Awa
Awa is a city located in the north-central part of Tokushima prefecture, on the north bank of the Yoshino river. Itano-cho lies to the East, Mima City to the West, Yoshinogawa City to the South, and Kagawa prefecture is located to the North.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 34,700 residents
- Description: city in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Awa, Tokushima”
- Neighbors: Higashikagawa, Mima, and Sanuki
Places of Interest
Highlights include 10 Kirihataji and 09 Horin-ji.
10 Kirihataji
Buddhist temple
Photo: Reggaeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kirihata-ji is a Kōya-san Shingon temple in Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Temple 10 on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage, the main image is of Senjū Kannon.
09 Horin-ji
Buddhist temple
Photo: Naokijp, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hōrin-ji is a Kōya-san Shingon temple in Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Temple 9 on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage, the main image is of Parinirvana Shaka Nyorai. The temple is said to have been founded by Kōbō Daishi, who carved the image.
Awa
- Categories: city of Japan and locality
- Location: Tokushima, Shikoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.1021° or 34° 6′ 8″ northLongitude
134.2976° or 134° 17′ 51″ eastPopulation
34,700Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)Open location code
8Q6P472X+V2OpenStreetMap ID
node 309631884OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
11612333Wikidata ID
Q791587
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Awa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوا، توكوشيما”
- Arabic: “أوا”
- Armenian: “Ավա”
- Asturian: “Awa”
- Bengali: “আওয়া”
- Catalan: “Awa”
- Cebuano: “Awa-shi”
- Chechen: “Ава (гӀала, Япон)”
- Chechen: “Ава”
- Chinese: “Awa-chhī”
- Chinese: “阿波”
- Chinese: “阿波市”
- Czech: “Awa”
- Danish: “Awa”
- Dutch: “Awa”
- Estonian: “Awa”
- Finnish: “Awa”
- French: “Awa”
- Galician: “Awa”
- German: “Awa”
- Greek: “Άβα”
- Gujarati: “આવા”
- Hindi: “आवा”
- Hungarian: “Ava”
- Indonesian: “Awa, Tokushima”
- Indonesian: “Awa”
- Irish: “Awa”
- Italian: “Awa”
- Japanese: “Awa-shi”
- Japanese: “あわし”
- Japanese: “阿波”
- Japanese: “阿波市”
- Kannada: “ಅವಾ”
- Korean: “아와시”
- Latvian: “Ava”
- Literary Chinese: “阿波市”
- Lithuanian: “Ava”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Awa”
- Malay: “Awa”
- Marathi: “आव”
- Mazanderani: “آوا، توکوشیما”
- Mazanderani: “آوا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Awa-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Awa”
- Persian: “آوا، توکوشیما”
- Persian: “آوا”
- Persian: “اوا، توکوشیما”
- Polish: “Awa”
- Portuguese: “Awa (cidade)”
- Portuguese: “Awa (província de Tokushima)”
- Portuguese: “Awa”
- Romanian: “Awa, tokushima”
- Romanian: “Awa”
- Russian: “Ава (город, Япония)”
- Russian: “Ава”
- Sinhala: “අවා”
- South Azerbaijani: “آوا، توکوشیما”
- South Azerbaijani: “آوا”
- Spanish: “Awa”
- Swedish: “Awa, Tokushima”
- Swedish: “Awa”
- Tagalog: “Awa, Tokushima”
- Tagalog: “Awa, Tokusyima”
- Tagalog: “Awa”
- Tajik: “Ауа”
- Tamil: “அவா”
- Tatar: “Ава (шәһәр, Япония)”
- Tatar: “Ава”
- Telugu: “ఆవా”
- Thai: “อาวะ”
- Turkish: “Awa”
- Ukrainian: “Ава, Токусіма”
- Ukrainian: “Ава, Токушіма”
- Ukrainian: “Ава”
- Urdu: “عوا”
- Vietnamese: “Awa, Tokushima”
- Vietnamese: “Awa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Awa, Tokushima”
- Waray (Philippines): “Awa”
- Yue Chinese: “阿波”
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