Otsu
Ōtsu is the capital of Shiga prefecture. Enryaku-ji, a Tendai monastery located on Mount Hiei overlooking Kyoto, is the headquarters of the Tendai sect and one of the most significant monasteries in Japanese history.
- Type: City with 341,000 residents
- Description: city of Shiga Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “O tsu”, “O-tsu”, “Ōcu”, “Ohtsu”, “Omikyō”, “Oocu”, “Ootsu”, “Ōtsu”, “Otsu City”, “Otsu Shiga”, “Ōtsu Shiga”, “Ōtsu-chhī”, “Otsu-shi”, “Ōtsu-shi (distrito)”, “Ōtsushi”, “Ôtu”, “Ōtu”, “Оцу Сига”, “Оцу, Сига”, “Сига Оцу”, “اتسو”, “오쓰”, “오츠 시”, and “大津町”
- Neighbors: Koka, Kusatsu, Kyoto, and Uji
Places of Interest
Highlights: Ōtsu and Keihan-otsukyo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yamashina-ku.
Yamashina-ku
Suburb
Otsu
- Categories: core city of Japan, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, satellite city, and locality
- Location: Shiga, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.0178° or 35° 1′ 4″ north
Longitude
135.8548° or 135° 51′ 17″ east
Population
341,000
Elevation
131 metres (430 feet)
Established
April 1st, 1933
UN/LOCODE
JP OTU
Open location code
8Q7Q2V93+4W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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 (kapital sa prepektura)”
- Cebuano: “Ōtsu-shi”
- Chechen: “Оцу”
- Chinese: “大津市”
- Croatian: “Otsu”
- Czech: “Ócu”
- Danish: “Otsu”
- Dutch: “Otsu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوتسو, شيجا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوتسو”
- Esperanto: “Ocu”
- Estonian: “Ōtsu”
- Finnish: “Ōtsu”
- French: “Ōtsu”
- Galician: “Ōtsu”
- German: “Ōtsu”
- Greek: “Ότσου”
- Gujarati: “ઓટ્સુ”
- Hebrew: “אוצו”
- Hindi: “ओत्सु”
- Hungarian: “Ócu”
- Indonesian: “Ōtsu, Shiga”
- Indonesian: “Ōtsu”
- Irish: “Ōtsu”
- 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”
- Kannada: “ಓಟ್ಸ್ಸು”
- Kazakh: “Оцу”
- Kirghiz: “Оцу”
- Korean: “오쓰 시”
- Korean: “오쓰시”
- Latvian: “Ocu”
- Literary Chinese: “大津市”
- Lithuanian: “Ocu”
- Malagasy: “Ōtsu”
- Malay: “Otsu”
- Marathi: “इट्सू”
- Mazanderani: “اتسو، شیگا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ôtu-chhi”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ôtu-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Оцү”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ōtsu”
- Norwegian: “Ōtsu”
- Persian: “اتسو، شیگا”
- Persian: “اوتسو”
- Polish: “Otsu”
- Polish: “Ōtsu”
- Portuguese: “Otsu”
- Portuguese: “Ōtsu”
- Romanian: “Otsu”
- Romanian: “Ōtsu”
- Russian: “Оцу”
- Sardinian: “Ōtsu”
- Scots: “Ōtsu”
- Serbian: “Ocu”
- Serbian: “Оцу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ōtsu”
- Sinhala: “ඕට්සු”
- Slovenian: “Ocu”
- South Azerbaijani: “اتسو، شیقا”
- Spanish: “Ōtsu”
- Swahili: “Otsu, Shiga”
- Swahili: “Otsu”
- Swedish: “Otsu”
- Swedish: “Ōtsu”
- 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): “Ōtsu”
- Welsh: “Ōtsu”
- Wu Chinese: “大津市”
- Yue Chinese: “大津”
- “Ōtsu-shi”
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