Japan
Hokkaido
Eastern Circuit

Kushiro

Kushiro is the fourth largest city in Hokkaido and the largest city in Eastern Hokkaido. Despite its population and size, it is still quite rural, with a sparse public transportation system.
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  • Type: City with 165,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hokkaidō, Japan
  • Also known as: “Kushira” and “Kusiro”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hokkaido Kushiro General Subprefectural Bereau and Kushiro Station.

Government building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kushiro Subprefecture is a subprefecture of , Japan. Kushiro is home to a population of red-crowned cranes, estimated in 2022 to number about 1,900.

Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station located in the city of Kushiro, Hokkaidō, . It is operated by JR Hokkaido.

Shopping center
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
is a shopping center.

Kushiro

Latitude
42.985° or 42° 59′ 6″ north
Longitude
144.382° or 144° 22′ 55″ east
Population
165,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
IATA airport code
KUH
United Nations Location Code
JP KUH
Open location code
8RJ6X9MJ+XR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 381942295
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2129376
Wiki­data ID
Q271917
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Satellite Map

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

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kushiro” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوشيرو، هوكايدو”
  • Arabic: “كوشيرو”
  • Armenian: “Կուշիրո”
  • Asturian: “Kushiro”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kuşiro”
  • Bashkir: “Кусиро”
  • Basque: “Kushiro”
  • Belarusian: “Кусіра”
  • Bengali: “কুশিরো”
  • Catalan: “Kushiro”
  • Cebuano: “Kushiro-shi”
  • Cebuano: “Kushiro”
  • Chechen: “Кусиро”
  • Chinese: “Kusiro-chhī”
  • Chinese: “釧路”
  • Chinese: “釧路市”
  • Chinese: “钏路市”
  • Czech: “Kuširo”
  • Danish: “Kushiro”
  • Dutch: “Kushiro”
  • Esperanto: “Kushiro”
  • Esperanto: “Kuŝiro”
  • Finnish: “Kushiro”
  • French: “Kushiro”
  • Galician: “Kushiro, Hokkaido”
  • Galician: “Kushiro”
  • German: “Kushiro-shi”
  • German: “Kushiro”
  • German: “釧路市”
  • Greek: “Κουσίρο”
  • Gujarati: “કુશીરો”
  • Hebrew: “קושירו”
  • Hindi: “कुशीरो”
  • Hungarian: “Kusiro”
  • Ido: “Kushiro”
  • Indonesian: “Kushiro, Hokkaido”
  • Indonesian: “Kushiro”
  • Irish: “Kushiro”
  • Italian: “Kushiro”
  • Japanese: “Kushiro-shi”
  • Japanese: “くしろし”
  • Japanese: “釧路”
  • Japanese: “釧路区”
  • Japanese: “釧路市”
  • Japanese: “釧路町”
  • Kannada: “ಕುಶಿರೊ”
  • Korean: “구시로 시”
  • Korean: “구시로시”
  • Korean: “쿠시로 시”
  • Korean: “쿠시로시”
  • Latvian: “Kušira”
  • Literary Chinese: “釧路市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuširas”
  • Malagasy: “Kushiro”
  • Malay: “Kushiro”
  • Marathi: “कुशीरो”
  • Mazanderani: “کوشیرو، هوکایدو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kusiro-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kushiro”
  • Norwegian: “Kushiro”
  • Pampanga: “Kushiro, Hokkaidō”
  • Pampanga: “Kushiro”
  • Persian: “کوشیرو، هوکایدو”
  • Polish: “Kushiro-shi”
  • Polish: “Kushiro”
  • Portuguese: “Kushiro”
  • Romanian: “Kushiro, Hokkaidō”
  • Romanian: “Kushiro”
  • Russian: “Kushiro, Hokkaido”
  • Russian: “Кусиро”
  • Russian: “Куширо”
  • Serbian: “Kuširo”
  • Serbian: “Куширо”
  • Serbian: “釧路市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kushiro”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kuširo”
  • Sinhala: “කුශිරෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Kushiro”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوشیرو، هوکایدو”
  • Spanish: “Kushiro Hokkaido”
  • Spanish: “Kushiro Hokkaidō”
  • Spanish: “Kushiro”
  • Swedish: “Kushiro”
  • Tagalog: “Kushiro, Hokkaido”
  • Tagalog: “Kushiro”
  • Tagalog: “Kusyiro”
  • Tajik: “Kuşiro”
  • Tajik: “Куширо”
  • Tamil: “குஷிரோ”
  • Tatar: “Кусиро”
  • Tatar: “Кучиро”
  • Telugu: “టొకుషిమా లో”
  • Thai: “คุชิโระ”
  • Thai: “คูชิโระ”
  • Tumbuka: “Kushiro”
  • Turkish: “Kushiro”
  • Ukrainian: “Кусіро”
  • Ukrainian: “Кушіро”
  • Urdu: “کوشیرو”
  • Venetian: “Kushiro”
  • Vietnamese: “Kushiro, Hokkaidō”
  • Vietnamese: “Kushiro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kushiro, Hokkaidō”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kushiro”
  • Welsh: “Kushiro-shi”
  • Wu Chinese: “钏路市”
  • Yue Chinese: “釧路”

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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 “Kushiro”. Photo: Midori, CC BY 3.0.