Karatsu
Karatsu is a city located in Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. Its name, formed from the Japanese word roots 唐 kara, and 津 tsu, signifies its historical importance as an ancient trading port between Japan with China and Korea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karatsu Castle and Former Karatsu Bank Head Office.
Karatsu Castle
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Karatsu Castle is a Japanese castle located in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is a hirayamajiro, a castle built on a plain rather than a hill or mountain.
Former Karatsu Bank Head Office
Museum
Photo: てるみー, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Former Karatsu Bank Head Office is a museum.
Karatsu Station
Railway station
Photo: Asturio Cantabrio, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Karatsu Station is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu. It is the main station of Karatsu City.
Karatsu
- Categories: city of Japan, big city, and locality
- Location: Karatsu Shi, Saga, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
33.4503° or 33° 27′ 1″ northLongitude
129.9679° or 129° 58′ 5″ eastPopulation
117,000Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP KAROpen location code
8Q5FFX29+45OpenStreetMap ID
node 1954714987OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Karatsu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاراتسو، ساغا”
- Arabic: “كاراتسو”
- Asturian: “Karatsu”
- Azerbaijani: “Karatsu”
- Basque: “Karatsu”
- Bengali: “কারাতসো”
- Catalan: “Karatsu”
- Cebuano: “Karatsu”
- Chechen: “Карацу”
- Chinese: “Karatu-chhī”
- Chinese: “唐津”
- Chinese: “唐津市”
- Czech: “Karacu”
- Danish: “Karatsu”
- Dutch: “Karatsu”
- Esperanto: “Karacu”
- Finnish: “Karatsu”
- French: “Karatsu”
- Galician: “Karatsu”
- German: “Karatsu”
- Greek: “Καράτσου”
- Gujarati: “કરત્સુ”
- Hebrew: “קרצו”
- Hindi: “करातसू”
- Hungarian: “Karacu”
- Indonesian: “Karatsu, Saga”
- Indonesian: “Karatsu”
- Irish: “Karatsu”
- Italian: “Karatsu”
- Japanese: “Karatsu-Shi”
- Japanese: “からつし”
- Japanese: “唐津”
- Japanese: “唐津市”
- Japanese: “唐津町”
- Kannada: “ಕರಾಟು”
- Korean: “가라쓰 시”
- Korean: “가라쓰시”
- Latvian: “Karatsu”
- Literary Chinese: “唐津市”
- Lithuanian: “Karatsu”
- Malagasy: “Karatsu”
- Malay: “Karatsu, Saga”
- Malay: “Karatsu”
- Marathi: “कारस्तु”
- Mazanderani: “کاراتسو، ساگا”
- Mazanderani: “کاراتسو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Karatu-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karatsu”
- Norwegian: “Karatsu”
- Persian: “کاراتسو، ساگا”
- Persian: “کاراتسو”
- Polish: “Karatsu”
- Portuguese: “Karatsu”
- Romanian: “Karatsu”
- Russian: “Карацу”
- Serbian: “Karacu”
- Serbian: “Карацу”
- Serbian: “唐津市”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karacu”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karatsu”
- Sinhala: “කරට්සු”
- Slovenian: “Karacu”
- Slovenian: “Karatsu”
- Spanish: “Karatsu”
- Swedish: “Karatsu”
- Tagalog: “Karatsu, Saga”
- Tagalog: “Karatsu”
- Tajik: “Karatsu”
- Tajik: “Каратсу”
- Tamil: “கரெட்சு”
- Tatar: “Каратсу”
- Tatar: “Карацу”
- Telugu: “కరట్సు”
- Thai: “คารัตสึ”
- Turkish: “Karatsu”
- Ukrainian: “Карацу”
- Urdu: “کراتسو”
- Uzbek: “Karatsu”
- Venetian: “Karatsu”
- Vietnamese: “Karatsu, Saga”
- Vietnamese: “Karatsu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Karatsu, Saga”
- Waray (Philippines): “Karatsu”
- Yue Chinese: “唐津”
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