a train station, broken up by areas of farmland and some light-industrial areas.

Suburb
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is one of the ten wards in , , . means "central ward" in Japanese. City administration and entertainment facilities are centred in this ward.

Suburb
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is one of the ten wards in , Hokkaido, Japan. As of August 31, 2021, the ward has a population of 213,704. is situated 4½ km southeast of Higashi-ku.

Higashi-ku

Latitude
43.0762° or 43° 4′ 34″ north
Longitude
141.3636° or 141° 21′ 49″ east
Population
262,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
8RM339G7+FC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 364094941
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
7429526
Wiki­data ID
Q1134006
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Higashi-ku” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هيغاشي-كو”
  • Catalan: “Higashi (Sapporo)”
  • Catalan: “Higashi”
  • Cebuano: “Higashi-ku (subdistrito sa Hapon, Hokkaidō)”
  • Cebuano: “Higashi-ku”
  • Chinese: “东区”
  • Chinese: “東區”
  • Esperanto: “Orienta Kvartalo”
  • French: “Higashi-ku”
  • German: “Higashi-ku”
  • Hungarian: “Higasi-ku”
  • Indonesian: “Higashi-ku, Sapporo”
  • Irish: “Higashi-ku”
  • Italian: “Higashi-ku (Sapporo)”
  • Italian: “Higashi-ku”
  • Japanese: “Higashi-ku”
  • Japanese: “ひがしく”
  • Japanese: “ヒガシク”
  • Japanese: “札幌市東区”
  • Japanese: “東区”
  • Korean: “히가시 구”
  • Korean: “히가시구”
  • Persian: “هیگاشی-کو، ساپورو”
  • Persian: “هیگاشی-کو”
  • Polish: “Higashi-ku”
  • Polish: “Higashi”
  • Portuguese: “Higashi-ku”
  • Russian: “Хигаси-ку”
  • Russian: “Хигаси”
  • Spanish: “Barrio Higashi (Sapporo)”
  • Swedish: “Higashi-ku”
  • Thai: “เขตฮิงาชิ”
  • Turkish: “Higashi, Sapporo”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Хіґасі”
  • Ukrainian: “Район Хіґаші”
  • Ukrainian: “Хіґасі”
  • Vietnamese: “Higashi, Sapporo”
  • Yue Chinese: “東区”
  • Yue Chinese: “東區”
  • “Higashi-ku”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include 札幌市東区民センター and Sapporo City Higashi Ward Office.

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