Asahikawa
Asahikawa is the second-largest city on the northern island of Hokkaido, Japan. It is located at the confluence of four rivers and is surrounded by hills.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Shin-Asahikawa Station and Asahikawa-Yojō Station.
Asahikawa
- Categories: core city of Japan, big city, city of Japan, and locality
- Location: Northern Hokkaido, Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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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
UN/LOCODE
JP AKJ
Open location code
8RM4Q9C7+6X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Burmese: “အဆဟိခဝမြို့”
- Catalan: “Asahikawa”
- Cebuano: “Asahikawa”
- Chechen: “Асахикава”
- Chinese: “旭川市”
- Czech: “Asahikawa”
- Danish: “Asahikawa”
- Dutch: “Asahikawa”
- Esperanto: “Asahikaŭa”
- Estonian: “Asahikawa”
- Finnish: “Asahikawa”
- French: “Asahikawa”
- Galician: “Asahikawa”
- German: “Asahikawa”
- 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: “旭川市”
- Kannada: “ಅಶಹಿಕಾವಾ”
- Korean: “아사히카와 시”
- Korean: “아사히카와시”
- Latvian: “Asahikava”
- Literary Chinese: “旭川市”
- 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: “Asahikawa”
- Romanian: “Asahikawa”
- Russian: “Асахикава”
- Scots: “Asahikawa”
- Serbian: “Asahikava”
- Serbian: “Асахикава”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Asahikava”
- Silesian: “Asahikawa”
- Sinhala: “අසාහිකාවා”
- Slovenian: “Ašikava”
- South Azerbaijani: “آساهیکاوا، هوکایدو”
- 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”
- Waray (Philippines): “Asahikawa, Hokkaidō”
- Waray (Philippines): “Asahikawa”
- Welsh: “Asahikawa”
- Wu Chinese: “旭川市”
- Yue Chinese: “旭川市”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: 六条通九丁目 and 七条通九丁目.
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