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Mito

Mito is the capital city of , in the northern of . As of 1 January 2024, the city had an estimated population of 268,036 in 126,055 households and a population density of 1,233 persons per km2.
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  • Type: City with 271,000 residents
  • Description: city in Japan, seat of Ibaraki Prefecture
  • Also known as: “Mito Shi” and “Mito, Ibaraki”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kairakuen and Mito.

Garden
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Kairaku-en is a Japanese garden located in Mito, , . Along with and Koraku-en, it is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan.

Railway station
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Station is a joint-use passenger railway station in the city of , Ibaraki, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company and the third sector Kashima Rinkai Railway. The station premises are managed by JR East.

Arts center
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is an arts complex in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. It opened in 1990 as part of the centennial celebrations of the municipality of Mito. There is a concert hall that seats 680, a theater for up to 636, a contemporary art gallery, and a landmark tower, which rises 100 meters.

Mito

Latitude
36.3659° or 36° 21′ 57″ north
Longitude
140.4732° or 140° 28′ 23″ east
Population
271,000
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
Open location code
8R829F8F+97
Open­Street­Map ID
node 736355846
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2111899
Wiki­data ID
Q204249
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Mito” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ميتو، إيباراكي”
  • Arabic: “ميتو”
  • Armenian: “Միտո”
  • Asturian: “Mito”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mito”
  • Basque: “Mito”
  • Belarusian: “Міто”
  • Bengali: “মিতো”
  • Bulgarian: “Мито”
  • Catalan: “Mito”
  • Cebuano: “Mito-shi”
  • Chechen: “Мито”
  • Chinese: “Mito-chhī”
  • Chinese: “水戶”
  • Chinese: “水戶市”
  • Chinese: “水户市”
  • Chinese: “水戸”
  • Czech: “Mito”
  • Danish: “Mito”
  • Dutch: “Mito”
  • Esperanto: “Mito”
  • Estonian: “Mito”
  • Finnish: “Mito”
  • French: “Mito-shi”
  • French: “Mito”
  • Galician: “Mito, Xapón”
  • Galician: “Mito”
  • Georgian: “მიტო”
  • German: “Mito”
  • Greek: “Μίτο”
  • Gujarati: “મિટો”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mito-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Súi-fu-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “מיטו”
  • Hindi: “मितो”
  • Hungarian: “Mito”
  • Indonesian: “Mito, Ibaraki”
  • Indonesian: “Mito”
  • Irish: “Mito”
  • Italian: “Mito”
  • Japanese: “Mito-shi”
  • Japanese: “みとし”
  • Japanese: “ミトシ”
  • Japanese: “水戸”
  • Japanese: “水戸市”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಟೊ”
  • Korean: “미도 시”
  • Korean: “미토시”
  • Latvian: “Mita”
  • Literary Chinese: “水戶市”
  • Lithuanian: “Mitas”
  • Malagasy: “Mito”
  • Malay: “Mito, Ibaraki”
  • Malay: “Mito”
  • Marathi: “मितो”
  • Mazanderani: “میتو، ایباراکی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mito-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mito”
  • Norwegian: “Mito”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mito”
  • Persian: “میتو، ایباراکی”
  • Persian: “میتو”
  • Polish: “Mito”
  • Portuguese: “Mito”
  • Romanian: “Mito”
  • Russian: “Мито”
  • Sardinian: “Mito (Giapone)”
  • Sardinian: “Mito”
  • Scots: “Mito”
  • Serbian: “Mito”
  • Serbian: “Мито”
  • Serbian: “水戸市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mito, Ibaraki”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mito”
  • Sinhala: “මිටෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Mito, prefektura Ibaraki”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میتو، ایباراکی”
  • Spanish: “Mito Ibaraki”
  • Spanish: “Mito”
  • Swahili: “Mito, Ibaraki”
  • Swahili: “Mito”
  • Swedish: “Mito”
  • Tagalog: “Mito, Ibaraki”
  • Tagalog: “Mito”
  • Tajik: “Mito”
  • Tajik: “Мито”
  • Tamil: “மிட்டோ”
  • Tatar: “Мито”
  • Telugu: “మిటో”
  • Thai: “มิโตะ”
  • Turkish: “Mito”
  • Ukrainian: “Міто”
  • Ukrainian: “Суйфу”
  • Urdu: “میتو، ایباراکی”
  • Uzbek: “Mito”
  • Venetian: “Mito”
  • Vietnamese: “Mito, Ibaraki”
  • Vietnamese: “Mito”
  • Vietnamese: “Thủy Hộ thị”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mito, Ibaraki”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mito”
  • Wu Chinese: “水户市”
  • Yue Chinese: “水戶”
  • Zulu: “IMito”

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