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Hirosaki

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

Highlights include Hirosaki Castle and Hirosaki Station.

Castle
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is a hirayama-style Japanese castle constructed in 1611. It was the seat of the Tsugaru clan, a 47,000 koku tozama daimyō clan who ruled over Hirosaki Domain, Mutsu Province, in what is now central Hirosaki, , .

Railway station
Photo: Suicasmo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station in the city of Hirosaki, , Japan, jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company and the private railway operator Kōnan Railway. It is also a freight terminal for the Japan Freight Railway Company.

Museum
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opened in Hirosaki, , Japan in 1977. It lies within Hirosaki Park, in the former grounds of . As of March 2016, the collection numbered some eighteen thousand items, including an assemblage of artefacts excavated from the Sunazawa Site that have been designated an Important Cultural Property.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fujisaki.

Town
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is a town in , . As of 31 January 2023, the town had an estimated population of 14,558 in 6162 households, and a population density of 390 persons per km². The total area of the town is 37.29 square kilometers.

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
node 734876473
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2130057
Wiki­data ID
Q194087
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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 Shi”
  • Cebuano: “Hirosaki”
  • Chechen: “Хиросаки”
  • Chinese: “Hirosaki-chhī”
  • Chinese: “弘前”
  • Chinese: “弘前市”
  • Czech: “Hirosaki”
  • Danish: “Hirosaki”
  • Dutch: “Hirosaki”
  • Esperanto: “Hirosaki”
  • Estonian: “Hirosaki”
  • Finnish: “Hirosaki”
  • French: “Hirosaki-shi”
  • French: “Hirosaki”
  • Galician: “Hirosaki”
  • Georgian: “ჰიროსაკი”
  • German: “Hirosaki”
  • Greek: “Χιροσάκι”
  • Gujarati: “હિરોસાકી”
  • Hebrew: “הירוסאקי”
  • Hindi: “हिरोसकी”
  • Hungarian: “Hiroszaki”
  • Indonesian: “Hirosaki-shi”
  • Indonesian: “Hirosaki, Aomori”
  • Indonesian: “Hirosaki”
  • Indonesian: “弘前市”
  • 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: “히로사키”
  • 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، ائوموری”
  • Persian: “هیروزاکی”
  • Persian: “هیروساکی، آئوموری”
  • Polish: “Hirosaki”
  • Portuguese: “Hirosaki”
  • Romanian: “Hirosaki”
  • Russian: “Хиросаки”
  • Serbian: “Hirosaki”
  • Serbian: “Хиросаки”
  • Serbian: “弘前市”
  • 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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