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Okura

Okura　, sometimes written Ohkura, is a village in , designated as one of the "Most Beautiful Villages in Japan". It's most known for Hijiori Onsen and Hijiori kokeshi.
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  • Type: Village with 3,410 residents
  • Description: village in Mogami District, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Okura Village”, “Okura-mura”, and “Ōkura, Yamagata”
  • Neighbors:

Okura

Latitude
38.7041° or 38° 42′ 15″ north
Longitude
140.2304° or 140° 13′ 50″ east
Population
3,410
Open location code
8RC2P63J+J5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752206812
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Wiki­data ID
Q1347371
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Okura” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوكورا”
  • Burmese: “အိုးခုရရွာ”
  • Chinese: “大藏村”
  • Czech: “Ókura”
  • Dutch: “Ōkura”
  • French: “Okura”
  • French: “Ōkura”
  • German: “Okura”
  • German: “Ōkura”
  • Hungarian: “Ókura”
  • Indonesian: “Ōkura, Yamagata”
  • Irish: “Okura”
  • Italian: “Ōkura”
  • Japanese: “Ōkura-mura”
  • Japanese: “おおくらむら”
  • Japanese: “大蔵村”
  • Korean: “오쿠라무라”
  • Korean: “오쿠라촌”
  • Persian: “اوکورا، یاماگاتا”
  • Polish: “Okura”
  • Polish: “Ōkura”
  • Portuguese: “Ōkura”
  • Russian: “Окура”
  • Spanish: “Ōkura”
  • Tagalog: “Ōkura, Yamagata”
  • Tagalog: “Ōkura”
  • Thai: “โอกูระ”
  • Turkish: “Okura-mura”
  • Turkish: “Okura”
  • Turkish: “Ōkura”
  • Ukrainian: “Окура”
  • Uzbek: “Ōkura, Yamagata”
  • Uzbek: “Ōkura”

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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 “Okura”. Photo: Suz-b, CC BY-SA 3.0.