Japan
Chugoku
Yamaguchi

Hofu

Hofu is a city in , Japan. It is named after its former status as the provincial capital of Suō Province.
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  • Type: City with 114,000 residents
  • Description: city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Bōfu”, “Bōhu”, “Hōfu”, “Hofu City”, “Hofu-shi”, and “Hōfu-shi”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hōfu Station and Hōfu Air Field.

Railway station
Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Hōfu, , . It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company.

Aerodrome
is a military aerodrome of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force Hōfu-kita Airbase. It is located 1.1 NM southwest of Hōfu in the , .

Museum
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opened in Hōfu, , Japan, in 1966. It occupies part of the Former Mōri Clan Main Residence, dating from the Meiji and Taishō periods, of which twelve component structures have been jointly designated an Important Cultural Property and the gardens a Place of Scenic Beauty.

Hofu

Latitude
34.0517° or 34° 3′ 6″ north
Longitude
131.5629° or 131° 33′ 47″ east
Population
114,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP HOF
Open location code
8Q6H3H27+M5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 697538051
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1862302
Wiki­data ID
Q502209
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hofu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هوفا، ياماغوتشي”
  • Arabic: “هوفا”
  • Asturian: “Hōfu”
  • Bengali: “হোফু”
  • Catalan: “Hōfu”
  • Cebuano: “Hōfu”
  • Chechen: “Хофу”
  • Chinese: “Hôhu-chhī”
  • Chinese: “防府”
  • Chinese: “防府市”
  • Czech: “Hófu”
  • Danish: “Hofu”
  • Dutch: “Hofu”
  • Dutch: “Hōfu”
  • Esperanto: “Hofu”
  • Estonian: “Hofu”
  • Estonian: “Hōfu”
  • Finnish: “Hōfu”
  • French: “Hōfu”
  • Galician: “Hōfu”
  • German: “Hofu”
  • German: “Hōfu”
  • Greek: “Χόφου”
  • Gujarati: “હોફુ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hōfu-sṳ”
  • Hindi: “होफू”
  • Hungarian: “Hófu”
  • Indonesian: “Hōfu, Yamaguchi”
  • Indonesian: “Hōfu”
  • Irish: “Hōfu”
  • Italian: “Hōfu”
  • Japanese: “Houfu-Shi”
  • Japanese: “ほうふし”
  • Japanese: “防府”
  • Japanese: “防府市”
  • Kannada: “ಹೋಫು”
  • Kazakh: “Хофу”
  • Korean: “호후시”
  • Latvian: “Hofu”
  • Literary Chinese: “防府市”
  • Lithuanian: “Hofu”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Hōfu”
  • Malagasy: “Hōfu”
  • Malay: “Hofu”
  • Marathi: “होफू”
  • Mazanderani: “هوفو، یاماگوچی”
  • Mazanderani: “هوفو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hôhu-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hofu”
  • Norwegian: “Hōfu”
  • Persian: “هوفو، یاماگوچی”
  • Persian: “هوفو”
  • Polish: “Hōfu”
  • Portuguese: “Hofu”
  • Portuguese: “Hōfu”
  • Romanian: “Hofu”
  • Romanian: “Hōfu”
  • Russian: “Хофу”
  • Scots: “Hōfu”
  • Serbian: “Hofu”
  • Serbian: “Хофу”
  • Serbian: “防府市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hofu”
  • Sinhala: “හොෆු”
  • Slovenian: “Hofu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هوفو، یاماقوچی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هوفو”
  • Spanish: “Hōfu”
  • Swedish: “Hofu”
  • Swedish: “Hōfu”
  • Tagalog: “Hōfu”
  • Tagalog: “Hopu”
  • Tajik: “Hofu”
  • Tajik: “Ҳофу”
  • Tamil: “ஹோபியூ”
  • Tatar: “Хофу”
  • Tatar: “Һофу”
  • Telugu: “హోఫు”
  • Thai: “โฮฟุ”
  • Tumbuka: “Hōfu”
  • Turkish: “Hōfu”
  • Ukrainian: “Хофу”
  • Urdu: “ہوفو”
  • Venetian: “Hōfu”
  • Vietnamese: “Hōfu, Yamaguchi”
  • Vietnamese: “Hōfu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hōfu, Yamaguchi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hofu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hōfu”
  • Yue Chinese: “防府”
  • “Hōfu-shi”

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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 “Hofu”. Photo: TT mk2, CC BY-SA 3.0.