Masuda

Masuda is a small city of a little more than 50,000 people in Prefecture. It is the birthplace of Kakinomoto Hitomaro.
Tap on a place
to explore it
  • Type: City with 45,000 residents
  • Description: city in Shimane Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: Masuda-shi” and “Masuda, Shimane
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sesshū Memorial Museum and Japanese Red Cross Masuda Hospital.

Museum
opened in Masuda, , Japan, in 1990. Located next to the site of the Daiki-an, said to have been the site of Sesshū's death and burial, the museum stages exhibitions relating to the artist and to the history of Masuda.

Railway station
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Masuda, , . It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company.

Masuda

Latitude
34.6749° or 34° 40′ 30″ north
Longitude
131.8429° or 131° 50′ 34″ east
Population
45,000
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
IATA airport code
IWJ
United Nations Location Code
JP MSD
Open location code
8Q6HMRFV+W5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 697538012
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1857594
Wiki­data ID
Q753731
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Masuda from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Masuda” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: ماسودا، شيمانه
  • Arabic: ماسودا
  • Armenian: Մասուդա
  • Asturian: Masuda
  • Bengali: মাসুদা
  • Bulgarian: Масуда
  • Catalan: Masuda
  • Cebuano: Masuda Shi
  • Cebuano: Masuda
  • Chechen: Масуда (гӀала)
  • Chechen: Масуда
  • Chinese: Masuda-chhī
  • Chinese: 益田
  • Chinese: 益田市
  • Czech: Masuda
  • Danish: Masuda
  • Dutch: Masuda
  • Finnish: Masuda
  • French: Masuda
  • Galician: Masuda
  • German: Masuda
  • Greek: Μασούντα
  • Gujarati: માસુદા
  • Hebrew: מסודה
  • Hindi: मासुदा
  • Hungarian: Maszuda
  • Indonesian: Masuda, Shimane
  • Indonesian: Masuda
  • Irish: Masuda
  • Italian: Masuda
  • Japanese: Masuda-shi
  • Japanese: ますだし
  • Japanese: 益田
  • Japanese: 益田市
  • Kannada: ಮಾಸುಡಾ
  • Korean: 마스다 시
  • Korean: 마스다시
  • Latvian: Masuda
  • Literary Chinese: 益田市
  • Lithuanian: Masuda
  • Macedonian: Масуда
  • Malagasy: Masuda
  • Malay: Masuda
  • Marathi: मासुदा
  • Mazanderani: ماسودا، شیمانه
  • Min Nan Chinese: Masuda-chhī
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Masuda
  • Persian: ماسودا، شیمانه
  • Polish: Masuda
  • Portuguese: Masuda
  • Romanian: Masuda
  • Russian: Масуд
  • Russian: Масуда
  • Scots: Masuda, Shimane
  • Sinhala: මසුඩා
  • Slovak: Masuda
  • Slovenian: Masuda
  • South Azerbaijani: ماسودا، شیمانه
  • Spanish: Masuda
  • Swedish: Masuda, Shimane
  • Swedish: Masuda
  • Tagalog: Masuda, Shimane
  • Tajik: Masuda
  • Tajik: Масуда
  • Tamil: மாசுடா
  • Tatar: Масуда
  • Telugu: మసుడా
  • Thai: มาซูดะ
  • Turkish: Masuda
  • Ukrainian: Масуда
  • Urdu: ماسودا
  • Vietnamese: Masuda, Shimane
  • Vietnamese: Masuda
  • Waray (Philippines): Masuda, Shimane
  • Waray (Philippines): Masuda
  • Yue Chinese: 益田

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Masuda”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Tokiwacho and Motomachi.

Shimane: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Matsue, Izumo, Oda, and Oki Islands.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
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 “Masuda”. Photo: Asturio Cantabrio, CC BY-SA 4.0.