Otaru
Otaru is a port city in Hokkaido, Japan along the coast of the Sea of Japan. The city is near Sapporo and it is a tourist destination for its food, its historical buildings and its shops.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Soica2001, Public domain.
Photo: Soica2001, Public domain.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Otaru City General Museum and Otaru City Library.
Otaru City General Museum
Museum
Photo: Twilight2640, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Otaru City General Museum is a museum located in Temiya 1-chome, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan, which features exhibits related to the history and nature of Hokkaido, transportation in the area, and science.
Otaru
- Categories: city of Japan, big city, and locality
- Location: Central Circuit, Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
43.1907° or 43° 11′ 27″ northLongitude
140.9946° or 140° 59′ 41″ eastPopulation
111,000Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)IATA airport code
QOTUnited Nations Location Code
JP OTROpen location code
8RM25XRV+7ROpenStreetMap ID
node 3012162160OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2128574Wikidata ID
Q242108
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Otaru” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوتارو، هوكايدو”
- Arabic: “أوتارو”
- Armenian: “Օտարու”
- Asturian: “Otaru”
- Azerbaijani: “Otaru”
- Bashkir: “Отару”
- Basque: “Otaru”
- Belarusian: “Атару”
- Bengali: “ওঁতারু”
- Bulgarian: “Отару”
- Catalan: “Otaru”
- Cebuano: “Otaru-shi”
- Chechen: “Отару”
- Chinese: “Otaru-chhī”
- Chinese: “小樽”
- Chinese: “小樽市”
- Czech: “Otaru”
- Danish: “Otaru”
- Dutch: “Otaru”
- Esperanto: “Otaru”
- Finnish: “Otaru”
- French: “Otaru”
- Galician: “Otaru”
- German: “Otaru”
- German: “小樽市”
- Greek: “Οτάρου”
- Gujarati: “ઓટરૂ”
- Hebrew: “אוטארו”
- Hindi: “उतारू”
- Hungarian: “Otaru”
- Ido: “Otaru”
- Indonesian: “Otaru”
- Irish: “Otaru”
- Italian: “Otaru”
- Japanese: “Otaru-shi”
- Japanese: “おたるし”
- Japanese: “小樽”
- Japanese: “小樽内”
- Japanese: “小樽区”
- Japanese: “小樽市”
- Kannada: “ಒಟರು”
- Korean: “오타루 시”
- Korean: “오타루”
- Korean: “오타루시”
- Latvian: “Otaru”
- Literary Chinese: “小樽市”
- Lithuanian: “Otaru”
- Malagasy: “Otaru”
- Malay: “Otaru”
- Marathi: “ओतारू”
- Mazanderani: “اوتارو، هوکایدو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Otaru-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Отарү”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Otaru”
- Norwegian: “Otaru”
- Pampanga: “Otaru, Hokkaidō”
- Pampanga: “Otaru”
- Persian: “اوتارو، هوکایدو”
- Polish: “Otaru (Hokkaido)”
- Polish: “Otaru”
- Portuguese: “Otaru”
- Romanian: “Otaru”
- Russian: “Отару Хоккайдо”
- Russian: “Отару, Хоккайдо”
- Russian: “Отару”
- Serbian: “Otaru”
- Serbian: “Отару”
- Serbian: “小樽市”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otaru”
- Sinhala: “ඔටරු”
- Slovenian: “Otaru”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوتارو، هوکایدو”
- Spanish: “Otaru”
- Swedish: “Otaru”
- Tagalog: “Otaru”
- Tajik: “Otaru”
- Tajik: “Отару”
- Tamil: “ஒட்டாரு”
- Tatar: “Отару”
- Telugu: “వుతారు”
- Thai: “โอตารุ”
- Thai: “โอะตะรุ”
- Tumbuka: “Otaru”
- Turkish: “Otaru”
- Ukrainian: “Отару”
- Urdu: “وتارو”
- Venetian: “Otaru”
- Vietnamese: “Otaru”
- Waray (Philippines): “Otaru, Hokkaidō”
- Waray (Philippines): “Otaru”
- Wu Chinese: “小樽市”
- Yue Chinese: “小樽市”
- “Otaru-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 “Otaru”. Photo: Soica2001, Public domain.