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Shiga

Hikone

Hikone is a city of 113,000 people at the eastern edge of in prefecture, central .
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  • Type: City with 113,000 residents
  • Description: city in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Hikone, Shiga”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Hikone Castle and Sawayama Castle.

Castle
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is an Edo-period Japanese castle located in the city of Hikone, , Japan. It is considered the most significant historical site in Shiga.

Castle
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was a castle in the city of Hikone, , . This castle was an important military stronghold of Ōmi Province. The Azai clan held this castle in the Sengoku Period.

Railway station
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is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Hikone, , Japan, operated by the private railway operator Ohmi Railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maibara.

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is a city in , . As of 1 September 2021, the city had an estimated population of 38,259 in 14761 households and a population density of 150 persons per km². The total area of the city is 250.39 square kilometres.

Hikone

Latitude
35.2744° or 35° 16′ 28″ north
Longitude
136.2597° or 136° 15′ 35″ east
Population
113,000
Elevation
95 metres (312 feet)
Inception
February 11th, 1937
United Nations Location Code
JP HIE
Open location code
8Q7R77F5+QV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 541403022
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1862636
Wiki­data ID
Q386635
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hikone” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هيكونا، شيغا”
  • Arabic: “هيكونا”
  • Armenian: “Հիկոնե”
  • Asturian: “Hikone”
  • Basque: “Hikone”
  • Belarusian: “Хіконэ”
  • Bengali: “হিকোন”
  • Bulgarian: “Хиконе”
  • Catalan: “Hikone”
  • Cebuano: “Hikone-shi”
  • Cebuano: “Hikone”
  • Chechen: “Хиконе”
  • Chinese: “Hikone-chhī”
  • Chinese: “彥根”
  • Chinese: “彥根市”
  • Chinese: “彦根”
  • Chinese: “彦根市”
  • Czech: “Hikone”
  • Danish: “Hikone”
  • Dutch: “Hikone”
  • Esperanto: “Hikone”
  • Faroese: “Hikone”
  • Finnish: “Hikone”
  • French: “Hikone-shi”
  • French: “Hikone”
  • Galician: “Hikone”
  • German: “Hikone”
  • Greek: “Χικόνε”
  • Gujarati: “હિકોન”
  • Hebrew: “היקונה”
  • Hindi: “हिकोने”
  • Hungarian: “Hikone”
  • Icelandic: “Hikone”
  • Indonesian: “Hikone, Shiga”
  • Indonesian: “Hikone”
  • Irish: “Hikone”
  • Italian: “Hikone”
  • Japanese: “Hikone-shi”
  • Japanese: “ひこねし”
  • Japanese: “彦根”
  • Japanese: “彦根市”
  • Kalaallisut: “Hikone”
  • Kannada: “ಹಿಕೊನ್”
  • Korean: “히코네시”
  • Latvian: “Hikone”
  • Literary Chinese: “彥根市”
  • Lithuanian: “Hikonė”
  • Malagasy: “Hikone”
  • Malay: “Hikone, Shiga”
  • Malay: “Hikone”
  • Marathi: “हिकॉन”
  • Mazanderani: “هیکونه، شیگا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hikone-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hikone”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hikone”
  • Norwegian: “Hikone”
  • Persian: “هیکونه، شیگا”
  • Polish: “Hikone”
  • Portuguese: “Hikone”
  • Romanian: “Hikone”
  • Russian: “Хиконе”
  • Russian: “Хиконэ”
  • Serbian: “Hikone”
  • Serbian: “Хиконе”
  • Serbian: “彦根市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hikone”
  • Sinhala: “හිකොනේ”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هیکونه، شیقا”
  • Spanish: “Hikone”
  • Swedish: “Hikone”
  • Tagalog: “Hikone, Shiga”
  • Tagalog: “Hikone”
  • Tajik: “Hikone”
  • Tajik: “Ҳиконе”
  • Tamil: “ஹிகோனே”
  • Tatar: “Хиконе”
  • Telugu: “హీకోనే”
  • Thai: “ฮิโกเนะ”
  • Turkish: “Hikone”
  • Ukrainian: “Хіконе”
  • Urdu: “حیکونی”
  • Venetian: “Hikone”
  • Veps: “Hikone”
  • Vietnamese: “Hikone, Shiga”
  • Vietnamese: “Hikone”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hikone, Shiga”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hikone”
  • Yue Chinese: “彥根”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hikone”. Photo: Takashi Hososhima, CC BY-SA 2.0.