Nishikan-ku
Nishikan-ku is one of the eight wards of Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. As of 1 June 2016, the ward had an estimated population of 55,963 in 20,369 households and a population density of 320 persons per km².| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 59,900 residents
- Description: one of the eight wards of the City of Niigata, Japan
- Also known as: “Nishikan Ward” and “Nishikan-ku, Niigata”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Maki Station and Ayamezuka Kofun.
Maki Station
Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Maki Station is a railway station in Nishikan-ku, Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.
Ayamezuka Kofun
Archaeological site
The Ayamezuka Kofun is a keyhole-shaped kofun burial mound located in the Takenomachi neighborhood of Nishikan-ku, Niigata in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1938.
Nishikan-ku
- Categories: ward of Japan and locality
- Location: Niigata, Niigata, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.7603° or 37° 45′ 37″ northLongitude
138.8892° or 138° 53′ 21″ eastPopulation
59,900Open location code
8Q9WQV6Q+4MOpenStreetMap ID
node 752398452OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Nishikan-ku” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نيشيكان-كو”
- Cebuano: “Nishikan Ku”
- Chinese: “西蒲区”
- Chinese: “西蒲區”
- Czech: “Nišikan-ku”
- Czech: “西蒲区”
- French: “arrondissement de Nishikan”
- French: “Arrondissement de Nishikan”
- French: “Nishikan-ku”
- German: “Nishikan-ku”
- Hungarian: “Nisikan-ku”
- Irish: “Nishikan-ku”
- Italian: “Nishikan-ku”
- Japanese: “Nishikan-ku”
- Japanese: “にしかんく”
- Japanese: “ニシカンク”
- Japanese: “新潟市西蒲区”
- Japanese: “西蒲区”
- Korean: “니시칸구”
- Lithuanian: “Nišikan-ku”
- Lithuanian: “西蒲区”
- Persian: “نیشیکان-کو، نیگاتا”
- Persian: “نیشیکان-کو”
- Portuguese: “Nishikan-ku”
- Russian: “Нисикан-ку”
- Spanish: “Nishikan-ku”
- Turkish: “Nishikan”
- Ukrainian: “Район Нісікан”
- Ukrainian: “Район Нішікан”
- Venetian: “Nishikan-ku”
- Vietnamese: “Nishikan, Niigata”
- Vietnamese: “Nishikan”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Maki and Hagayaba.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 西蒲区役所 and 巻郷土資料館.
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