Kumamoto

Kumamoto is the capital of Kumamoto prefecture on the island of , . It is notable for the impressive Kumamoto Castle.
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  • Type: City with 739,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Kumamoto (kapital sa prepektura sa Hapon)”, “Thành phố Kumamoto”, “Urbo Kumamoto”, “קומאמוטו”, “구마모도 시”, “구마모도시”, “쿠마모토 시”, and “쿠마모토시”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kumamoto Castle and Kumamoto.

Park
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is a hilltop Japanese castle located in , Kumamoto, in . It was a large and well-fortified castle. The castle keep is a concrete reconstruction built in 1960, but a number of ancillary wooden buildings remain of the original castle.

Railway station
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Station is a junction passenger railway station located in the ward of the city of , , Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu.

Museum
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opened in the precincts of , Kumamoto, in 1976. It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chūō-ku and Higashi-ku.

Suburb
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is one of the five wards of Kumamoto City, . The ward is located in the center of the city. As of 2020, it has a population of 187,502 people and an area of 25.33 km2.

Suburb
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is one of the five wards of Kumamoto City, . Meaning literally "east ward," it is bordered by the , , and also by the towns of , and .

Suburb
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is one of the five wards of Kumamoto City, . Meaning literally "west ward," it is bordered by the , , and also by the city of and the town of .

Kumamoto

Latitude
32.8034° or 32° 48′ 12″ north
Longitude
130.7083° or 130° 42′ 30″ east
Population
739,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
KMJ
United Nations Location Code
JP KMJ
Open location code
8Q4GRP35+98
Open­Street­Map ID
node 642042925
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1858421
Wiki­data ID
Q199889
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kumamoto” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوماموتو”
  • Aragonese: “Kumamoto”
  • Armenian: “Կումամոտո”
  • Asturian: “Kumamoto”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kumamoto”
  • Balinese: “Kumamoto”
  • Basque: “Kumamoto”
  • Belarusian: “Кумамота”
  • Bengali: “কুমামোতো”
  • Bulgarian: “Кумамото”
  • Catalan: “Kumamoto”
  • Cebuano: “Kumamoto-shi (distrito sa Hapon)”
  • Cebuano: “Kumamoto-shi”
  • Chechen: “Кумамото (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Кумамото”
  • Chinese: “熊本”
  • Chinese: “熊本市”
  • Croatian: “Kumamoto”
  • Czech: “Kumamoto”
  • Danish: “Kumamoto”
  • Dutch: “Kumamoto”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوماموتو”
  • Esperanto: “Kumamoto”
  • Estonian: “Kumamoto”
  • Finnish: “Kumamoto”
  • French: “Kumamoto”
  • Galician: “Kumamoto”
  • Georgian: “კუმამოტო”
  • German: “Kumamoto”
  • Greek: “Κουμαμότο”
  • Gujarati: “કુમામોટો”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kumamoto-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Yanayin Kumamoto”
  • Hawaiian: “Kumamoto”
  • Hebrew: “קוממוטו”
  • Hindi: “कुमामोतो”
  • Hungarian: “Kumamoto”
  • Indonesian: “Kumamoto, Kumamoto”
  • Indonesian: “Kumamoto”
  • Irish: “Kumamoto”
  • Italian: “Kumamoto”
  • Japanese: “Kumamoto-shi”
  • Japanese: “くまもとし”
  • Japanese: “熊本”
  • Japanese: “熊本市”
  • Kannada: “ಕುಮಾಮೊಟೊ”
  • Kikuyu: “Kumamoto”
  • Kirghiz: “Кумамото шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Кумамото”
  • Korean: “구마모토 시”
  • Korean: “구마모토시”
  • Latvian: “Kumamoto”
  • Literary Chinese: “熊本市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kumamotas”
  • Malagasy: “Kumamoto”
  • Malay: “Kumamoto”
  • Malay: “کوماموتو”
  • Marathi: “कुममोटो”
  • Mazanderani: “کوماموتو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kumamoto-chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Күмамото”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kumamoto”
  • Norwegian: “Kumamoto”
  • Ossetian: “Кумамото”
  • Persian: “کوماموتو”
  • Piemontese: “Kumamoto”
  • Polish: “Kumamoto”
  • Portuguese: “Kumamoto”
  • Quechua: “Kumamoto”
  • Romanian: “Kumamoto”
  • Russian: “Кумамото”
  • Sardinian: “Kumamoto”
  • Scots: “Kumamoto”
  • Serbian: “Kumamoto”
  • Serbian: “Кумамото”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kumamoto”
  • Silesian: “Kumamoto”
  • Sinhala: “කුමමොටෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Kumamoto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوماموتو”
  • Spanish: “Kumamoto”
  • Swahili: “Kumamoto, Kumamoto”
  • Swahili: “Kumamoto”
  • Swedish: “Kumamoto”
  • Tagalog: “Kumamoto”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Kumamoto”
  • Tajik: “Kumamoto”
  • Tajik: “Кумамото”
  • Tamil: “குமமோடோ”
  • Tatar: “Кумамото”
  • Telugu: “కుమామోటో”
  • Thai: “คูมาโมโตะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Kumamoto”
  • Turkish: “Kumamoto”
  • Ukrainian: “Кумамото”
  • Urdu: “کوماموتو”
  • Uzbek: “Kumamoto”
  • Venetian: “Kumamoto”
  • Vietnamese: “Kumamoto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kumamoto”
  • Welsh: “Kumamoto”
  • Wu Chinese: “熊本市”
  • Yue Chinese: “熊本市”

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