Sakurajima
Sakurajima is an active stratovolcano, formerly an island and now a peninsula, in Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan. It is the most active volcano in Japan.Photo: TANAKA Juuyoh, CC BY 3.0.
Photo: Nerotaso, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,117 metres
- Description: volcano and island located in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Mount Sakurajima” and “Sakura Island”
Photo: Takobou, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: BirdsEyeLV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Hirase, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sakurajima and Yunohira lookout.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Higashi-Sakurajimacho and Furusatocho.
Sakurajima
- Categories: stratovolcano, former island, presque-isle, island, and landform
- Location: Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.5806° or 31° 34′ 50″ northLongitude
130.658° or 130° 39′ 29″ eastElevation
1,117 metres (3,665 feet)Open location code
8Q3GHMJ5+65OpenStreetMap ID
node 1280125814OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcanoWikidata ID
Q128841
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Satellite Map
Discover Sakurajima from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sakurajima” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sakurajima”
- Arabic: “بركان ساكورا جيما”
- Arabic: “ساكوراجيما”
- Basque: “Sakurajima”
- Belarusian: “Сакурадзіма”
- Bengali: “সাকুরাজিমা”
- Bulgarian: “Сакураджима”
- Burmese: “ဆခုရဂျိမ”
- Catalan: “Sakurajima”
- Cebuano: “Sakura Jima”
- Chinese: “樱岛”
- Chinese: “櫻島”
- Chinese: “櫻島火山”
- Czech: “Sakura-džima”
- Czech: “Sakuradžima”
- Danish: “Sakurajima”
- Dutch: “Sakurajima”
- Esperanto: “Sakurajima”
- Estonian: “Sakurashima”
- Finnish: “Sakurajima”
- French: “Minami-dake”
- French: “mont Minami”
- French: “mont Naka”
- French: “Naka-dake”
- French: “Sakura-jima”
- French: “Sakurajima”
- Galician: “Sakurajima”
- Galician: “Volcán Sakurajima”
- German: “Sakura-Jima”
- German: “Sakurajima”
- German: “桜島”
- Greek: “Σακουρατζίμα”
- Hebrew: “סקורג’ימה”
- Hungarian: “Sakurajima”
- Hungarian: “Szakuradzsima”
- Indonesian: “Sakurajima”
- Italian: “Sakurajima”
- Japanese: “Sakura-jima”
- Japanese: “さくらじま”
- Japanese: “桜島”
- Japanese: “桜島岳”
- Korean: “사쿠라지마”
- Korean: “사쿠라지마섬”
- Latin: “Sakurajima”
- Lithuanian: “Sakuradžima”
- Macedonian: “Сакураџима”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Sakurajima”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sakurajimafjellet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sakurajima”
- Norwegian: “Sakurajima”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sakurajima”
- Persian: “ساکوراجیما”
- Polish: “Sakurajima”
- Portuguese: “Sakurajima”
- Romanian: “Sakurajima”
- Russian: “Сакурадзима”
- Slovak: “Sakura-džima”
- Slovak: “Sakuradžima”
- Slovenian: “Sakuradžima”
- Spanish: “isla del cerezo”
- Spanish: “isla Sakura”
- Spanish: “monte Sakurajima”
- Spanish: “Sakurajima”
- Spanish: “Volcan Sakurajima”
- Spanish: “volcán Sakurajima”
- Spanish: “Volcán Sakurajima”
- Swedish: “Sakurajima”
- Tagalog: “Sakurajima”
- Thai: “เกาะซากูระ”
- Thai: “ซากูราจิมะ”
- Turkish: “sakurajima yanardağı”
- Turkish: “Sakurajima”
- Ukrainian: “Сакура-джіма”
- Ukrainian: “Сакура-дзіма”
- Ukrainian: “Сакурадзіма”
- Vietnamese: “Sakurajima”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sakurajima”
- Welsh: “Sakurajima”
- Wu Chinese: “樱岛”
- Yue Chinese: “櫻島”
- “桜島”
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