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Dazaifu

Dazaifu is a city located in , . As of 31 March 2024, the city had an estimated population of 71,505 in 33204 households, and a population density of 260 persons per km². The total area of the city is 29.60 km2.
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  • Type: City with 73,200 residents
  • Description: city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Dazaifu-shiyakusho”, “Dazaifu, Fukuoka”, and “Dazaihu”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kyushu National Museum and Dazaifu Tenmangū.

Museum
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The opened on October 16, 2005, in Dazaifu near Fukuoka—the first new national museum in Japan in over 100 years, and the first to elevate the focus on history over art.

Shinto shrine
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Dazaifu Tenman-gū is a Shinto shrine in Dazaifu, , . It is built over the grave of Sugawara no Michizane and is one of the main shrines dedicated to Tenjin, the deified form of Michizane.

Railway station
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is a passenger railway station located in the city of Dazaifu, Fukuoka , . It is operated by the private transportation company Nishi-Nippon Railroad, and has station number D02.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chikushino and Umi.

Photo: Muyo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in , . As of 29 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 106,513 in 48029 households, and a population density of 1200 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 87.73 km2.

Town
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is a town located in Kasuya District, , . As of 31 March 2024, the town had an estimated population of 36,907 in 16691 households, and a population density of 1200 persons per km². The total area of the town is 30.21 km2…

Dazaifu

Latitude
33.5129° or 33° 30′ 47″ north
Longitude
130.5242° or 130° 31′ 27″ east
Population
73,200
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
Open location code
8Q5GGG7F+5M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1825968337
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
7422816
Wiki­data ID
Q728218
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Dazaifu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دازايفو، فوكوكا”
  • Arabic: “دازايفو”
  • Asturian: “Dazaifu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dazayfu”
  • Bengali: “ডাজাইফু”
  • Catalan: “Dazaifu”
  • Cebuano: “Dazaifu-shi”
  • Cebuano: “Dazaifu”
  • Chechen: “Дадзайфу”
  • Chinese: “Dazaifu-chhī”
  • Chinese: “太宰府”
  • Chinese: “太宰府市”
  • Czech: “Dazaifu”
  • Danish: “Dazaifu”
  • Dutch: “Dazaifu”
  • Finnish: “Dazaifu”
  • French: “Dazaifu”
  • French: “Dazaihu”
  • Galician: “Dazaifu”
  • German: “Dazaifu”
  • Greek: “Νταζαΐφου”
  • Gujarati: “ડઝેફુ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Dazaifu, Fukuoka”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Dazaifu”
  • Hebrew: “דזאיפו”
  • Hindi: “डज़ाइफु”
  • Hungarian: “Dazaifu”
  • Indonesian: “Dazaifu”
  • Irish: “Dazaifu”
  • Italian: “Dazaifu”
  • Japanese: “Dazaifu-shi”
  • Japanese: “だざいふし”
  • Japanese: “だざいふしやくしょ”
  • Japanese: “太宰府”
  • Japanese: “太宰府市”
  • Japanese: “太宰府村”
  • Japanese: “太宰府町”
  • Kannada: “ದಜಾಫು”
  • Korean: “다자이후 시”
  • Korean: “다자이후시”
  • Latvian: “Dazaifu”
  • Literary Chinese: “太宰府市”
  • Lithuanian: “Dazaifu”
  • Malagasy: “Dazaifu”
  • Malay: “Dazaifu”
  • Marathi: “डेझाफू”
  • Mazanderani: “دازایفو، فوکوئوکا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dazaifu-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dazaifu”
  • Persian: “دازایفو، فوکوئوکا”
  • Polish: “Dazaifu”
  • Portuguese: “Dazaifu”
  • Romanian: “Dazaifu”
  • Russian: “Дадзайфу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dazaifu, Fukuoka”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dazaifu”
  • Sinhala: “ඩසයිෆු”
  • Slovak: “Dazaifu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دازایفو، فوکوئوکا”
  • Spanish: “Dazaifu Fukuoka”
  • Spanish: “Dazaifu”
  • Swedish: “Dazaifu”
  • Tagalog: “Dasaipu”
  • Tagalog: “Dazaifu”
  • Tamil: “டசஐபியூ”
  • Tatar: “Дадзайфу”
  • Telugu: “డజాయిఫు”
  • Thai: “ดาไซฟุ”
  • Turkish: “Dazaifu”
  • Ukrainian: “Дадзайфу”
  • Urdu: “دازایفو”
  • Vietnamese: “Dazaifu, Fukuoka”
  • Vietnamese: “Dazaifu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dazaifu, Fukuoka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dazaifu”
  • Yue Chinese: “太宰府”

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