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Sakai

Sakai is a city located in , Japan. It has been one of the largest and most important seaports of Japan since the medieval era. Sakai is known for its kofun, keyhole-shaped burial mounds dating from the fifth century.
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  • Type: City with 839,000 residents
  • Description: second largest and populated city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Sakai-ku” and “Sakai-shi”
  • Neighbors:
Photo: Nryate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Daisen Kofun and Sakai.

Archaeological site
Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.
The Mozu Tombs are a group of kofun —megalithic tombs—in Sakai, , . Originally consisting of more than 100 tombs, fewer than 50% of the key-hole, round, and rectangular tombs remain.

Railway station
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Station is a passenger railway station located in , , , Japan, operated by the private railway operator Nankai Electric Railway. It has the station number "NK11".

Railway station
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is a passenger railway station in located in , , , operated by West Japan Railway Company.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kita-ku and Sakai Ward.

Suburb
Photo: 田英, Public domain.
is a ward of the city of Sakai in , . The ward has an area of 15.58 km2 and a population of 154,846. The population density is 9,945 per km2.

Suburb
Photo: Sakai Yayoi, CC0.
Sakai-ku is a ward of the city of Sakai in , Japan. The ward has an area of 23.69 km2 and a population of 147,413. The population density is 6,223 per square kilometer.

Suburb
Photo: Bakkai, CC BY 3.0.
is one of 24 wards of , . It is located on the southern part of the Uemachi Plateau, in the southernmost part of Osaka City, and is separated from Sakai City's Sakai-ku and Kita-ku by the Yamato River.

Sakai

Latitude
34.5737° or 34° 34′ 25″ north
Longitude
135.4829° or 135° 28′ 58″ east
Population
839,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Inception
April 1st, 1889
Open location code
8Q6QHFFM+F5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 551364486
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
7391696
Wiki­data ID
Q193428
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sakai” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ساكاي، أوساكا”
  • Arabic: “ساكاي”
  • Armenian: “Սակաի”
  • Asturian: “Sakai”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sakay”
  • Balinese: “Sakai, Osaka”
  • Basque: “Sakai”
  • Belarusian: “Сакаі (Осака)”
  • Belarusian: “Сакаі”
  • Bengali: “সাঁকাই শহর”
  • Breton: “Sakai”
  • Bulgarian: “Сакаи”
  • Bulgarian: “Сакай”
  • Catalan: “Sakai”
  • Cebuano: “Sakai Ku”
  • Cebuano: “Sakai Shi”
  • Central Kurdish: “ساکای”
  • Chechen: “Сакаи”
  • Chinese: “Sakai-chhī”
  • Chinese: “堺”
  • Chinese: “堺市”
  • Czech: “Sakai”
  • Danish: “Sakai”
  • Dutch: “Sakai”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساكاى”
  • Esperanto: “Sakai”
  • Esperanto: “Sakaj”
  • Estonian: “Sakai”
  • Finnish: “Sakai”
  • French: “Sakai-shi”
  • French: “Sakai”
  • Galician: “Sakai, Osaka”
  • Galician: “Sakai”
  • German: “Sakai”
  • Greek: “Σακάι”
  • Gujarati: “સાકાઇ શહેર”
  • Hebrew: “סאקאי”
  • Hindi: “सकाई सिटी”
  • Hungarian: “Szakai”
  • Indonesian: “Sakai, Osaka”
  • Indonesian: “Sakai”
  • Irish: “Sakai”
  • Italian: “Sakai”
  • Japanese: “Sakai-shi”
  • Japanese: “さかいく”
  • Japanese: “サカイク”
  • Japanese: “さかいし”
  • Japanese: “堺区”
  • Japanese: “堺市”
  • Japanese: “堺市堺区”
  • Japanese: “境”
  • Japanese: “左海”
  • Kannada: “ಸಕೈ ನಗರ”
  • Kikuyu: “Sakai”
  • Korean: “사카이시”
  • Latin: “Sacaia”
  • Latin: “Sacaium”
  • Latvian: “Sakai Siti”
  • Literary Chinese: “堺市”
  • Lithuanian: “Sakajus”
  • Malagasy: “Sakai”
  • Malay: “Sakai”
  • Marathi: “सकय शहर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sakai-chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Сакай”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sakai”
  • Norwegian: “Sakai”
  • Ossetian: “Сакаи”
  • Persian: “ساکای، اوساکا”
  • Persian: “ساکای”
  • Persian: “ساکایی”
  • Polish: “Sakai”
  • Portuguese: “Sakai”
  • Romanian: “Sakai, Osaka”
  • Romanian: “Sakai”
  • Russian: “Сакаи”
  • Russian: “Сакай”
  • Scots: “Sakai”
  • Serbian: “Sakai”
  • Serbian: “Sakaj”
  • Serbian: “Сакаи”
  • Serbian: “Сакај”
  • Serbian: “堺市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sakai, Osaka”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sakai”
  • Sinhala: “සකයි නගරය”
  • Slovak: “Sakai”
  • Slovenian: “Sakai”
  • Spanish: “Sakai Osaka”
  • Spanish: “Sakai”
  • Sundanese: “Sakai, Osaka”
  • Sundanese: “Sakai”
  • Swedish: “Sakai”
  • Tagalog: “Sakai, Osaka”
  • Tagalog: “Sakai”
  • Tajik: “Sakai”
  • Tajik: “Сакаи”
  • Tamil: “சாக்கை நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Сакаи”
  • Tatar: “Сакай”
  • Telugu: “సకాయ్ నగరం”
  • Thai: “ซาไก”
  • Tumbuka: “Sakai”
  • Turkish: “Sakai”
  • Ukrainian: “Сакаї”
  • Ukrainian: “Сакай”
  • Urdu: “ساکائی، اوساکا”
  • Urdu: “ساکائی”
  • Uzbek: “Sakai”
  • Venetian: “Sakai”
  • Vietnamese: “Sakai”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Sakai”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sakai”
  • Welsh: “Sakai”
  • Wu Chinese: “堺市”
  • Yakut: “Сакаи”
  • Yue Chinese: “堺市”

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