Okayama
Okayama is a major transit hub for western Japan. But with white peaches, a brooding black castle, and the famous garden of Kōrakuen, there are plenty of reasons to catch a later train and get out of the station to explore.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Crow Castle and Kōraku-en.
Crow Castle
Castle
Okayama Station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Naka-ku and Minami-ku.
Okayama
- Categories: city designated by government ordinance, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, city of Japan, and locality
- Location: Okayama, Chugoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.6554° or 34° 39′ 19″ north
Longitude
133.9195° or 133° 55′ 10″ east
Population
719,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
OKJ
UN/LOCODE
JP OKJ
Open location code
8Q6MMW49+5Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Okayama” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Okajama”
- Arabic: “أوكاياما، أوكاياما”
- Arabic: “أوكاياما”
- Armenian: “Օկայամա”
- Asturian: “Okayama”
- Azerbaijani: “Okayama”
- Basque: “Okayama”
- Belarusian: “Акаяма”
- Bengali: “ওকায়ামা”
- Breton: “Okayama”
- Bulgarian: “Окаяма”
- Catalan: “Okayama”
- Cebuano: “Okayama Shi”
- Chechen: “Окаяма (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Окаяма”
- Chinese: “冈山市”
- Chinese: “岡山”
- Chinese: “岡山市”
- Croatian: “Okajama”
- Czech: “Okajama”
- Danish: “Okayama”
- Dutch: “Okayama”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوكاياما”
- Esperanto: “Okajama”
- Esperanto: “Okajamo”
- Estonian: “Okayama”
- Fijian: “Okayama”
- Finnish: “Okayama”
- French: “Okayama”
- Galician: “Okayama”
- Georgian: “ოკაიამა”
- German: “Okayama”
- Greek: “Οκαγιάμα”
- Gujarati: “ઓકાયામા”
- Hakka Chinese: “Okayama-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “אוקיאמה”
- Hindi: “ओकायामा”
- Hungarian: “Okajama”
- Indonesian: “Okayama, Okayama”
- Indonesian: “Okayama”
- Irish: “Okayama”
- Italian: “Okayama”
- Japanese: “Okayama-shi”
- Japanese: “おかやま”
- Japanese: “オカヤマ”
- Japanese: “おかやまし”
- Japanese: “オカヤマシ”
- Japanese: “岡山”
- Japanese: “岡山市”
- Kannada: “ಓಕಾಯಾಮಾ”
- Korean: “오까야마 시”
- Korean: “오카야마 시”
- Korean: “오카야마시”
- Latvian: “Okajama”
- Literary Chinese: “岡山市”
- Lithuanian: “Okajama”
- Luxembourgish: “Okayama”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Okayama”
- Macedonian: “Окајама”
- Malagasy: “Okayama”
- Malay: “Okayama, Okayama”
- Malay: “Okayama”
- Marathi: “ओकायामा”
- Mazanderani: “اوکایاما”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Okayama-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Окаяма”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Okayama”
- Norwegian: “Okayama”
- Ossetian: “Окаямæ (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Окаямæ”
- Persian: “اوکایاما”
- Piemontese: “Okayama”
- Polish: “Okayama”
- Portuguese: “Okayama”
- Romanian: “Okayama”
- Russian: “Окаяма”
- Sardinian: “Okayama”
- Scots: “Okayama”
- Serbian: “Okajama”
- Serbian: “Окајама”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Okajama”
- Sinhala: “ඔකයමා”
- Slovenian: “Okajama”
- Spanish: “Okayama”
- Swahili: “Okayama, Okayama”
- Swahili: “Okayama”
- Swedish: “Okayama”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Okayama”
- Tagalog: “Okayama”
- Tajik: “Okajama”
- Tajik: “Окаяма”
- Tamil: “ஒகாயாமா”
- Tatar: “Окаяма”
- Telugu: “ఒకాయామా”
- Thai: “โอกายามะ”
- Tumbuka: “Okayama”
- Turkish: “Okayama”
- Ukrainian: “Окаяма”
- Urdu: “اوکایاما”
- Uzbek: “Okayama”
- Venetian: “Okayama”
- Vietnamese: “Okayama”
- Waray (Philippines): “Okayama”
- Welsh: “Okayama”
- Wu Chinese: “冈山市”
- Yue Chinese: “岡山市”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Daiku 1-chome and Shikatacho 1-chome.
Okayama: Must-Visit Destinations
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