Karuizawa

Karuizawa is a resort town located in , Japan. As of 1 October 2025, the town had an estimated population of 21,834 in 11,285 households, and a population density of 139 persons per km2.
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  • Type: Town with 19,000 residents
  • Description: town in Kitasaku district, Nagano prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Karuisawa-machi” and “Karuizawa, Nagano”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Naka-Karuizawa and Uchimura Kanzo Memorial Stone Church.

Railway station
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Station is a railway station on the Shinano Railway Line in Nagakura, in the town of Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan, operated by the third-sector railway operating company Shinano Railway.

Church
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Museum
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Karuizawa

Latitude
36.3483° or 36° 20′ 54″ north
Longitude
138.597° or 138° 35′ 49″ east
Population
19,000
Elevation
973 metres (3,192 feet)
Open location code
8Q8W8HXW+8Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5901282594
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1860024
Wiki­data ID
Q1012064
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Karuizawa” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كارويزاوا”
  • Armenian: “Կարուիձավա”
  • Asturian: “Karuizawa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karuizava”
  • Bengali: “কারুইজাওয়া”
  • Burmese: “ခါရုအိဇာဝါမြို့၊ နဂါနို”
  • Catalan: “Karuizawa”
  • Cebuano: “Karuizawa Machi”
  • Chinese: “轻井泽町”
  • Chinese: “輕井澤町”
  • Czech: “Karuizawa”
  • Dutch: “Karuizawa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كارويزاوا”
  • Finnish: “Karuizawa”
  • French: “Karuizawa”
  • Georgian: “კარუიძავა”
  • German: “Karuizawa”
  • Hebrew: “קרויזאווה”
  • Hungarian: “Karuizava”
  • Irish: “Karuizawa”
  • Italian: “Karuizawa”
  • Japanese: “Karuizawa-machi”
  • Japanese: “かるいざわまち”
  • Japanese: “カルイザワマチ”
  • Japanese: “東長倉村”
  • Japanese: “軽井沢町”
  • Korean: “가루이자와”
  • Korean: “가루이자와마치”
  • Korean: “가루이자와정”
  • Literary Chinese: “輕井澤町”
  • Malay: “Karuizawa, Nagano”
  • Malay: “Karuizawa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karuizawa”
  • Norwegian: “Karuizawa”
  • Persian: “کاروایزاوا، ناگانو”
  • Persian: “کاروایزاوا”
  • Polish: “Karuizawa”
  • Portuguese: “Karuizawa”
  • Russian: “Каруидзава”
  • Russian: “Каруизава”
  • Slovenian: “Kanuizava”
  • Slovenian: “Kanuizawa”
  • Spanish: “Karuizawa”
  • Swedish: “Karuizawa”
  • Tagalog: “Karuisawa”
  • Tagalog: “Karuizawa, Nagano”
  • Tagalog: “Karuizawa”
  • Thai: “คารูอิซาวะ”
  • Turkish: “Karuizawa”
  • Ukrainian: “Каруідзава”
  • Ukrainian: “Каруїдзава”

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