Kagoshima
Kagoshima, is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 July 2024, the city had an estimated population of 583,966 in 285,992 households, and a population density of 1100 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 547.61 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 593,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Kagoshima prefecture
- Also known as: “Kagoshimashi”
- Neighbors: Ibusuki and Satsumasendai
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.1 jp.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kagoshima-Chūō Station and Kagoshima Castle.
Kagoshima-Chūō Station
Railway station
Photo: Tokyo-Good, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kagoshima-Chūō Station is a major railway station in the city of Kagoshima, Japan. It is operated by the Kyushu Railway Company. It is also the southernmost high-speed Shinkansen railway terminal in Japan.
Kagoshima Castle
Ruins
Photo: Sakoppi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kagoshima Castle was an Edo period flatland-style Japanese castle located in the city of Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2023.
Museum of the Meiji Restoration
Museum
Photo: STA3816, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of the Meiji Restoration is a history museum in Kagoshima, Japan. Located by the Kōtsuki River, it is a gallery where visitors can learn about the Meiji Restoration.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shimo-arata and Tagami.
Kagoshima
- Categories: core city of Japan, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, jōkamachi, city of Japan, city for international conferences and tourism, and locality
- Location: Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.5968° or 31° 35′ 49″ northLongitude
130.5572° or 130° 33′ 26″ eastPopulation
593,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
8Q3GHHW4+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 640003455OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1860827Wikidata ID
Q15674
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kagoshima” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاغوشيما، كاغوشيما”
- Arabic: “كاغوشيما”
- Armenian: “Կագոշիմա”
- Armenian: “Կոգոշիմա”
- Asturian: “Kagoshima”
- Azerbaijani: “Kaqoşima”
- Basque: “Kagoshima”
- Bavarian: “Kagoshima”
- Belarusian: “Кагосіма”
- Bengali: “কাগোশিমা”
- Bulgarian: “Кагошима”
- Catalan: “Kagoshima”
- Cebuano: “Kagoshima Shi”
- Cebuano: “Kagoshima-shi (kapital sa prepektura sa Hapon)”
- Chechen: “Кагосима (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Кагосима”
- Chinese: “Kagosima-chhī”
- Chinese: “鹿儿岛市”
- Chinese: “鹿兒島”
- Chinese: “鹿兒島市”
- Croatian: “Kagoshima”
- Croatian: “Kagošima”
- Czech: “Kagošima”
- Danish: “Kagoshima”
- Dutch: “Kagoshima”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاجوشيما”
- Esperanto: “Kagoŝimo”
- Estonian: “Kagoshima”
- Faroese: “Kagoshima”
- Finnish: “Kagoshima”
- French: “Kagoshima”
- Galician: “Kagoshima”
- Georgian: “კაგოსიმა (ქალაქი)”
- Georgian: “კაგოსიმა”
- German: “Kagoschima”
- German: “Kagoshima”
- Greek: “Καγκοσίμα”
- Gujarati: “કાગોશિમા”
- Hawaiian: “Kagoshima”
- Hebrew: “קגושימה”
- Hindi: “कागोशिमा”
- Hungarian: “Kagosima”
- Icelandic: “Kagoshima”
- Ido: “Kagoshima”
- Indonesian: “Kagoshima, Kagoshima”
- Indonesian: “Kagoshima”
- Irish: “Kagoshima”
- Italian: “Kagoshima”
- Japanese: “Kagoshima-shi”
- Japanese: “かごしま”
- Japanese: “カゴシマ”
- Japanese: “かごしまし”
- Japanese: “カゴシマシ”
- Japanese: “鹿児島”
- Japanese: “鹿児島市”
- Kannada: “ಕಗೊಶಿಮಾ”
- Kirghiz: “Кагосима”
- Kirghiz: “Кагошима”
- Korean: “가고시마 시”
- Korean: “가고시마시”
- Latvian: “Kagosima”
- Latvian: “Kagošima”
- Literary Chinese: “鹿兒島市”
- Lithuanian: “Kagošima”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Kagoshima”
- Malagasy: “Kagoshima”
- Malay: “Kagoshima”
- Marathi: “कागोशिमा”
- Mazanderani: “کاگوشیما”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kagosima-chhī”
- Nauru: “Kagoshima”
- Northern Frisian: “Kagoshima”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kagoshima”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kagoshima”
- Norwegian: “Kagoshima”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kagoshima”
- Ossetian: “Кагосимæ”
- Persian: “کاگوشیما”
- Piemontese: “Kagoshima”
- Polish: “Kagoshima”
- Pontic: “Καγκοσίμα”
- Portuguese: “Kagoshima”
- Romanian: “Kagoshima”
- Russian: “Кагосима”
- Sardinian: “Kagoshima”
- Scots: “Kagoshima”
- Serbian: “Кагошима”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kagoshima”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kagosima”
- Sindhi: “ڪاگوشيما”
- Sinhala: “කගොශිමා”
- Slovenian: “Kagoshima”
- Slovenian: “Kagošima”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاقوشیما”
- Spanish: “Kagoshima”
- Swahili: “Kagoshima, Kagoshima”
- Swahili: “Kagoshima”
- Swedish: “Kagoshima”
- Tagalog: “Kagoshima”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Kagoshima”
- Tajik: “Кагошима”
- Tamil: “ககோஷிமா”
- Tatar: “Кагосима”
- Tatar: “Кагочима”
- Telugu: “కాగోషిమా”
- Thai: “คาโงชิมะ”
- Tumbuka: “Kagoshima”
- Turkish: “Kagoshima”
- Turkish: “Kagoşima”
- Ukrainian: “Кагосіма”
- Ukrainian: “Кагошіма”
- Ukrainian: “Каґошіма”
- Urdu: “کاگوشیما”
- Uzbek: “Kagosima”
- Venetian: “Kagoshima”
- Vietnamese: “Kagoshima”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kagoshima”
- Welsh: “Kagoshima”
- Wu Chinese: “鹿儿岛市”
- Yue Chinese: “鹿兒島市”
- “Kagoshima”
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