Ashikaga

Ashikaga is a city in Tochigi prefecture, , near the prefecture's border with . Ashikaga makes an ideal day trip from . It's a small city with a lot of history packed into an attractive and easily walkable radius, from the mound tombs and…
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  • Type: City with 148,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Ashikaga, Tochigi” and “Asikaga”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ashikaga Station and Banna Temple.

Railway station
Photo: Asturio Cantabrio, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station in the city of Ashikaga, , Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company. It is one of two main railway stations of Ashikaga; the other is of the private railway operator Tobu.

Buddhist temple
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Banna-ji is a Buddhist temple of the Shingon tradition in the city of Ashikaga, , in northern of . The honzon of the temple is a statue of Dainichi Nyōrai, leading to the temple's nickname of Dainichisama.

Railway station
Photo: Jara2000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yashū-Yamabe Station is a railway station in the city of Ashikaga, Tochigi, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tōbu Railway.

Ashikaga

Latitude
36.34° or 36° 20′ 24″ north
Longitude
139.4488° or 139° 26′ 56″ east
Population
148,000
Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)
Inception
January 1st, 1921
United Nations Location Code
JP ASG
Open location code
8Q8X8CRX+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1108891308
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1865005
Wiki­data ID
Q374477
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ashikaga” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أشيكاغا، توتشيغي”
  • Arabic: “أشيكاغا”
  • Asturian: “Ashikaga”
  • Bengali: “আশিকাগা”
  • Catalan: “Ashikaga”
  • Cebuano: “Ashikaga Shi”
  • Cebuano: “Ashikaga”
  • Chechen: “Асикага”
  • Chinese: “Asikaga-chhī”
  • Chinese: “足利”
  • Chinese: “足利市”
  • Czech: “Ašikaga”
  • Danish: “Ashikaga”
  • Dutch: “Ashikaga”
  • Esperanto: “Aŝikaga”
  • Finnish: “Ashikaga”
  • French: “Ashikaga-shi”
  • French: “Ashikaga”
  • Galician: “Ashikaga - 足利市”
  • Galician: “Ashikaga”
  • German: “Ashikaga”
  • Greek: “Ασικάγκα”
  • Gujarati: “અશિકાગા”
  • Hebrew: “אשיקגה”
  • Hindi: “अशिकागा”
  • Hungarian: “Ashikaga”
  • Hungarian: “Asikaga”
  • Indonesian: “Ashikaga, Tochigi”
  • Indonesian: “Ashikaga”
  • Irish: “Ashikaga”
  • Italian: “Ashikaga”
  • Japanese: “Ashikaga-shi”
  • Japanese: “あしかがし”
  • Japanese: “足利”
  • Japanese: “足利市”
  • Japanese: “足利町”
  • Kannada: “ಅಶಿಕಾಗಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Асикага”
  • Korean: “아시카가 시”
  • Korean: “아시카가시”
  • Latvian: “Ašikaga”
  • Literary Chinese: “足利市”
  • Lithuanian: “Asikaga”
  • Lithuanian: “Ašikaga”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ashikaga”
  • Malay: “Ashikaga”
  • Marathi: “अशिकगा”
  • Mazanderani: “آشیکاگا، توچیگی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Asikaga-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ashikaga”
  • Norwegian: “Ashikaga”
  • Persian: “آشیکاگا، توچیگی”
  • Persian: “آشیکاگا”
  • Persian: “اشیکاگا، توچیگی”
  • Polish: “Ashikaga”
  • Portuguese: “Ashikaga”
  • Romanian: “Ashikaga”
  • Russian: “Асикага”
  • Serbian: “Ašikaga”
  • Serbian: “Ашикага”
  • Serbian: “足利市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ashikaga”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ašikaga”
  • Sinhala: “අශිකගා”
  • Slovenian: “Ashikaga”
  • Slovenian: “Ašikaga”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آشیکاقا، توچیقی”
  • Spanish: “Ashikaga”
  • Spanish: “Asikaga”
  • Swahili: “Ashikaga, Tochigi”
  • Swahili: “Ashikaga”
  • Swedish: “Ashikaga”
  • Tagalog: “Ashikaga, Tochigi”
  • Tagalog: “Ashikaga”
  • Tagalog: “Asyikada”
  • Tajik: “Aşikaga”
  • Tajik: “Ашикага”
  • Tamil: “அஷிக்காக”
  • Tatar: “Асикага”
  • Tatar: “Ачикага”
  • Telugu: “ఆషికాగా”
  • Thai: “อาชิกางะ”
  • Turkish: “Ashikaga, Tochigi”
  • Turkish: “Ashikaga”
  • Ukrainian: “Асікаґа”
  • Ukrainian: “Ашікаґа”
  • Urdu: “اشیکاجا”
  • Uzbek: “Ashikaga (Tochigi)”
  • Uzbek: “Ashikaga”
  • Venetian: “Ashikaga”
  • Vietnamese: “Ashikaga, Tochigi”
  • Vietnamese: “Ashikaga”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ashikaga, Tochigi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ashikaga”
  • Yue Chinese: “足利”

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