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Yamagata

Sakata

Sakata is a city in . Due to its location on the Sea of Japan, the city has a large fishing industry. There is a fish market and many seafood restaurants, where one can enjoy freshly caught fish from the Sea of Japan.
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  • Type: City with 100,000 residents
  • Description: city in Yamagata prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Sakata, Yamagata”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sakata Station and Homma Museum.

Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station in the city of Sakata, Yamagata, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company.

Museum
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of Art opened in Sakata, , Japan, in 1947.

Museum
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The was opened in 1983 in Sakata, Yamagata, the birthplace of the photographer Ken Domon. On the occasion of becoming the first honorary citizen of Sakata in 1974, Domon donated his entire collection of works to the town.

Sakata

Latitude
38.9147° or 38° 54′ 53″ north
Longitude
139.8364° or 139° 50′ 11″ east
Population
100,000
IATA airport code
SYO
United Nations Location Code
JP SKT
Open location code
8QCXWR7P+VH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752206814
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1853140
Wiki­data ID
Q504690
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sakata” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ساكاتا، ياماغاتا”
  • Arabic: “ساكاتا”
  • Armenian: “Սակատա”
  • Asturian: “Sakata”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sakata”
  • Bashkir: “Саката (ҡала)”
  • Bashkir: “Саката”
  • Belarusian: “Саката”
  • Bengali: “সাকাতা”
  • Catalan: “Sakata”
  • Cebuano: “Sakata Shi”
  • Cebuano: “Sakata”
  • Chechen: “Саката (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Саката”
  • Chinese: “Sakata-chhī”
  • Chinese: “酒田”
  • Chinese: “酒田市”
  • Czech: “Sakata”
  • Danish: “Sakata”
  • Dutch: “Sakata”
  • Esperanto: “Sakata”
  • Estonian: “Sakata”
  • Finnish: “Sakata”
  • French: “Sakata”
  • Galician: “Sakata”
  • German: “Sakata”
  • Greek: “Σακάτα”
  • Gujarati: “સકતા”
  • Hindi: “सकाता”
  • Hungarian: “Szakata”
  • Indonesian: “Sakata, Yamagata”
  • Indonesian: “Sakata”
  • Irish: “Sakata”
  • Italian: “Sakata”
  • Japanese: “Sakata-shi”
  • Japanese: “さかたし”
  • Japanese: “酒田”
  • Japanese: “酒田市”
  • Japanese: “酒田町”
  • Kannada: “ಸಕಟಾ”
  • Korean: “사카타 시”
  • Korean: “사카타시”
  • Latvian: “Sakata”
  • Lingala: “Sakata”
  • Literary Chinese: “酒田市”
  • Lithuanian: “Sakata”
  • Malay: “Sakata”
  • Marathi: “साकाता”
  • Mazanderani: “ساکاتا، یاماگاتا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sakata-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sakata”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sakata”
  • Norwegian: “Sakata”
  • Persian: “ساکاتا، یاماگاتا”
  • Polish: “Sakata”
  • Portuguese: “Sakata”
  • Romanian: “Sakata”
  • Russian: “Саката”
  • Serbian: “Sakata”
  • Serbian: “Саката”
  • Serbian: “酒田市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sakata”
  • Silesian: “Sakata”
  • Sinhala: “සකටා”
  • Slovak: “Sakata”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ساکاتا، یاماقاتا”
  • Spanish: “Sakata”
  • Swedish: “Sakata”
  • Tagalog: “Sakata, Yamagata”
  • Tagalog: “Sakata”
  • Tajik: “Sakata”
  • Tajik: “Саката”
  • Tamil: “சகாடா”
  • Tatar: “Саката”
  • Telugu: “సకాత”
  • Thai: “ซากาตะ”
  • Turkish: “Sakata”
  • Ukrainian: “Саката”
  • Urdu: “سکھاتا”
  • Uzbek: “Sakata, Yamagata”
  • Uzbek: “Sakata”
  • Venetian: “Sakata”
  • Vietnamese: “Sakata, Yamagata”
  • Vietnamese: “Sakata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sakata, Yamagata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sakata”
  • Welsh: “Sakata-shi”
  • Yue Chinese: “酒田”

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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 “Sakata”. Photo: kiwa dokokano, CC BY-SA 3.0.