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Yamaguchi

Iwakuni

Iwakuni is a castle town shaped by two eras of military presence — the samurai who walked the mighty Kintai-kyo bridge, and the U.S. Marine Corps base in the city today.
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Photo: Urashimataro, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Iwakuni Station and Iwakuni Kintaikyo Airport.

Railway station
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is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Iwakuni, , . It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company.

Aerodrome
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Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni or MCAS Iwakuni is a joint Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces and United States Marine Corps air station located in the river delta, 1.3 NM southeast of in the city of Iwakuni, , Japan.

Railway station
Photo: そらみみ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Iwakuni, , . It is operated jointly by the West Japan Railway Company.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Waki.

Town
Photo: Taisyo, CC BY 3.0.
is a town in , , . As of 31 May 2023, the town had an estimated population of 5,927 in 2684 households and a population density of 560 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 10.58 square kilometres.

Iwakuni

Latitude
34.1665° or 34° 9′ 59″ north
Longitude
132.2191° or 132° 13′ 9″ east
Population
129,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
IWK
United Nations Location Code
JP IWK
Open location code
8Q6J5689+HJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3105577785
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1861212
Wiki­data ID
Q329797
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Iwakuni” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Iwakuni”
  • Arabic: “إواكوني”
  • Armenian: “Իվակունի”
  • Asturian: “Iwakuni”
  • Basque: “Iwakuni”
  • Belarusian: “Івакуні”
  • Bengali: “আইওয়াকোনি”
  • Bulgarian: “Ивакуни”
  • Catalan: “Iwakuni”
  • Cebuano: “Iwakuni”
  • Chechen: “Ивакуни”
  • Chinese: “Iwakuni-chhī”
  • Chinese: “岩国市”
  • Chinese: “岩國”
  • Chinese: “岩國市”
  • Czech: “Iwakuni”
  • Danish: “Iwakuni”
  • Dutch: “Iwakuni”
  • Esperanto: “Ivakuni”
  • Estonian: “Iwakuni”
  • Finnish: “Iwakuni”
  • French: “Iwakuni-shi”
  • French: “Iwakuni”
  • Galician: “Iwakuni”
  • Georgian: “ივაკუნი”
  • German: “Iwakuni”
  • Greek: “Ιγουακούνι”
  • Gujarati: “ઇવાકુની”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Iwakuni-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ngàm-koet-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “איוואקוני”
  • Hindi: “इवाकुनी”
  • Hungarian: “Ivakuni”
  • Indonesian: “Iwakuni, Yamaguchi”
  • Indonesian: “Iwakuni”
  • Irish: “Iwakuni”
  • Italian: “Iwakuni”
  • Japanese: “Iwakuni-shi”
  • Japanese: “いわくにし”
  • Japanese: “岩国”
  • Japanese: “岩国市”
  • Kannada: “ಇವಕುನಿ”
  • Korean: “이와쿠니 시”
  • Korean: “이와쿠니시”
  • Latvian: “Ivakunisa”
  • Literary Chinese: “岩國市”
  • Lithuanian: “Ivakunis”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Iwakuni”
  • Malagasy: “Iwakuni”
  • Malay: “Iwakuni”
  • Marathi: “इवाकुनी”
  • Mazanderani: “ایواکونی، یاماگوچی”
  • Mazanderani: “ایواکونی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Iwakuni-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Iwakuni”
  • Norwegian: “Iwakuni”
  • Persian: “ایواکونی، یاماگوچی”
  • Persian: “ایواکونی”
  • Polish: “Iwakuni”
  • Portuguese: “Iwakuni”
  • Romanian: “Iwakuni”
  • Russian: “Ивакуни”
  • Scots: “Iwakuni”
  • Serbian: “Ivakuni”
  • Serbian: “Ивакуни”
  • Serbian: “岩国市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ivakuni”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ivakunj”
  • Sinhala: “ඉවකුනි”
  • Slovenian: “Iwakuni”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایواکونی، یاماقوچی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایواکونی”
  • Spanish: “Iwakuni”
  • Swedish: “Iwakuni”
  • Tagalog: “Iwakuni”
  • Tajik: “Ivakuni”
  • Tajik: “Ивакуни”
  • Tamil: “இவாக்குணி”
  • Tatar: “Ивакуни”
  • Telugu: “ఇవాకుని”
  • Thai: “อิวากูนิ”
  • Tumbuka: “Iwakuni”
  • Turkish: “Iwakuni”
  • Ukrainian: “Івакуні”
  • Urdu: “یواکونی”
  • Venetian: “Iwakuni”
  • Vietnamese: “Iwakuni, Yamaguchi”
  • Vietnamese: “Iwakuni”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Iwakuni, Yamaguchi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Iwakuni”
  • Yue Chinese: “岩國”

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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 “Iwakuni”. Photo: Urashimataro, Public domain.