Sakura
Sakura is a city in the Chiba prefecture known for its large history museum and yearly tulip festival. Due to its train connections, it serves as a bedroom community for Chiba, Tokyo and Narita Airport.
Places of Interest
Highlights: National Museum of Japanese History and Sakura Castle.
Sakura Castle
Castle
Photo: EXECUTOR, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shisui and Yamanosaki.
Sakura
- Categories: city of Japan, big city, and locality
- Location: Sakura Shi, Chiba, Kanto, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.7235° or 35° 43′ 25″ north
Longitude
140.224° or 140° 13′ 27″ east
Population
172,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
UN/LOCODE
JP SKX
Open location code
8R72P6FF+9J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Sakura” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Sakura”
- Arabic: “ساكورا، تشيبا”
- Arabic: “ساكورا”
- Asturian: “Sakura”
- Belarusian: “Сакура”
- Bengali: “সাঁকুরা”
- Catalan: “Sakura”
- Cebuano: “Sakura”
- Chechen: “Сакура”
- Chinese: “佐仓市”
- Chinese: “佐倉市”
- Czech: “Sakura”
- Danish: “Sakura”
- Dutch: “Sakura”
- Esperanto: “Sakura”
- Estonian: “Sakura”
- Finnish: “Sakura”
- French: “Sakura”
- Galician: “Sakura, Chiba”
- Galician: “Sakura”
- German: “Sakura”
- Greek: “Σακούρα”
- Gujarati: “સાકુરા”
- Hindi: “साकुरा”
- Hungarian: “Szakura”
- Indonesian: “Sakura, Chiba”
- Indonesian: “Sakura”
- Irish: “Sakura”
- Italian: “Sakura”
- Japanese: “Sakura-shi”
- Japanese: “さくらし”
- Japanese: “佐倉”
- Japanese: “佐倉市”
- Kannada: “ಸಕುರಾ”
- Korean: “사쿠라 시”
- Korean: “사쿠라시”
- Latvian: “Sakura”
- Literary Chinese: “佐倉市”
- Lithuanian: “Sakura”
- Malagasy: “Sakura”
- Malay: “Sakura”
- Marathi: “सकुरा”
- Mazanderani: “ساکورا، چیبا”
- Mazanderani: “ساکورا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sakura-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sakura”
- Norwegian: “Sakura”
- Persian: “ساکورا، چیبا”
- Persian: “ساکورا”
- Polish: “Sakura”
- Portuguese: “Sakura”
- Romanian: “Sakura, Chiba”
- Romanian: “Sakura”
- Russian: “Сакура”
- Sardinian: “Sakura”
- Serbian: “Sakura”
- Serbian: “Сакура”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sakura, Chiba”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sakura”
- Sinhala: “සකුරා”
- Slovak: “Sakura”
- Slovenian: “Sakura”
- South Azerbaijani: “ساکورا، چیبا”
- South Azerbaijani: “ساکورا”
- Spanish: “Sakura”
- Swahili: “Sakura, Chiba”
- Swahili: “Sakura”
- Swedish: “Sakura, Chiba”
- Swedish: “Sakura”
- Tagalog: “Sakura, Chiba”
- Tagalog: “Sakura”
- Tamil: “சக்கரா”
- Tatar: “Сакура”
- Telugu: “సకురా”
- Thai: “ซะกุระ”
- Thai: “ซากูระ”
- Turkish: “Sakura, Chiba”
- Turkish: “Sakura”
- Ukrainian: “Сакура”
- Urdu: “ساکورا، چیبا”
- Urdu: “ساکورا”
- Venetian: “Sakura”
- Vietnamese: “Sakura, Chiba”
- Vietnamese: “Sakura”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sakura, Chiba”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sakura”
- Yue Chinese: “佐倉”
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Places to explore: 海隣寺町 and 田町.
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