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Matsumoto

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  • Type: City with 228,000 residents
  • Description: city in Nagano Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Fukase”, “Fukashi”, “Matsumoto, Nagano”, “Matumoto”, and “Shonai”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Matsumoto Castle and Kaichi School Museum.

Museum
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, originally known as Fukashi Castle, is one of 's premier historic castles, along with and . It was the seat of Matsumoto Domain under the Edo Period Tokugawa shogunate.

Museum
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The Kaichi School in Matsumoto, was one of the first schools in . It opened in a temporary building in May 1873, the year after the first major education reforms were introduced by the new Ministry of Education.

Railway station
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is a train station in the city of Matsumoto, , , operated by East Japan Railway Company, and the private railway operator Alpico Kōtsū.

Matsumoto

Latitude
36.2382° or 36° 14′ 18″ north
Longitude
137.9687° or 137° 58′ 7″ east
Population
228,000
Elevation
593 metres (1,946 feet)
Inception
April 1st, 1889
IATA airport code
MMJ
United Nations Location Code
JP MMJ
Open location code
8Q8V6XQ9+7F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 470328639
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1857519
Wiki­data ID
Q213324
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Matsumoto” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماتسوموتو”
  • Armenian: “Մացումոտո”
  • Asturian: “Matsumoto”
  • Azerbaijani: “Matsumoto”
  • Basque: “Matsumoto”
  • Belarusian: “Мацумота”
  • Bengali: “মাৎসুমোতো”
  • Bulgarian: “Мацумото”
  • Catalan: “Matsumoto”
  • Cebuano: “Matsumoto”
  • Central Kurdish: “ماتسومۆتۆ، ناگانۆ”
  • Chechen: “Мацумото (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Мацумото”
  • Chinese: “Matumoto-chhī”
  • Chinese: “松本”
  • Chinese: “松本市”
  • Czech: “Macumoto”
  • Danish: “Matsumoto”
  • Dutch: “Matsumoto”
  • Esperanto: “Macumoto”
  • Esperanto: “Matsumoto”
  • Esperanto: “urbo Macumoto”
  • Estonian: “Matsumoto”
  • Finnish: “Matsumoto”
  • French: “Matsumoto-shi”
  • French: “Matsumoto”
  • Galician: “Matsumoto”
  • German: “Matsumoto”
  • Greek: “Ματσουμότο”
  • Gujarati: “માત્સુમોટો”
  • Hindi: “मात्सुमोतो”
  • Hungarian: “Macumoto”
  • Indonesian: “Matsumoto, Nagano”
  • Indonesian: “Matsumoto”
  • Irish: “Matsumoto”
  • Italian: “Matsumoto”
  • Japanese: “Matsumoto-shi”
  • Japanese: “まつもとし”
  • Japanese: “松本”
  • Japanese: “松本市”
  • Japanese: “松本町”
  • Kannada: “ಮ್ಯಾಟ್ಸುಮೊಟೊ”
  • Korean: “마쓰모토 시”
  • Korean: “마쓰모토시”
  • Korean: “마츠모토 시”
  • Latvian: “Matsumoto”
  • Literary Chinese: “松本市”
  • Lithuanian: “Matsumotas”
  • Malay: “Matsumoto”
  • Marathi: “मात्सुमोटो”
  • Mazanderani: “ماتسوموتو، ناگانو”
  • Mazanderani: “ماتسوموتو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Matumoto-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Мацумота (Нагано)”
  • Moksha: “Мацумота”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Matsumoto”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Matsumoto i Nagano”
  • Norwegian: “Matsumoto”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Matsumoto”
  • Ossetian: “Мацумото”
  • Persian: “ماتسوموتو، ناگانو”
  • Persian: “ماتسوموتو”
  • Polish: “Matsumoto”
  • Portuguese: “Matsumoto”
  • Romanian: “Matsumoto, Nagano”
  • Romanian: “Matsumoto”
  • Russian: “Мацумото”
  • Scots: “Matsumoto”
  • Serbian: “Macumoto”
  • Serbian: “Мацумото”
  • Serbian: “松本市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Macumoto”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Matsumoto”
  • Sinhala: “මට්සුමොටෝ”
  • Slovak: “Matsumoto”
  • Slovenian: “Macumoto, Nagano”
  • Slovenian: “Matsumoto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماتسوموتو، ناقانو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماتسوموتو”
  • Spanish: “Matsumoto”
  • Swedish: “Matsumoto”
  • Tagalog: “Matsumoto, Nagano”
  • Tagalog: “Matsumoto”
  • Tajik: “Matsumoto”
  • Tajik: “Матсумото”
  • Tamil: “மட்சுமோட்டோ”
  • Tatar: “Матсумото”
  • Tatar: “Мацумото”
  • Telugu: “మాసుమోతో”
  • Thai: “มะสึโมะโตะ”
  • Thai: “มัตสึโมโตะ”
  • Turkish: “Matsumoto”
  • Ukrainian: “Мацумото”
  • Urdu: “ماتسوموتو، ناگانو”
  • Venetian: “Matsumoto”
  • Vietnamese: “Matsumoto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Matsumoto, Nagano”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Matsumoto”
  • Welsh: “Matsumoto”
  • Yue Chinese: “松本”

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