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Koshu

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  • Type: City with 29,200 residents
  • Description: city in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Kōshū”, “Koshu City”, “Koshu-shi”, “Kōshū-shi”, and “Kōshū, Yamanashi”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Enzan Station and Higashi-Yamanashi.

Railway station
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is a railway station of the Chūō Main Line, East Japan Railway Company in -Kamioso, in the city of Kōshū, , .

Railway station
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Station is a railway station of the Chūō Main Line, East Japan Railway Company in Sangasho, in the city of Yamanashi, , .

Buddhist temple
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Kōgaku-ji, originally Kōgaku-an, is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. located in the city of Kōshū, Yamanashi, . It is the head temple of one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yamanashi.

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is a city located in , . As of 1 July 2019, the city had an estimated population of 34,738 in 14,679 households, and a population density of 120 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 289.80 square kilometres.

Koshu

Latitude
35.7044° or 35° 42′ 16″ north
Longitude
138.7294° or 138° 43′ 46″ east
Population
29,200
Elevation
635 metres (2,083 feet)
Open location code
8Q7WPP3H+PP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3457555438
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
11612589
Wiki­data ID
Q248723
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Koshu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوشو ياماناشي”
  • Armenian: “Կոսյու”
  • Asturian: “Kōshū”
  • Bengali: “কুসো”
  • Catalan: “Kōshū”
  • Cebuano: “Kōshū-shi”
  • Chechen: “Косю”
  • Chinese: “Kôsyû-chhī”
  • Chinese: “甲州”
  • Chinese: “甲州市”
  • Czech: “Kóšú”
  • Danish: “Koshu”
  • Dutch: “Koshu”
  • Dutch: “Kōshū”
  • Esperanto: “Koŝu”
  • Finnish: “Kōshu”
  • Finnish: “Kōshū”
  • French: “Kōshū”
  • Galician: “Kōshū”
  • German: “Koshu”
  • German: “Kōshū”
  • Greek: “Κοσού”
  • Gujarati: “કોશુ”
  • Hindi: “कोशु”
  • Hungarian: “Kósú”
  • Indonesian: “Kōshū, Yamanashi”
  • Indonesian: “Kōshū”
  • Irish: “Kōshū”
  • Italian: “Kōshū”
  • Japanese: “Kōshū-shi”
  • Japanese: “こうしゅうし”
  • Japanese: “甲州”
  • Japanese: “甲州市”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಶು”
  • Korean: “고슈시”
  • Latvian: “Košu”
  • Literary Chinese: “甲州市”
  • Lithuanian: “Košu”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Kōshū”
  • Malay: “Koshu”
  • Marathi: “कोशु”
  • Mazanderani: “کوشو، یاماناشی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kôsyû-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kōshū”
  • Norwegian: “Kōshū”
  • Persian: “کوشو، یاماناشی”
  • Polish: “Kōshū”
  • Portuguese: “Kõshu”
  • Portuguese: “Kōshū”
  • Romanian: “Kōshū”
  • Russian: “Косю”
  • Sinhala: “කොෂු”
  • Slovenian: “Koshu”
  • Slovenian: “Košu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوشو، یاماناشی”
  • Spanish: “Kōshu”
  • Spanish: “Kōshū”
  • Swedish: “Koshu”
  • Swedish: “Kōshū”
  • Tagalog: “Kōshū, Yamanashi”
  • Tagalog: “Kōshū”
  • Tamil: “கோஷு”
  • Tatar: “Косю”
  • Telugu: “కోషు”
  • Thai: “โคชู”
  • Turkish: “Kōshū”
  • Ukrainian: “Косю”
  • Ukrainian: “Кошю”
  • Urdu: “کوشو”
  • Vietnamese: “Kōshū, Yamanashi”
  • Vietnamese: “Kōshū”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kōshū, Yamanashi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kōshū”
  • Yue Chinese: “甲州”
  • “Kōshū”
  • “Kōshū-shi”
  • “こうしゅうし”
  • “甲州市”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Koshu”. Photo: funk bass, CC BY 3.0.