Kinkasan

Kinkasan is a small mountainous island at the tip of the Oshika Peninsula, part of City. It's not far from , , .
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Miyagi, Japan
  • Also known as: “Kinkasan-tō”, “Kinkazan-tō”, and “Mount Kinka”
  • Historically known as: “Kinka San Island”, “Kinkuwasan Island”, and “Kinkwazan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kinkasan Lighthouse and Koganeyama Shrine (Ishinomaki).

Lighthouse
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is a lighthouse on Kinkasan, an island off the in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, . The was one of 26 lighthouses designed and built in Meiji period Japan by the British engineer Richard Henry Brunton.

Shinto shrine
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is a Shinto shrine.

Park
Photo: ToshiJapon, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kinkasan

Latitude
38.2936° or 38° 17′ 37″ north
Longitude
141.5685° or 141° 34′ 7″ east
Elevation
445 metres (1,460 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP KNK
Open location code
8RC37HV9+C9
Geo­Names ID
2112246
Wiki­data ID
Q6413909
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Satellite Map

Discover Kinkasan from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Spanish—“Kinkasan” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Кинкасан”
  • Cebuano: “Kinkasan”
  • Central Bikol: “Kinkasan”
  • Czech: “Kinkazan”
  • Dutch: “Kinkasan”
  • French: “Kinkasan”
  • German: “Kinkasan”
  • Japanese: “きんかさん”
  • Japanese: “キンカサン”
  • Japanese: “金華山”
  • Korean: “긴카산”
  • Korean: “긴카산섬”
  • Polish: “Kinkasan”
  • Spanish: “Kinkasan”

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