Ashikaga
Ashikaga is a city in Tochigi prefecture, Japan, near the prefecture's border with Gunma. Ashikaga makes an ideal day trip from Tokyo. It's a small city with a lot of history packed into an attractive and easily walkable radius, from the mound tombs and…
- Type: City with 148,000 residents
- Description: city in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Ashikaga Shi”, “Ashikaga, Tochigi”, “Asyikada”, “Ашікаґа”, “اشیکاگا، توچیگی”, and “足利町”
- Neighbors: Kiryu, Ota, Sano, and Tatebayashi
Places of Interest
Highlights: Ashikaga Station and Banna Temple.
Ashikaga
- Categories: city of Japan, big city, second-level administrative division, and locality
- Location: Tochigi, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.34° or 36° 20′ 24″ north
Longitude
139.4488° or 139° 26′ 56″ east
Population
148,000
Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)
Established
January 1st, 1921
UN/LOCODE
JP ASG
Open location code
8Q8X8CRX+2G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Chechen: “Асикага”
- Chinese: “足利”
- Chinese: “足利市”
- Czech: “Ašikaga”
- Danish: “Ashikaga”
- Dutch: “Ashikaga”
- Esperanto: “Aŝikaga”
- Finnish: “Ashikaga”
- French: “Ashikaga”
- Galician: “Ashikaga - 足利市”
- Galician: “Ashikaga”
- German: “Ashikaga”
- Greek: “Ασικάγκα”
- Gujarati: “અશિકાગા”
- Hebrew: “אשיקגה”
- Hindi: “अशिकागा”
- 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”
- Kannada: “ಅಶಿಕಾಗಾ”
- Kazakh: “Асикага”
- Korean: “아시카가 시”
- Korean: “아시카가시”
- Latvian: “Ašikaga”
- Literary Chinese: “足利市”
- 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”
- Polish: “Ashikaga”
- Portuguese: “Ashikaga”
- Romanian: “Ashikaga”
- Russian: “Асикага”
- Serbian: “Ašikaga”
- Serbian: “Ашикага”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ashikaga”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ašikaga”
- Sinhala: “අශිකගා”
- Slovenian: “Ašikaga”
- South Azerbaijani: “آشیکاقا، توچیقی”
- Spanish: “Ashikaga”
- Swahili: “Ashikaga, Tochigi”
- Swahili: “Ashikaga”
- Swedish: “Ashikaga”
- Tagalog: “Ashikaga, Tochigi”
- Tagalog: “Ashikaga”
- Tajik: “Aşikaga”
- Tajik: “Ашикага”
- Tamil: “அஷிக்காக”
- Tatar: “Асикага”
- Tatar: “Ачикага”
- Telugu: “ఆషికాగా”
- Thai: “อาชิกางะ”
- Turkish: “Ashikaga, Tochigi”
- Turkish: “Ashikaga”
- Ukrainian: “Асікаґа”
- 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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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: 巴町 and 雪輪町.
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