Japan
Hokkaido
Northern Circuit

Asahikawa

Asahikawa is the second-largest city on the northern island of , . It is located at the confluence of four rivers and is surrounded by hills.
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  • Type: City with 329,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hokkaido, Japan
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Shin-Asahikawa Station and AEON Mall Asahikawa Station.

Railway station
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is a railway station located in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company.

Shopping center
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is a shopping center.

Museum
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Asahikawa

Latitude
43.7706° or 43° 46′ 14″ north
Longitude
142.365° or 142° 21′ 54″ east
Population
329,000
Elevation
121 metres (397 feet)
IATA airport code
AKJ
United Nations Location Code
JP AKJ
Open location code
8RM4Q9C7+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 184366763
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2130629
Wiki­data ID
Q200740
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Satellite Map

Discover Asahikawa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Asahikawa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أساهيكاوا، هوكايدو”
  • Arabic: “أساهيكاوا”
  • Armenian: “Ասախիկավա”
  • Armenian: “Ասահիկավա”
  • Asturian: “Asahikawa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Asahikava”
  • Basque: “Asahikawa”
  • Bavarian: “Asahikawa”
  • Belarusian: “Асахікава”
  • Bengali: “আসাহিকাওয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Асахикава”
  • Catalan: “Asahikawa”
  • Cebuano: “Asahikawa-shi”
  • Cebuano: “Asahikawa”
  • Chechen: “Асахикава”
  • Chinese: “Asahikawa-chhī”
  • Chinese: “旭川市”
  • Czech: “Asahikawa”
  • Danish: “Asahikawa”
  • Dutch: “Asahikawa”
  • Esperanto: “Asahikaŭa”
  • Estonian: “Asahikawa”
  • Finnish: “Asahikawa”
  • French: “Asahikawa-shi”
  • French: “Asahikawa”
  • Galician: “Asahikawa”
  • German: “Asahikawa”
  • German: “旭川市”
  • Greek: “Ασαχικάβα”
  • Gujarati: “અસાહિકવા”
  • Hebrew: “אסהיקאווה”
  • Hindi: “असहिकवा”
  • Hungarian: “Aszahikava”
  • Ido: “Asahikawa, Hokkaido”
  • Ido: “Asahikawa”
  • Indonesian: “Asahikawa, Hokkaido”
  • Indonesian: “Asahikawa”
  • Irish: “Asahikawa”
  • Italian: “Asahikawa”
  • Japanese: “Asahikawa-shi”
  • Japanese: “あさひかわし”
  • Japanese: “旭川”
  • Japanese: “旭川区”
  • Japanese: “旭川市”
  • Japanese: “旭川町”
  • Kannada: “ಅಶಹಿಕಾವಾ”
  • Korean: “아사히가와 시”
  • Korean: “아사히카와 시”
  • Korean: “아사히카와”
  • Korean: “아사히카와시”
  • Korean: “욱천”
  • Korean: “욱천시”
  • Latvian: “Asahikava”
  • Literary Chinese: “旭川市”
  • Lithuanian: “Asahigava”
  • Lithuanian: “Asahikava”
  • Malagasy: “Asahikawa”
  • Malay: “Asahikawa”
  • Marathi: “असाहिकवा”
  • Mazanderani: “آساهیکاوا، هوکایدو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Asahikawa-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Asahikawa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asahikawa”
  • Norwegian: “Asahikawa”
  • Ossetian: “Асахикавæ”
  • Pampanga: “Asahikawa, Hokkaidō”
  • Pampanga: “Asahikawa”
  • Persian: “آساهیکاوا، هوکایدو”
  • Persian: “آساهیکاوا”
  • Polish: “Asahikawa”
  • Portuguese: “Asahigawa”
  • Portuguese: “Asahikawa”
  • Romanian: “Asahikawa”
  • Russian: “Асахикава”
  • Scots: “Asahikawa”
  • Serbian: “Asahikava”
  • Serbian: “Асахикава”
  • Serbian: “旭川市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Asahikava”
  • Sinhala: “අසාහිකාවා”
  • Slovenian: “Ašikava”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آساهیکاوا، هوکایدو”
  • Spanish: “Asahikawa Hokkaido”
  • Spanish: “Asahikawa Hokkaidō”
  • Spanish: “Asahikawa”
  • Swedish: “Asahikawa”
  • Tagalog: “Asahikawa”
  • Tajik: “Asahikaua”
  • Tajik: “Асаҳикауа”
  • Tamil: “அஸாஹிகாவா”
  • Tatar: “Асахикава”
  • Telugu: “అసహికావ”
  • Thai: “อะซะฮิกะวะ”
  • Thai: “อาซาฮิกาวะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Asahikawa”
  • Turkish: “Asahikawa”
  • Ukrainian: “Асахікава”
  • Urdu: “اساہیکاوا، ہوکائیدو”
  • Venetian: “Asahikawa”
  • Vietnamese: “Asahikawa”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Asahikawa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Asahikawa, Hokkaidō”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Asahikawa”
  • Welsh: “Asahikawa”
  • Wu Chinese: “旭川市”
  • Yue Chinese: “旭川市”

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