Hirosaki

Hirosaki is a city in Aomori prefecture, in the northern region of the main Japanese island .
  • Type: City with 168,000 residents
  • Description: city in Tōhoku, Aomori, Japan
  • Also known as: “Hirosaki Shi”, “Khirosaki”, “هیروزاکی، ائوموری”, and “히로사키”
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Hirosaki Castle and Hirosaki Station.

Castle
is a hirayama-style Japanese castle constructed in 1611.

Railway station
is a railway station in the city…

Museum
opened in Hirosaki, , Japan in 1977.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fujisaki.

Town
is a town in , Japan.

Hirosaki

Latitude
40.6031° or 40° 36′ 11″ north
Longitude
140.464° or 140° 27′ 51″ east
Population
168,000
Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)
Open location code
8RG2JF37+6J
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hirosaki” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هيروساكي، آوموري”
  • Arabic: “هيروساكي”
  • Armenian: “Հիրոսակի”
  • Asturian: “Hirosaki”
  • Basque: “Hirosaki”
  • Bengali: “হিরোসাকি”
  • Catalan: “Hirosaki”
  • Cebuano: “Hirosaki”
  • Chechen: “Хиросаки”
  • Chinese: “弘前市”
  • Czech: “Hirosaki”
  • Danish: “Hirosaki”
  • Dutch: “Hirosaki”
  • Esperanto: “Hirosaki”
  • Estonian: “Hirosaki”
  • Finnish: “Hirosaki”
  • French: “Hirosaki”
  • Galician: “Hirosaki”
  • Georgian: “ჰიროსაკი”
  • German: “Hirosaki”
  • Greek: “Χιροσάκι”
  • Gujarati: “હિરોસાકી”
  • Hebrew: “הירוסאקי”
  • Hindi: “हिरोसकी”
  • Hungarian: “Hiroszaki”
  • Indonesian: “Hirosaki, Aomori”
  • Indonesian: “Hirosaki”
  • Irish: “Hirosaki”
  • Italian: “Hirosaki”
  • Japanese: “Hirosaki-shi”
  • Japanese: “ひろさきし”
  • Japanese: “弘前”
  • Japanese: “弘前市”
  • Kannada: “ಹಿರೋಸಾಕಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Xïrosakï qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Хиросаки қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Хиросаки”
  • Kazakh: “حىيروساكىي قالاسى”
  • Korean: “히로사키 시”
  • Korean: “히로사키시”
  • Latvian: “Hirosaki”
  • Literary Chinese: “弘前市”
  • Lithuanian: “Hirosakis”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Hirosaki”
  • Malagasy: “Hirosaki”
  • Malay: “Hirosaki”
  • Marathi: “हिरोसाकी”
  • Mazanderani: “هیروزاکی، آئوموری”
  • Mazanderani: “هیروزاکی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hirosaki-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hirosaki”
  • Norwegian: “Hirosaki”
  • Persian: “هیروزاکی، آئوموری”
  • Persian: “هیروزاکی”
  • Persian: “هیروساکی”
  • Polish: “Hirosaki”
  • Portuguese: “Hirosaki”
  • Romanian: “Hirosaki”
  • Russian: “Хиросаки”
  • Serbian: “Hirosaki”
  • Serbian: “Хиросаки”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hirosaki”
  • Silesian: “Hirosaki”
  • Sinhala: “හිරෝසාකි”
  • Slovak: “Hirosaki”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هیروساکی، آئوموری”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هیروساکی”
  • Spanish: “Hirosaki”
  • Swedish: “Hirosaki”
  • Tagalog: “Hirosaki”
  • Tajik: “Hirosaki”
  • Tajik: “Ҳиросаки”
  • Tamil: “ஹிரோஸாகி”
  • Tatar: “Хиросаки”
  • Telugu: “హిరోసాకి”
  • Thai: “ฮิโรซากิ”
  • Thai: “ฮิโระซะกิ”
  • Tumbuka: “Hirosaki”
  • Turkish: “Hirosaki”
  • Ukrainian: “Хіросакі”
  • Urdu: “ہیروساکی، اوموری”
  • Venetian: “Hirosaki”
  • Vietnamese: “Hirosaki, Aomori”
  • Vietnamese: “Hirosaki”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hirosaki, Aomori”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hirosaki”
  • Yue Chinese: “弘前”

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