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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 204,000 residents
- Description: city in Shimane prefecture, Japan
- Neighbors: Izumo, Sakaiminato, and Yasugi
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Matsue Castle and Shimane Art Museum.
Matsue Castle
Castle
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Matsue Castle is a Japanese castle located in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture. Matsue Castle was constructed from 1607 to 1611 by Horio Yoshiharu, the first daimyō of the Matsue Domain, during the early Edo period.
Shimane Art Museum
Museum
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The Shimane Art Museum opened in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan in 1999. Designed by Kiyonori Kikutake and with a total floor area of 12,500 square metres, it houses a collection of Japanese and Western art, including Momoyama folding screens and paintings by Corot, Sisley, Monet, and Gauguin.
Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum
Museum
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The Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum is a literary museum located in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. Established in 1933, it is dedicated to the life and work of writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn, also known by the name Yakumo Koizumi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tamayu.
Matsue
- Categories: special city of Japan, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, city of Japan, core city of Japan, and locality
- Location: Shimane, Chugoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.4681° or 35° 28′ 5″ northLongitude
133.0488° or 133° 2′ 56″ eastPopulation
204,000Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)Inception
March 31st, 2005Open location code
8Q7MF29X+6GOpenStreetMap ID
node 1735961887OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Matsue” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماتسوا، شيمانه”
- Arabic: “ماتسوا”
- Armenian: “Մացուե”
- Asturian: “Matsue”
- Azerbaijani: “Matsue”
- 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”
- Japanese: “水の都”
- 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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