Japan
Hokkaido
Kamikawa-gun (Ishikari)

Takasu

Takasu is a town in in , . Translated into English, Takasu means "hawk's nest," the original Ainu name for the town.
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  • Type: Town with 7,020 residents
  • Description: town in Kamikawa district, Hokkaido, Japan
  • Also known as: “Takasu Cho”, “Takasu Chō”, and “Takasu, Hokkaido”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture and Inoue Yasushi Memorial Hall.

Museum
Photo: K. Takeda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
in Honor of Teijiro Nakahara is a sculpture museum in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan. The building was called the Asahikawa Kaikōsha and used as the officer's social club by the 7th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1902 until 1945. is situated 4½ km south of Takasu.

Museum
Photo: K. Takeda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Yasushi Inoue Memorial Hall opened in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1993. Dedicated to author Yasushi Inoue, born in Asahikawa in 1907, the museum displays some five hundred items from its collection of a thousand objects, mostly books. is situated 4½ km south of Takasu.

School
Photo: 逃亡者, Public domain.
is a school, which is situated 4½ km southeast of Takasu.

Takasu

Latitude
43.8433° or 43° 50′ 36″ north
Longitude
142.3544° or 142° 21′ 16″ east
Population
7,020
Elevation
125 metres (410 feet)
Open location code
8RM4R9V3+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 383073105
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7429586
Wiki­data ID
Q1348693
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Takasu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تاكاسو”
  • Asturian: “Takasu”
  • Burmese: “တခဆုမြို့၊ ဟော့ကိုင်းဒိုး”
  • Cebuano: “Takasu-chō”
  • Chinese: “鷹栖町”
  • Chinese: “鷹棲町”
  • Chinese: “鹰栖町”
  • Czech: “Takasu”
  • Dutch: “Takasu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاكاسو”
  • French: “Takasu”
  • German: “Takasu”
  • Hungarian: “Takaszu”
  • Ido: “Takasu, Hokkaido”
  • Ido: “Takasu”
  • Indonesian: “Takasu, Hokkaido”
  • Indonesian: “Takasu”
  • Irish: “Takasu”
  • Italian: “Takasu”
  • Japanese: “Takasu-chō”
  • Japanese: “たかすちょう”
  • Japanese: “タカスチョウ”
  • Japanese: “鷹栖村”
  • Japanese: “鷹栖町”
  • Korean: “다카스정”
  • Korean: “다카스초”
  • Malay: “Takasu, Hokkaidō”
  • Malay: “Takasu”
  • Persian: “تاکاسو، هوکایدو”
  • Polish: “Takasu-chō”
  • Polish: “Takasu”
  • Portuguese: “Takasu”
  • Russian: “Такасу”
  • Spanish: “Takasu”
  • Swedish: “Takasu”
  • Thai: “ทากาซุ”
  • Turkish: “Takasu”
  • Ukrainian: “Такасу”
  • Vietnamese: “Takasu, Hokkaidō”
  • Vietnamese: “Takasu”
  • Yue Chinese: “鷹栖町”
  • Yue Chinese: “鷹棲町”

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