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Ichikawa

Ichikawa is a city in western , . As of 31 January 2024, the city had an estimated population of 492,749 in 256,229 households and a population density of 8577 persons per km2.
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  • Type: City with 497,000 residents
  • Description: city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Ichikawa Shi”, “Ichikawa, Chiba”, and “Itikawa”
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Sugano Station and Chiba Museum of Science and Industry.

Railway station
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is a railway station on the Keisei Main Line in the city of Ichikawa, Chiba Japan, operated by the private railway operator Keisei Electric Railway.

Museum
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is a science museum located in Ichikawa, , . The museum introduces mainly topics related to technology, for modern industry.

Buddhist temple
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Hokekyō-ji is a temple of the Nichiren-shū founded during the Kamakura period in Ichikawa, , . One of Nichiren's most important writings the Risshō Ankoku Ron, regarded as one of the National Treasures of Japan, is kept at the temple.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Funabashi and East Tokyo.

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is a city located in , . As of 1 December 2020, the city had an estimated population of 644,668 in 309,238 households and a population density of 7,500 inhabitants per square kilometre.

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Eastern Tokyo covers the wards of Adachi, Katsushika, Edogawa, Kōtō and Arakawa. Neighboring is covered in its own article, as is the flashy bayside shopping and entertainment district of .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Ichikawa

Latitude
35.7216° or 35° 43′ 18″ north
Longitude
139.9309° or 139° 55′ 51″ east
Population
497,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
8Q7XPWCJ+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2098146352
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1861964
Wiki­data ID
Q209785
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ichikawa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إيشيكاوا”
  • Arabic: “ايشيكاوا تشيبا”
  • Arabic: “ايشيكاوا”
  • Armenian: “Իտիկավա”
  • Asturian: “Ichikawa”
  • Basque: “Ichikawa”
  • Belarusian: “Ітыкава”
  • Bengali: “ইচিকাওয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Ичикава”
  • Bulgarian: “Ичикауа”
  • Catalan: “Ichikawa”
  • Chechen: “Итикава (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Итикава”
  • Chinese: “Itikawa-chhī”
  • Chinese: “市川”
  • Chinese: “市川市”
  • Czech: “Ičikawa (Čiba)”
  • Czech: “Ičikawa-ši”
  • Czech: “Ičikawa”
  • Czech: “市川”
  • Danish: “Ichikawa”
  • Dutch: “Ichikawa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايشيكاوا تشيبا”
  • Esperanto: “Iĉikaŭa”
  • Estonian: “Ichikawa”
  • Finnish: “Ichikawa”
  • French: “Ichikawa”
  • Galician: “Ichikawa”
  • Georgian: “იტიკავა”
  • German: “Ichikawa”
  • German: “市川”
  • Greek: “Ιτσικάβα”
  • Gujarati: “ઇચિકાવા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ichikawa-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “איצ’יקאווה”
  • Hindi: “इचिकावा”
  • Hungarian: “Ichikawa”
  • Hungarian: “Icsikava”
  • Indonesian: “Ichikawa, Chiba”
  • Indonesian: “Ichikawa”
  • Irish: “Ichikawa”
  • Italian: “Ichikawa”
  • Japanese: “Ichikawa-shi”
  • Japanese: “いちかわし”
  • Japanese: “イチカワシ”
  • Japanese: “川”
  • Japanese: “市川市”
  • Kannada: “ಇಚಿಕಾವಾ”
  • Korean: “이치카와시”
  • Latvian: “Ičikava”
  • Literary Chinese: “市川市”
  • Lithuanian: “Ičikava”
  • Lithuanian: “市川”
  • Malay: “Ichikawa”
  • Marathi: “इचिकावा”
  • Mazanderani: “ایشی‌کاوا، چیبا”
  • Mazanderani: “ایشی‌کاوا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Itikawa-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ichikawa”
  • Norwegian: “Ichikawa”
  • Persian: “ایچیکاوا، چیبا”
  • Persian: “ایشی کاوا، چیبا”
  • Persian: “ایشی‌کاوا”
  • Polish: “Ichikawa”
  • Polish: “市川”
  • Portuguese: “Ichikawa”
  • Romanian: “Ichikawa, Chiba”
  • Romanian: “Ichikawa”
  • Russian: “Итикава”
  • Russian: “市川”
  • Samogitian: “Ičikava”
  • Samogitian: “市川”
  • Serbian: “Ičikava”
  • Serbian: “Ичикава”
  • Serbian: “市川市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ichikawa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ičikava”
  • Silesian: “Ichikawa”
  • Sinhala: “ඉචිකාවා”
  • Slovenian: “Ičikava”
  • Spanish: “Ichikawa Chiba”
  • Spanish: “Ichikawa”
  • Swahili: “Ichikawa, Chiba”
  • Swahili: “Ichikawa”
  • Swahili: “Itikawa”
  • Swedish: “Ichikawa”
  • Tagalog: “Ichikawa, Chiba”
  • Tagalog: “Ichikawa”
  • Tagalog: “Itsikawa”
  • Tajik: “Icikava”
  • Tajik: “Ичикава”
  • Tamil: “இச்சிகாவா”
  • Tatar: “Итикава”
  • Tatar: “Ичикава”
  • Telugu: “ఇచికావా”
  • Thai: “อิจิกาวะ”
  • Turkish: “Ichikawa”
  • Ukrainian: “Ітікава”
  • Ukrainian: “Ічікава”
  • Urdu: “اچیکاوا، چیبا”
  • Urdu: “اچیکاوا”
  • Uzbek: “Ichikawa”
  • Venetian: “Ichikawa”
  • Vietnamese: “Ichikawa, Chiba”
  • Vietnamese: “Ichikawa”
  • Vietnamese: “Thị Xuyên thị”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ichikawa, Chiba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ichikawa”
  • Yue Chinese: “市川”

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