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Otsu

Ōtsu is the capital of . Enryaku-ji, a Tendai monastery located on Mount Hiei overlooking , is the headquarters of the Tendai sect and one of the most significant monasteries in Japanese history.
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  • Type: City with 341,000 residents
  • Description: city of Shiga Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Ōtsu”, “Otsu City”, “Otsu-shi”, “Ōtsu-shi”, “Ōtsushi”, and “Ōtu”
  • Neighbors: , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ōtsu and Mii-dera.

Railway station
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Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of , , Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company.

Buddhist temple
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Nagara-san Onjo-ji, also known as just Onjo-ji, or , is a Buddhist temple in Japan located at the foot of , in the city of Ōtsu in .

Railway station
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is a junction passenger railway station located in the city of Ōtsu, , , operated by the private railway company Keihan Electric Railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yamashina-ku.

Suburb
Photo: Asturio Cantabrio, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yamashina is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in , . It lies in the southeastern part of the city, and is one stop away from Kyoto Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line.

Otsu

Latitude
35.0178° or 35° 1′ 4″ north
Longitude
135.8548° or 135° 51′ 17″ east
Population
341,000
Elevation
131 metres (430 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP OTU
Open location code
8Q7Q2V93+4W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 541402993
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1853574
Wiki­data ID
Q202907
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Otsu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوتسو”
  • Armenian: “Օցու”
  • Asturian: “Ōtsu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Otsu”
  • Balinese: “Ōtsu, Shiga”
  • Basque: “Ōtsu”
  • Belarusian: “Оцу”
  • Bengali: “ওৎসু”
  • Bulgarian: “Оцу”
  • Catalan: “Ōtsu”
  • Cebuano: “Ōtsu-shi (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Ōtsu-shi (kapital sa prepektura)”
  • Cebuano: “Ōtsu-shi”
  • Chechen: “Оцу”
  • Chinese: “Ôtu-chhī”
  • Chinese: “大津”
  • Chinese: “大津市”
  • Croatian: “Otsu”
  • Czech: “Ócu”
  • Danish: “Otsu”
  • Dutch: “Otsu”
  • Dutch: “Ōtsu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوتسو, شيجا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوتسو”
  • Esperanto: “Ocu”
  • Esperanto: “Oocu”
  • Esperanto: “Ootsu”
  • Esperanto: “Otsu”
  • Esperanto: “Ōtsu”
  • Estonian: “Otsu”
  • Estonian: “Ōtsu”
  • Finnish: “Otsu”
  • Finnish: “Ōtsu”
  • French: “Omikyō”
  • French: “Ōtsu-shi”
  • French: “Ōtsu”
  • Galician: “Ōtsu”
  • German: “Otsu”
  • German: “Ōtsu”
  • Greek: “Ότσου”
  • Gujarati: “ઓટ્સુ”
  • Hebrew: “אוצו”
  • Hindi: “ओत्सु”
  • Hungarian: “Ócu”
  • Indonesian: “Ōtsu, Shiga”
  • Indonesian: “Ōtsu”
  • Irish: “Ōtsu”
  • Italian: “Otsu”
  • Italian: “Ōtsu”
  • Japanese: “Ōtsu-shi”
  • Japanese: “おおつ”
  • Japanese: “オオツ”
  • Japanese: “おおつし”
  • Japanese: “オオツシ”
  • Japanese: “大津”
  • Japanese: “大津市”
  • Japanese: “大津町”
  • Kannada: “ಓಟ್ಸ್ಸು”
  • Kazakh: “Оцу”
  • Kirghiz: “Оцу”
  • Korean: “오쓰 시”
  • Korean: “오쓰”
  • Korean: “오쓰시”
  • Korean: “오츠 시”
  • Latvian: “Ocu”
  • Literary Chinese: “大津市”
  • Lithuanian: “Ocu”
  • Lithuanian: “Ōcu”
  • Lithuanian: “Otsu”
  • Lithuanian: “Ōtsu”
  • Malagasy: “Ōtsu”
  • Malay: “Otsu”
  • Marathi: “इट्सू”
  • Mazanderani: “اتسو، شیگا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ōtsu-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Otsu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ōtsu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ôtu-chhi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ôtu-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ôtu”
  • Mongolian: “Оцү”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ōtsu”
  • Norwegian: “Ōtsu”
  • Persian: “اتسو، شیگا”
  • Persian: “اتسو”
  • Persian: “اوتسو، شیگا”
  • Polish: “Otsu”
  • Polish: “Ōtsu”
  • Portuguese: “Otsu”
  • Portuguese: “Ōtsu”
  • Romanian: “Otsu”
  • Romanian: “Ōtsu”
  • Russian: “Оцу Сига”
  • Russian: “Оцу, Сига”
  • Russian: “Оцу”
  • Russian: “Сига Оцу”
  • Sardinian: “Ōtsu”
  • Scots: “Ōtsu”
  • Serbian: “Ocu”
  • Serbian: “Otsu”
  • Serbian: “Оцу”
  • Serbian: “大津市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Otsu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ōtsu”
  • Sinhala: “ඕට්සු”
  • Slovenian: “Ocu”
  • Slovenian: “Ōtsu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اتسو، شیقا”
  • Spanish: “O tsu”
  • Spanish: “O-tsu”
  • Spanish: “Ohtsu”
  • Spanish: “Otsu Shiga”
  • Spanish: “Ōtsu Shiga”
  • Spanish: “Otsu”
  • Spanish: “Ōtsu”
  • Swahili: “Otsu, Shiga”
  • Swahili: “Otsu”
  • Swedish: “Otsu”
  • Swedish: “Ōtsu”
  • Tagalog: “Otsu”
  • Tagalog: “Ōtsu”
  • Tajik: “Otsu”
  • Tajik: “Отсу”
  • Tamil: “ஓட்சு”
  • Tatar: “Отсу”
  • Tatar: “Оцу”
  • Telugu: “ఓట్సు”
  • Thai: “โอตสึ”
  • Thai: “โอสึ”
  • Tumbuka: “Ōtsu”
  • Turkish: “Ōtsu”
  • Ukrainian: “Оцу”
  • Urdu: “اتسو، شیگا”
  • Venetian: “Ōtsu”
  • Vietnamese: “Ōtsu, Shiga”
  • Vietnamese: “Ōtsu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Otsu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ōtsu”
  • Welsh: “Ōtsu”
  • Wu Chinese: “大津市”
  • Yue Chinese: “大津”
  • “Ōtsu”
  • “Ōtsu-shi”

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