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Minami-ku

Minami-ku is one of the five wards of Kumamoto City, . Meaning literally "south ward," it is bordered by the , , and also by the cities of , and the towns of , and .
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  • Type: Suburb with 128,000 residents
  • Description: one of the five wards of the City of Kumamoto, Japan
  • Also known as: “Minami Ward” and “Minami-ku, Kumamoto”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kawashiri and Tomiai.

Railway station
Photo: くまもと急行鉄道, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Station is a passenger railway station located in the Minami-ku ward of the city of Kumamoto, , Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.The station was used as a filming location for the 2011 film "I Wish" by the Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda.

Railway stop
Photo: Junki.pc27, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Station is a passenger railway station located in the Minami-ku ward of the city of Kumamoto, , Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.

Railway stop
Photo: MaedaAkihiko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Station is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of , , Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Uto.

Photo: Jranar, CC BY 4.0.
is a city located in , . As of 31 July 2024, the city had an estimated population of 36,149 in 16127 households, and a population density of 490 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 74.30 km2.

Minami-ku

Latitude
32.7154° or 32° 42′ 55″ north
Longitude
130.6789° or 130° 40′ 44″ east
Population
128,000
Open location code
8Q4GPM8H+4H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3049853086
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
8739912
Wiki­data ID
Q876960
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Minami-ku” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Minami-ku”
  • Cebuano: “MInami-ku (subdistrito sa Hapon, Kumamoto-ken)”
  • Cebuano: “MInami-ku”
  • Chinese: “南区”
  • Chinese: “南區”
  • Danish: “Minami-ku”
  • French: “Minami-ku”
  • German: “Minami-ku”
  • Hungarian: “Minami-ku”
  • Indonesian: “Minami-ku, Kumamoto”
  • Irish: “Minami-ku”
  • Italian: “Minami-ku (Kumamoto)”
  • Italian: “Minami-ku”
  • Japanese: “Minami-Ku”
  • Japanese: “みなみく”
  • Japanese: “南区 (熊本市)”
  • Japanese: “南区”
  • Japanese: “熊本市南区”
  • Korean: “미나미구”
  • Russian: “Минами”
  • Serbian: “Минами-ку”
  • Turkish: “Minami, Kumamoto”
  • Vietnamese: “Minami, Kumamoto”
  • Vietnamese: “Minami”

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Highlights include 熊本市立とみあい図書館 and Tomiai.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Minami-ku”. Photo: Motoki-jj, CC BY-SA 3.0.