Matsue
Matsue is an old castle town at the heart of Izumo Province, and with a population of approximately 207,000 is its largest city.
- Type: City with 204,000 residents
- Description: city in Shimane prefecture, Japan
- Neighbors: Izumo, Sakaiminato, and Yasugi
Places of Interest
Highlights include Matsue Castle and Shimane Art Museum.
Matsue Castle
Castle
Shimane Art Museum
Museum
Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tamayu.
Matsue
- Categories: special city of Japan, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, core city of Japan, city of Japan, and locality
- Location: Shimane, Chugoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.4681° or 35° 28′ 5″ north
Longitude
133.0488° or 133° 2′ 56″ east
Population
204,000
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Inception
March 31st, 2005
Open location code
8Q7MF29X+6G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
Discover Matsue from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Matsue” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماتسوا، شيمانه”
- Arabic: “ماتسوا”
- Armenian: “Մացուե”
- Asturian: “Matsue”
- Azerbaijani: “Matsue”
- Balinese: “Matsué, Shimané”
- Basque: “Matsue”
- Bavarian: “Matsue”
- Belarusian: “Мацуэ”
- Bengali: “মাটসো”
- Bulgarian: “Мацуе”
- Catalan: “Matsue”
- Cebuano: “Matsue Shi”
- Chechen: “Мацуэ”
- Chinese: “Matue-chhī”
- Chinese: “松江市”
- Czech: “Macue”
- Danish: “Matsue”
- Dutch: “Matsue”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماتسوا”
- Esperanto: “Macue”
- Esperanto: “Macuo”
- Estonian: “Matsue”
- Finnish: “Matsue”
- French: “Matsue-shi”
- French: “Matsue”
- Galician: “Matsue”
- German: “Matsue”
- Greek: “Ματσούε”
- Gujarati: “માત્સુ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Matsue-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “מצואואה”
- Hindi: “मात्सुई”
- Hungarian: “Macue”
- Indonesian: “Matsue, Shimane”
- Indonesian: “Matsue”
- Irish: “Matsue”
- Italian: “Matsue”
- Japanese: “Matsue-shi”
- Japanese: “まつえし”
- Japanese: “マツエシ”
- Japanese: “松江”
- Japanese: “松江市”
- Kannada: “ಮಾಟ್ಸು”
- Korean: “마쓰에”
- Korean: “마쓰에시”
- Korean: “마쯔에 시”
- Korean: “마츠에 시”
- Latvian: “Matsuje”
- Literary Chinese: “松江市”
- Lithuanian: “Macujė”
- Luxembourgish: “Matsue”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Matsue”
- Malagasy: “Matsue”
- Malay: “Matsue”
- Marathi: “मात्सू”
- Mazanderani: “ماتسوئه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Matsue-chhī”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Matue-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Matsue”
- Norwegian: “Matsue”
- Persian: “ماتسوئه”
- Polish: “Matsue”
- Portuguese: “Matsue”
- Romanian: “Matsue”
- Russian: “Мацуэ”
- Sardinian: “Matsue”
- Scots: “Matsue”
- Serbian: “Macue”
- Serbian: “Мацуе”
- Serbian: “松江市”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Macue”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Matsue”
- Sinhala: “මට්සුයි”
- Slovenian: “Matsue”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماتسوئه”
- Spanish: “Matsue Shimane”
- Spanish: “Matsue”
- Swahili: “Matsue, Shimane”
- Swahili: “Matsue”
- Swedish: “Matsue”
- Tagalog: “Matsue”
- Tajik: “Matsue”
- Tajik: “Матсуе”
- Tamil: “மட்சுயே”
- Tatar: “Матсуе”
- Telugu: “మట్సుయే”
- Thai: “มัตสึเอะ”
- Tumbuka: “Matsue”
- Turkish: “Matsue”
- Ukrainian: “Мацуе”
- Urdu: “ماتسو، شیمانے”
- Venetian: “Matsue”
- Vietnamese: “Matsue”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Matsue”
- Waray (Philippines): “Matsue, Shimane”
- Waray (Philippines): “Matsue”
- Welsh: “Matsue”
- Wu Chinese: “松江市”
- Yue Chinese: “松江市”
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