Honkawa-cho
Honkawa-cho is a tram stop in Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima. Honkawa-cho is situated nearby to Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum, as well as near Hiroshima Kinen Hospital.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum and Hiroshima Kinen Hospital.
Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum
Museum
Photo: Kiyokun, Public domain.
The Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum is a museum of the Peace in Honkawacho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan. The school was the closest school to ground zero of the Hiroshima bombing.
Hiroshima Kinen Hospital
Hospital
Hiroshima Kinen Hospital is situated 160 metres southwest of Honkawa-cho.
Shima Naika Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Shima Hospital is a Japanese hospital, now clinic, in Hiroshima, Japan. It was the exact location where the atomic bombing of Hiroshima took place on August 6, 1945. Shima Naika Hospital is situated 460 metres southeast of Honkawa-cho.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nagarekawacho and Nishi-ku.
Nishi-ku
Suburb
Photo: Taisyo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nishi-ku is one of eight wards in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The Hiroshima–Nishi Airport was located in Nishi-ku.
Minami-ku
Suburb
Photo: Lemon-s, Public domain.
Minami-ku is one of the eight wards of the city of Hiroshima, Japan. As of March 1, 2012, the ward had an estimated population of 138,471, with 66,706 households and a population density of 5,307.44 persons per km2. The total area was 26.09 km2. Minami-ku is situated 2½ km southeast of Honkawa-cho.
Honkawa-cho
- Type: Tram stop
- Also known as: “Honkawacho-eki” and “Honkawachō-eki”
- Categories: railway stop, transport stop, and transportation
- Location: Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Chugoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.39686° or 34° 23′ 49″ northLongitude
132.45043° or 132° 27′ 2″ eastElevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
8Q6J9FW2+P5OpenStreetMap ID
node 1785975599OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=tram_stopGeoNames ID
7562250
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In Other Languages
From German to Korean—“Honkawa-cho” goes by many names.
- German: “Honkawa-cho”
- Japanese: “ほんかわちょうえき”
- Japanese: “本川町”
- Japanese: “本川町駅”
- Korean: “혼카와초”
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