Himeji
Himeji is a city near the western edge of the Kansai region of Japan, which has a World Heritage castle.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Himeji Castle and Sanyo Himeji.
Himeji Castle
Castle
Himeji Castle is a hilltop Japanese castle complex situated in Himeji, a city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The castle is regarded as the finest surviving example of prototypical Japanese castle architecture, comprising a network of 83 structures with advanced defensive systems from the feudal period.
Sanyo Himeji
Railway station
Tegarayamaheiwakōen
Railway station
Himeji
- Categories: core city of Japan, city of Japan, big city, city for international conferences and tourism, and locality
- Location: Hyogo, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.8154° or 34° 48′ 55″ north
Longitude
134.6855° or 134° 41′ 8″ east
Population
536,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP HIM
Open location code
8Q6PRM8P+45
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
Discover Himeji 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: “Himezi-chhī”
- Chinese: “姫路”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “הימגי”
- 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”
- Korean: “히메지시”
- 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: “هیمه جی، هیوگو”
- 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 Hyogo”
- 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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