Japan
Shikoku
Ehime

Matsuyama

Matsuyama, meaning "pine mountain", is the homely capital of prefecture. Quite provincial yet hospitable to travelers, and a hub of business and shopping amongst the lazy calm of the countryside, Matsuyama has much to offer in the way of curious literary and cultural assets.
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  • Type: City with 511,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ehime prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Matsuyama, Ehime”, “Matsuyama, Japan”, and “Matuyama”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Matsuyama Castle and Matsuyama City.

Castle
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is a "flatland-mountain"-style Japanese castle that was built in 1603 on Mount Katsuyama, in the city of Matsuyama in , Japan.

Railway station
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Station, informally known as "Shieki", is a passenger railway station located in the city of Matsuyama, , . It is operated by the private transportation company Iyotetsu.

Railway station
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Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of , , Japan. It is operated by JR Shikoku and has the station number "Y46".

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dogo-yunomachi and Dogo-kitamachi.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Matsuyama

Latitude
33.8395° or 33° 50′ 22″ north
Longitude
132.7654° or 132° 45′ 55″ east
Population
511,000
Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)
IATA airport code
MYJ
United Nations Location Code
JP MYJ
Open location code
8Q5JRQQ8+R4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 207689592
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1926099
Wiki­data ID
Q200022
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Matsuyama” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماتسوياما، إهيمه”
  • Arabic: “ماتسوياما”
  • Aragonese: “Matsuyama”
  • Armenian: “Մացույամա”
  • Asturian: “Matsuyama”
  • Azerbaijani: “Matsuyama”
  • Balinese: “Matsuyama, Éhimé”
  • Basque: “Matsuyama”
  • Belarusian: “Мацуяма”
  • Bengali: “মাতসুয়ামা”
  • Bulgarian: “Мацуяма”
  • Catalan: “Matsuyama”
  • Cebuano: “Matsuyama (kapital sa prepektura)”
  • Cebuano: “Matsuyama-shi”
  • Cebuano: “Matsuyama”
  • Chechen: “Мацуяма”
  • Chinese: “Matuyama-chhī”
  • Chinese: “松山”
  • Chinese: “松山市”
  • Croatian: “Macujama”
  • Czech: “Macujama”
  • Danish: “Matsuyama”
  • Dutch: “Matsuyama”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماتسوياما”
  • Esperanto: “Macujama”
  • Esperanto: “Macujamo”
  • Esperanto: “Matsujama”
  • Esperanto: “Matsujamo”
  • Estonian: “Matsuyama”
  • Finnish: “Matsuyama”
  • French: “Matsuyama”
  • Galician: “Matsuyama”
  • Georgian: “მაცუიამა”
  • German: “Matsujama”
  • German: “Matsuyama”
  • Greek: “Ματσουγιάμα”
  • Gujarati: “મત્સુયામા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Matsuyama-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tshiùng-sân-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “מצויאמה”
  • Hindi: “मात्सुयामा”
  • Hungarian: “Macujama”
  • Icelandic: “Matsuyama”
  • Iloko: “Matsuyama”
  • Indonesian: “Matsuyama, Ehime”
  • Indonesian: “Matsuyama”
  • Irish: “Matsuyama”
  • Italian: “Matsuyama”
  • Japanese: “Matsuyama-shi”
  • Japanese: “まつやまし”
  • Japanese: “松山”
  • Japanese: “松山市”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಟ್ಸುಯಾಮಾ”
  • Korean: “마쓰야마 시”
  • Korean: “마쓰야마”
  • Korean: “마쓰야마시”
  • Korean: “마쯔야마 시”
  • Korean: “마츠야마 시”
  • Latvian: “Macujama”
  • Literary Chinese: “松山市”
  • Lithuanian: “Macujama”
  • Lithuanian: “Matsuyama”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Matsuyama”
  • Malagasy: “Matsuyama”
  • Malay: “Matsuyama”
  • Maori: “Matsuyama”
  • Marathi: “मात्सुयामा”
  • Mazanderani: “ماتسویاما، اهیمه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Matsuyama-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Matuyama-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Мацуяма”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Matsuyama”
  • Norwegian: “Matsuyama”
  • Ossetian: “Мацуямæ”
  • Persian: “ماتسویاما، اهیمه”
  • Persian: “ماتسویاما”
  • Polish: “Matsuyama”
  • Portuguese: “Matsuyama”
  • Romanian: “Matsuyama”
  • Russian: “Мацуяма”
  • Sardinian: “Matsuyama”
  • Scots: “Matsuyama”
  • Serbian: “Macujama”
  • Serbian: “Мацујама”
  • Serbian: “松山市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Macujama”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Matsujama”
  • Sinhala: “මට්සුයාමා”
  • Slovenian: “Matsujama”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماتسویاما، اهیمه”
  • Spanish: “Matsuyama Ehime”
  • Spanish: “Matsuyama shi”
  • Spanish: “Matsuyama-shi”
  • Spanish: “Matsuyama”
  • Sundanese: “Matsuyama, Ehime”
  • Sundanese: “Matsuyama”
  • Swahili: “Matsuyama, Ehime”
  • Swahili: “Matsuyama”
  • Swedish: “Matsuyama”
  • Tagalog: “Matsuyama”
  • Tajik: “Matsujama”
  • Tajik: “Матсуяма”
  • Tamil: “மட்சுயமா”
  • Tatar: “Матсуяма”
  • Tatar: “Мацуяма”
  • Telugu: “మత్సుయామా”
  • Thai: “มะสึยะมะ”
  • Thai: “มัตสึยามะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Matsuyama”
  • Turkish: “Matsuyama”
  • Ukrainian: “Мацуяма”
  • Urdu: “ماتسویاما، اہیمے”
  • Uzbek: “Matsuyama”
  • Venetian: “Matsuyama”
  • Vietnamese: “Matsuyama”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Matsuyama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Matsuyama, Ehime”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Matsuyama”
  • Welsh: “Matsuyama”
  • Wu Chinese: “松山市”
  • Yue Chinese: “松山”

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