Wakasa
Wakasa is a town located in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2018, the city had an estimated population of 14,577 and the population density of 82 persons per km2. The total area of the town was 178.49 square kilometres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum and Mikatagoko parking area.
Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum
Museum
Photo: Yasunorihayashi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum is an archeological museum located in the town of Wakasa, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to the exhibition of Torihama shell mound as well as varve, oldest of which dating back to 70,000 years ago, discovered in the bottom of Lake Suigetsu, one of the Five Lakes of Mikata.
Fujii Station
Railway stop
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Fujii Station is a railway station in the town of Wakasa, Mikatakaminaka District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company.
Wakasa
- Categories: town of Japan and locality
- Location: Mikatakaminaka, Fukui, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
35.5432° or 35° 32′ 36″ northLongitude
135.9051° or 135° 54′ 19″ eastPopulation
15,800Elevation
243 metres (797 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP W9KOpen location code
8Q7QGWV4+73OpenStreetMap ID
node 3374087863OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Wakasa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “واكاسا”
- Asturian: “Wakasa”
- Burmese: “ဝါခါဆာမြို့၊ ဖုခုအိ”
- Cebuano: “Wakasa-chō (subdistrito sa Hapon, Fukui-ken)”
- Cebuano: “Wakasa-chō”
- Chinese: “若狭町”
- Chinese: “若狹町”
- Czech: “Wakasa”
- Dutch: “Wakasa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “واكاسا”
- French: “Wakasa”
- Georgian: “ვაკასა”
- German: “Wakasa”
- Hungarian: “Vakasza”
- Inari Sami: “Wakasa”
- Indonesian: “Wakasa, Fukui”
- Indonesian: “Wakasa”
- Irish: “Wakasa”
- Italian: “Wakasa”
- Japanese: “Wakasa-chō”
- Japanese: “わかさちょう”
- Japanese: “若狭町”
- Korean: “와카사정”
- Korean: “와카사초”
- Malay: “Wakasa, Fukui”
- Malay: “Wakasa”
- Northern Sami: “Wakasa”
- Persian: “واکاسا، فوکوئی”
- Persian: “واکاسا”
- Polish: “Wakasa”
- Portuguese: “Wakasa”
- Russian: “Вакаса”
- Skolt Sami: “Wakasa”
- Spanish: “Wakasa”
- Swedish: “Wakasa”
- Tagalog: “Wakasa, Fukui”
- Tagalog: “Wakasa”
- Thai: “วากาซะ”
- Turkish: “Wakasa, Fukui”
- Ukrainian: “Вакаса”
- Vietnamese: “Wakasa, Fukui”
- Vietnamese: “Wakasa”
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