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Fukui

Fukui

Fukui is the capital city of Fukui Prefecture. In 2017, it had a population of 264,000 people. It is home to the Ichijōdani Asakura Family Historic Ruins, one of the most important cultural heritage sites in Japan.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Fukui and Fukui Castle.

Railway station
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Station is a railway station in , , Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company and the private railway operator Echizen Railway.

Castle
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is a flatland-style castle located in what is now the city of Fukui, , . During the Edo period, it was the headquarters of a branch of the Matsudaira clan, who were hereditary daimyō of Fukui domain under the Tokugawa shogunate.

Railway station
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is a railway station on the Hapi-Line Fukui Line and the Etsumi-Hoku Line in the city of Fukui, , , operated by the West Japan Railway Company and Hapi-Line Fukui.

Fukui

Latitude
36.0618° or 36° 3′ 42″ north
Longitude
136.2261° or 136° 13′ 34″ east
Population
267,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
FKJ
United Nations Location Code
JP FKJ
Open location code
8Q8R366G+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 762073174
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1863985
Wiki­data ID
Q201618
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Fukui” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فوكوي، فوكوي”
  • Arabic: “فوكوي”
  • Armenian: “Ֆուկուի”
  • Asturian: “Fukui”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fukui”
  • Basque: “Fukui”
  • Belarusian: “Фукуі”
  • Bengali: “ফুকুই”
  • Bengali: “ফুকোই”
  • Bulgarian: “Фукуи”
  • Catalan: “Fukui”
  • Cebuano: “Fukui-shi (kapital sa prepektura)”
  • Cebuano: “Fukui-shi”
  • Chechen: “Фукуи (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Фукуи”
  • Chinese: “Hukui-chhī”
  • Chinese: “福井市”
  • Czech: “Fukui”
  • Danish: “Fukui”
  • Dutch: “Fukui”
  • Esperanto: “Fukui”
  • Estonian: “Fukui”
  • Finnish: “Fukui”
  • French: “Fukui”
  • Galician: “Fukui”
  • German: “Fukui”
  • Greek: “Φουκούι”
  • Gujarati: “ફુકુઇ”
  • Hebrew: “פוקואי”
  • Hindi: “फुकुई”
  • Hungarian: “Fukui”
  • Indonesian: “Fukui, Fukui”
  • Indonesian: “Fukui”
  • Irish: “Fukui”
  • Italian: “Fukui”
  • Japanese: “Fukui-shi”
  • Japanese: “ふくいし”
  • Japanese: “北ノ庄”
  • Japanese: “福井”
  • Japanese: “福井市”
  • Kannada: “ಫುಕುಯಿ”
  • Korean: “후꾸이 시”
  • Korean: “후쿠이시”
  • Latvian: “Fukui”
  • Literary Chinese: “福井市”
  • Lithuanian: “Fukui”
  • Lithuanian: “Fukujus”
  • Malagasy: “Fukui-shi”
  • Malay: “Fukui”
  • Marathi: “फुकुई”
  • Mazanderani: “فوکوئی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Fukui-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hukui-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Фукуй (ошсь)”
  • Moksha: “Фукуй”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fukui”
  • Norwegian: “Fukui”
  • Persian: “فوکوئی”
  • Polish: “Fukui”
  • Portuguese: “Fukui”
  • Romanian: “Fukui”
  • Russian: “Фукуи”
  • Russian: “Фукуй”
  • Sardinian: “Fukui”
  • Serbian: “Fukuj”
  • Serbian: “Фукуј”
  • Serbian: “福井市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fukui”
  • Sinhala: “ෆුකුයි”
  • Slovenian: “Fukui”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فوکوئی”
  • Spanish: “Fukui”
  • Sundanese: “Fukui, Fukui”
  • Sundanese: “Fukui”
  • Swahili: “Fukui, Fukui”
  • Swahili: “Fukui”
  • Swedish: “Fukui”
  • Tagalog: “Fukui, Fukui”
  • Tagalog: “Fukui”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Fukui”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Pukui”
  • Tajik: “Fukui”
  • Tajik: “Фукуи”
  • Tamil: “பிருகுஇ”
  • Tatar: “Фукуи”
  • Telugu: “ఫుకూఇ”
  • Thai: “ฟูกูอิ”
  • Turkish: “Fukui”
  • Ukrainian: “Фукуї”
  • Ukrainian: “Фукуй”
  • Urdu: “فوکوئی، فوکوئی”
  • Venetian: “Fukui”
  • Vietnamese: “Fukui”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Fukui”
  • Welsh: “Fukui”
  • Wu Chinese: “福井市”
  • Yue Chinese: “福井市”
  • “Fukui”

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