Morioka

Morioka is the capital of Prefecture. Due to its transport links, it's a good option for a stopover on the way to either or or a base for day trips to Kakunodate and some of the other small towns in the area.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Morioka Station and Morioka Castle.

Railway station
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is a major railway station in Morioka, , . It is operated by JR East.

Castle
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is a hirayama-style Japanese castle constructed in 1611. It was the seat of the Nanbu clan, a tozama daimyō clan who ruled over Morioka Domain, Mutsu Province in the of northern during the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate.

Museum
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The is an art museum in Morioka, . It was opened in 2001. The museum has a permanent exhibition of works by local artists Tetsugoro Yorozu, Shunsuke Matsumoto and Yasutake Funakoshi, and houses temporary exhibitions on both Japanese and foreign themes.

Morioka

Latitude
39.7021° or 39° 42′ 8″ north
Longitude
141.1545° or 141° 9′ 16″ east
Population
290,000
Elevation
138 metres (453 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP MRW
Open location code
8RF3P523+VR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 471357225
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2111834
Wiki­data ID
Q200077
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Morioka” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Morioka”
  • Arabic: “موريوكا، إيواته”
  • Arabic: “موريوكا”
  • Aragonese: “Morioka”
  • Armenian: “Մորիոկա”
  • Asturian: “Morioka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Morioka”
  • Balinese: “Morioka, Iwaté”
  • Basque: “Morioka”
  • Belarusian: “Марыёка”
  • Belarusian: “Марыока”
  • Bengali: “মোরিয়োকা”
  • Bulgarian: “Мориока”
  • Catalan: “Morioka”
  • Cebuano: “Morioka-shi (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Morioka-shi (kapital sa prepektura)”
  • Cebuano: “Morioka-shi”
  • Chechen: “Мориока”
  • Chinese: “Morioka-chhī”
  • Chinese: “盛冈市”
  • Chinese: “盛岡”
  • Chinese: “盛岡市”
  • Croatian: “Morioka”
  • Czech: “Morioka”
  • Danish: “Morioka”
  • Dutch: “Morioka”
  • Esperanto: “Morioka”
  • Estonian: “Morioka”
  • Finnish: “Morioka”
  • French: “Morioka”
  • Galician: “Morioka”
  • Georgian: “მორიოკა”
  • German: “Morioka”
  • Greek: “Μοριόκα”
  • Gujarati: “મોરિઓકા”
  • Hebrew: “מוריאוקה”
  • Hindi: “मोरिओका”
  • Hungarian: “Morioka”
  • Indonesian: “Morioka, Iwate”
  • Indonesian: “Morioka”
  • Irish: “Morioka”
  • Italian: “Morioka”
  • Japanese: “Morioka-shi”
  • Japanese: “もりおか”
  • Japanese: “モリオカ”
  • Japanese: “もりおかし”
  • Japanese: “モリオカシ”
  • Japanese: “盛岡”
  • Japanese: “盛岡市”
  • Kannada: “ಮೋರಿಯೊಕಾ”
  • Korean: “모리오카 시”
  • Korean: “모리오카”
  • Korean: “모리오카시”
  • Latin: “Morioka”
  • Latvian: “Morioka”
  • Literary Chinese: “盛岡市”
  • Lithuanian: “Morijoka”
  • Lithuanian: “Morioka”
  • Malagasy: “Morioka”
  • Malay: “Morioka”
  • Marathi: “मोरिओका”
  • Marathi: “मोरियोका”
  • Mazanderani: “موریوکا، ایواته”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Morioka-chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Мориока”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Morioka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Morioka”
  • Norwegian: “Morioka”
  • Persian: “موریوکا، ایواته”
  • Persian: “موریوکا”
  • Polish: “Morioka”
  • Portuguese: “Morioka”
  • Romanian: “Morioka”
  • Russian: “Мориока”
  • Sardinian: “Morioka”
  • Scots: “Morioka”
  • Serbian: “Morioka”
  • Serbian: “Мориока”
  • Serbian: “盛岡市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Morioka”
  • Sinhala: “මොරියෝකා”
  • Slovak: “Morioka”
  • Slovenian: “Morioka”
  • South Azerbaijani: “موریوکا، ایواته”
  • Spanish: “Morioka Iwate”
  • Spanish: “Morioka”
  • Swahili: “Morioka, Iwate”
  • Swahili: “Morioka”
  • Swedish: “Morioka”
  • Tagalog: “Morioka”
  • Tajik: “Morioka”
  • Tajik: “Мориока”
  • Tamil: “மோரியக்கா”
  • Tatar: “Мориока”
  • Telugu: “మొరిఒక”
  • Thai: “โมริโอกะ”
  • Thai: “โมะริโอะกะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Morioka”
  • Turkish: “Morioka”
  • Ukrainian: “Моріока”
  • Urdu: “موریوکا، ایواتے”
  • Uzbek: “Morioka”
  • Venetian: “Morioka”
  • Vietnamese: “Morioka”
  • Volapük: “Morioka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Morioka”
  • Welsh: “Morioka”
  • Wu Chinese: “盛冈市”
  • Yue Chinese: “盛岡”

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