Nikko
Nikkō is a town of 76,000 people to the north of Tokyo, in Tochigi Prefecture. Attractions include the mausoleum of shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu and that of his grandson Iemitsu, and the Futarasan Shrine, which dates to the year 767 AD.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 83,400 residents
- Description: city in Tochigi prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Nikkō”, “Nikko City”, “Nikko-shi”, and “Nikkō-shi”
- Neighbors: Kanuma, Nasushiobara, Numata, and Utsunomiya
Photo: 663highland, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Imaichi Station and Kami-Imaichi.
Imaichi Station
Railway station
Photo: MaedaAkihiko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Imaichi Station is a railway station in the city of Nikkō, Tochigi, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company.
Kami-Imaichi
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kami-Imaichi Station is a railway station in the city of Nikkō, Tochigi, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tobu Railway. The station is numbered "TN-24".
Daiyamuko
Railway station
Photo: LERK, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Daiyamukō Station is a railway station in the city of Nikkō, Tochigi, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tōbu Railway. The station is numbered "TN-51".
Nikko
- Categories: city of Japan, holy city, monzenmachi, and locality
- Location: Tochigi, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.7198° or 36° 43′ 11″ northLongitude
139.6981° or 139° 41′ 53″ eastPopulation
83,400Elevation
555 metres (1,821 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP UYTOpen location code
8Q8XPM9X+W7OpenStreetMap ID
node 574839709OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Nikko” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نيكو، توتشيغي”
- Arabic: “نيكو”
- Armenian: “Նիկկո”
- Asturian: “Nikkō”
- Azerbaijani: “Nikko”
- Basque: “Nikkō”
- Belarusian: “Ніко”
- Bengali: “নিক্কো”
- Catalan: “Nikkō”
- Cebuano: “Nikkō”
- Chechen: “Никко”
- Chinese: “Nikkô-chhī”
- Chinese: “日光市”
- Czech: “Nikkó”
- Danish: “Nikko”
- Dutch: “Nikko”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه نيكو”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيكو”
- Esperanto: “Nikko”
- Estonian: “Nikkō”
- Finnish: “Nikko”
- Finnish: “Nikkō”
- Finnish: “Nikkou”
- French: “Nikkō-shi”
- French: “Nikkō”
- Galician: “Nikkō”
- German: “Nikko”
- German: “Nikkō”
- Greek: “Νικκό”
- Gujarati: “નિક્કો”
- Hebrew: “מקדשי ניקו”
- Hebrew: “ניקו”
- Hindi: “निक्को”
- Hungarian: “Nikkó”
- Indonesian: “Nikkō, Tochigi”
- Indonesian: “Nikko”
- Indonesian: “Nikkō”
- Irish: “Nikkō”
- Italian: “Nikko”
- Italian: “Nikkō”
- Japanese: “Nikkō-shi”
- Japanese: “にっこうし”
- Japanese: “日光”
- Japanese: “日光市”
- Japanese: “日光町”
- Kannada: “ನಿಕ್ಕೊ”
- Korean: “닛코 시”
- Korean: “닛코”
- Korean: “닛코시”
- Latvian: “Nikko”
- Literary Chinese: “日光市”
- Lithuanian: “Nikkō”
- Lithuanian: “Niko”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Nikkō”
- Malagasy: “Nikkō”
- Malay: “Nikko”
- Maltese: “Nikko”
- Maltese: “Nikkō”
- Marathi: “निकको”
- Mazanderani: “نیکو، توچیگی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nikkô-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nikko”
- Persian: “نیکو، توچیگی”
- Polish: “Nikko”
- Polish: “Nikkō”
- Portuguese: “Nikko”
- Portuguese: “Nikkō”
- Romanian: “Nikko”
- Romanian: “Nikkō”
- Russian: “Никко”
- Serbian: “Никко, Тоћиги”
- Sinhala: “නික්කෝ”
- Slovenian: “Nikkō”
- Slovenian: “Niko”
- South Azerbaijani: “نیکو، توچیقی”
- Spanish: “Nikko-”
- Spanish: “Nikko”
- Spanish: “Nikkō”
- Swahili: “Nikkō, Tochigi”
- Swahili: “Nikko”
- Swahili: “Nikkō”
- Swedish: “Nikko”
- Swedish: “Nikkō”
- Tagalog: “Nikkō, Tochigi”
- Tagalog: “Nikko”
- Tagalog: “Nikkō”
- Tajik: “Nikko”
- Tajik: “Никко”
- Tamil: “நிக்கோ”
- Tatar: “Никко”
- Telugu: “నిక్కో”
- Thai: “นิกโก”
- Turkish: “Nikkō”
- Ukrainian: “Нікко”
- Urdu: “نیکو”
- Uzbek: “Nikkō”
- Vietnamese: “Nikkō, Tochigi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nikkō, Tochigi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nikkō”
- Yue Chinese: “日光市”
- “Nikkō”
- “Nikkō-shi”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Nikko”. Photo: Daderot, Public domain.