Kawagoe

Kawagoe is an old trading outpost of the ancient capital Edo. Located in , the city is now a small suburban city of around 33,000 people, but the preserved warehouse district draws around 4 million visitors to the city each year, and has earned the city the nickname of "Little Edo".
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  • Type: City with 351,000 residents
  • Description: city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Kawagoe, Saitama”
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kawagoe Station and Kawagoe Castle.

Railway station
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is an interchange passenger railway station in located in the city of Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tōbu Railway and East Japan Railway Company.

Castle
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is a flatland Japanese castle in the city of Kawagoe, in Japan's . It is the closest castle to to be accessible to visitors, as Edo castle is now the Imperial palace, and largely inaccessible.

Railway station
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is a passenger railway station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line located in the city of Kawagoe, Saitama, , operated by the private railway operator Seibu Railway.

Kawagoe

Latitude
35.9251° or 35° 55′ 30″ north
Longitude
139.4857° or 139° 29′ 9″ east
Population
351,000
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP KWE
Open location code
8Q7XWFGP+27
Open­Street­Map ID
node 537121807
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1859740
Wiki­data ID
Q319740
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kawagoe” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاواجوه، سايتاما”
  • Arabic: “كاواغويه”
  • Armenian: “Կավագոե”
  • Asturian: “Kawagoe”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kavaqoe”
  • Basque: “Kawagoe”
  • Belarusian: “Кавагоэ”
  • Bengali: “কাওয়াগো”
  • Bulgarian: “Кавагое”
  • Catalan: “Kawagoe”
  • Cebuano: “Kawagoe”
  • Chechen: “Кавагоэ”
  • Chinese: “Kawagoe-chhī”
  • Chinese: “川越”
  • Chinese: “川越市”
  • Czech: “Kawagoe”
  • Danish: “Kawagoe”
  • Dutch: “Kawagoe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاواجويه”
  • Esperanto: “Kaŭagoe”
  • Finnish: “Kawagoe”
  • French: “Kawagoe”
  • Galician: “Kawagoe”
  • Georgian: “კავაგოე”
  • German: “Kawagoe”
  • German: “Koedo”
  • Greek: “Καβατζόε”
  • Gujarati: “કાવાગોએ”
  • Hindi: “कावागोई”
  • Hungarian: “Kavagoe”
  • Indonesian: “Kawagoe, Saitama”
  • Indonesian: “Kawagoe”
  • Irish: “Kawagoe”
  • Italian: “Kawagoe”
  • Japanese: “Kawagoe-shi”
  • Japanese: “かわごえし”
  • Japanese: “川越”
  • Japanese: “川越市”
  • Kannada: “ಕವಾಗೊ”
  • Korean: “가와고에 시”
  • Korean: “가와고에시”
  • Latvian: “Kavagoje”
  • Literary Chinese: “川越市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kavagojė”
  • Malay: “Kawagoe, Saitama”
  • Malay: “Kawagoe”
  • Marathi: “कवागोए”
  • Marathi: “कावागोए”
  • Mazanderani: “کاواگوئه، سایتاما”
  • Mazanderani: “کاواگوئه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kawagoe-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kawagoe”
  • Mongolian: “Кавагоэ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kawagoe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kawagoe”
  • Norwegian: “Kawagoe”
  • Persian: “کاواگوئه، سایتاما”
  • Persian: “کاواگوئه”
  • Polish: “Kawagoe”
  • Portuguese: “Kawagoe”
  • Romanian: “Kawagoe”
  • Russian: “Кавагоэ”
  • Scots: “Kawagoe Ceety”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kawagoe”
  • Serbian: “Kavagoe”
  • Serbian: “Кавагое”
  • Serbian: “川越市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kavagoe”
  • Sinhala: “කවගොයි”
  • Slovenian: “Kavagoja”
  • Spanish: “Kawagoe Saitama”
  • Spanish: “Kawagoe”
  • Spanish: “Koedo”
  • Swedish: “Kawagoe”
  • Tagalog: “Kawagoe, Saitama”
  • Tagalog: “Kawagoe”
  • Tajik: “Kavagoe”
  • Tajik: “Кавагое”
  • Tamil: “காவாகோஈ”
  • Tatar: “Кавагое”
  • Tatar: “Кавагоэ”
  • Telugu: “కావాగోయి”
  • Thai: “คะวะโงะเอะ”
  • Thai: “คาวาโงเอะ”
  • Turkish: “Kawagoe”
  • Ukrainian: “Каваґое”
  • Urdu: “کاواگوے، سائیتاما”
  • Urdu: “کاواگوے”
  • Venetian: “Kawagoe”
  • Vietnamese: “Kawagoe, Saitama”
  • Vietnamese: “Kawagoe”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Kawagoe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kawagoe, Saitama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kawagoe”
  • Yue Chinese: “川越”

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