Otaru

Otaru is a port city in , along the coast of the Sea of Japan. The city is near and it is a tourist destination for its food, its historical buildings and its shops.
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  • Type: City with 111,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hokkaido, Japan
  • Also known as: “Otaru (Hokkaido)”, “Отару Хоккайдо”, “Отару, Хоккайдо”, “오타루”, “小樽内”, and “小樽区”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Otaru City General Museum and Otaru City Library.

Museum
Photo: Twilight2640, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a museum located in Temiya 1-chome, Otaru, , , which features exhibits related to the history and nature of Hokkaido, transportation in the area, and science.

Library
Photo: Tobosha, Public domain.

Museum
Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.

Otaru

Latitude
43.1907° or 43° 11′ 27″ north
Longitude
140.9946° or 140° 59′ 41″ east
Population
111,000
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
IATA airport code
QOT
United Nations Location Code
JP OTR
Open location code
8RM25XRV+7R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3012162160
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2128574
Wiki­data 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: “小樽”
  • Chinese: “小樽市”
  • Czech: “Otaru”
  • Danish: “Otaru”
  • Dutch: “Otaru”
  • Esperanto: “Otaru”
  • Finnish: “Otaru”
  • French: “Otaru”
  • Galician: “Otaru”
  • German: “Otaru”
  • 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: “小樽市”
  • Kannada: “ಒಟರು”
  • Korean: “오타루 시”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “اوتارو”
  • Polish: “Otaru”
  • Portuguese: “Otaru”
  • Romanian: “Otaru”
  • Russian: “Отару”
  • Serbian: “Otaru”
  • Serbian: “Отару”
  • 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: “اوٹارو”
  • Urdu: “وتارو”
  • Venetian: “Otaru”
  • Vietnamese: “Otaru”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Otaru, Hokkaidō”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Otaru”
  • Wu Chinese: “小樽市”
  • Yue Chinese: “小樽”
  • Yue Chinese: “小樽市”
  • “Otaru-shi”

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