Himeji

Himeji is a city near the western edge of the region of , which has a World Heritage castle.
  • City with about 528,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (30 feet)
  • Description: city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as
    “Hime”
    “Himedi”
    “Himezi”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Himeji Castle and Sanyo Himeji.
is a hilltop Japanese castle complex…
Railway station
Station is a passenger railway station…
Railway station
Station is a passenger railway…
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Latitude
34.8154° or 34° 48′ 55″ north
Longitude
134.6855° or 134° 41′ 8″ east
UN/LOCODE
JP HIM
Open location code
8Q6PRM8P+45
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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Satellite Map

Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Himeji” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هيميجي، هيوغو”
  • Arabic: “هيميجي”
  • Armenian: “Հիմեձի”
  • Asturian: “Himeji”
  • Azerbaijani: “Himeci”
  • Basque: “Himeji”
  • Belarusian: “Хімедзі”
  • Bengali: “হিমেজি”
  • Bulgarian: “Химеджи”
  • Catalan: “Himeji”
  • Cebuano: “Himeji”
  • Chechen: “Химедзи (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Химедзи”
  • Chinese: “姫路市”
  • Chinese: “姬路”
  • Chinese: “姬路市”
  • Czech: “Himedži”
  • Danish: “Himeji”
  • Dutch: “Himeji”
  • Esperanto: “Himeĝi”
  • Esperanto: “Himeĵi”
  • Estonian: “Himeji”
  • Faroese: “Himeji”
  • Finnish: “Himeji”
  • French: “Himeji-shi”
  • French: “Himeji”
  • Galician: “Himeji”
  • German: “Himedschi”
  • German: “Himeji”
  • Greek: “Χιμέτζι”
  • Gujarati: “હિમેજી”
  • Hebrew: “הימג’י”
  • Hindi: “हिमेजी”
  • Hungarian: “Himedzsi”
  • Indonesian: “Himeji, Hyōgo”
  • Indonesian: “Himeji”
  • Irish: “Himeji”
  • Italian: “Himeji”
  • Japanese: “Himeji-shi”
  • Japanese: “ひめじし”
  • Japanese: “姫路”
  • Japanese: “姫路市”
  • Javanese: “Himeji”
  • Kalaallisut: “Himeji”
  • Kannada: “ಹಿಮೆಜಿ”
  • Korean: “히메지 시”
  • Latvian: “Himeji”
  • Literary Chinese: “姬路市”
  • Lithuanian: “Himedžis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Himeji”
  • Macedonian: “Химеџи”
  • Malagasy: “Himeji”
  • Malay: “Himeji”
  • Marathi: “हिमजी”
  • Mazanderani: “هیمه‌جی، هیوگو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Himezi-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Химэдзи”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Himeji”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Himeji”
  • Norwegian: “Himeji”
  • Ossetian: “Химедзи”
  • Persian: “هیمه‌جی، هیوگو”
  • Persian: “هیمه‌جی”
  • Polish: “Himeji”
  • Portuguese: “Himeji”
  • Romanian: “Himeji”
  • Russian: “Химедзи”
  • Russian: “Химэдзи”
  • Scots: “Himeji, Hyōgo”
  • Scots: “Himeji”
  • Serbian: “Himedži”
  • Serbian: “Химеђи”
  • Serbian: “Химеџи”
  • Serbian: “姫路市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Himedži”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Himeji”
  • Silesian: “Himeji”
  • Sinhala: “හිමෙජි”
  • Slovenian: “Himedži”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هیمه‌جی، هیوقو”
  • Spanish: “Himeji Hyōgo”
  • Spanish: “Himeji”
  • Swedish: “Himeji”
  • Tagalog: “Himedyi”
  • Tagalog: “Himeji”
  • Tajik: “Himeçi”
  • Tajik: “Ҳимеҷи”
  • Tamil: “இமேஜி”
  • Tatar: “Химедзи”
  • Tatar: “Химеҗи”
  • Telugu: “హిమేజి”
  • Thai: “ฮิเมจิ”
  • Thai: “ฮิเมะจิ”
  • Turkish: “Himeji”
  • Ukrainian: “Хімеджі”
  • Ukrainian: “Хімедзі”
  • Urdu: “ہیمیجی، ہیوگو”
  • Uzbek: “Ximedzi”
  • Venetian: “Himeji”
  • Vietnamese: “Himeji, Hyōgo”
  • Vietnamese: “Himeji”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Himeji”
  • Welsh: “Himeji”
  • Yue Chinese: “姫路”

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