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Okayama

Okayama

Okayama is a major transit hub for western . 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.
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  • Type: City with 719,000 residents
  • Description: city in Okayama prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Okayama-shi” and “Okayamashi”
  • Postal code: 700-8544
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
Photo: ccfarmer, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Crow Castle and Kōraku-en.

Castle
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Okayama Castle is a Japanese castle in the city of Okayama in in . The main tower was completed in 1597, destroyed in 1945 and replicated in concrete in 1966.

Park
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is a Japanese garden located in Okayama, . It is one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, along with and .

Railway station
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is a major railway station in , , Japan. The station is operated by West Japan Railway Company.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Naka-ku and Minami-ku.

Suburb
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is one of four wards of Okayama, , Japan. The ward has an area of 51.24 km2 and a population of 138,949. The population density is 2,711 inhabitants per square kilometer.

Suburb
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is one of four wards of Okayama, , Japan. The ward has an area of 127.36 km2 and a population of 165,193. The population density is 1,297 per km2.

Okayama

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
United Nations Location Code
JP OKJ
Open location code
8Q6MMW49+5Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 703048335
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1854383
Wiki­data ID
Q200078
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Okayama” goes by many names.
  • 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: “Okayama-chhī”
  • 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”
  • German: “Okajama”
  • 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”
  • 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: “岡山区”
  • Japanese: “岡山市”
  • Kannada: “ಓಕಾಯಾಮಾ”
  • Korean: “오까야마 시”
  • Korean: “오카야마 시”
  • Korean: “오카야마”
  • 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”
  • Serbian: “岡山市”
  • 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: “Cương Sơn thị”
  • Vietnamese: “Cương Sơn”
  • Vietnamese: “Okayama”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Okayama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Okayama”
  • Welsh: “Okayama”
  • Wu Chinese: “冈山市”
  • Yue Chinese: “岡山市”

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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 “Okayama”. Photo: Reggaeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.