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 include National Museum of Japanese History and Sakura Castle.
National Museum of Japanese History
Museum
The National Museum of Japanese History, commonly known in Japanese as Rekihaku, is a history museum in Sakura, Chiba, Japan. The museum was founded in 1981 as an inter-university research consortium, and opened in 1983.
Sakura Castle
Castle
Photo: EXECUTOR, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shisui and Yamanosaki.
Shisui
Town
Shisui is a town located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.As of 1 December 2020, the town had an estimated population of 20,660 in 9,888 households and a population density of 1,100 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 19.02 square kilometres.
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)
United Nations Location Code
JP SKX
Open location code
8R72P6FF+9J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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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: “Sakura-chhī”
- Chinese: “佐仓市”
- Chinese: “佐倉”
- Chinese: “佐倉市”
- Czech: “Sakura”
- Danish: “Sakura”
- Dutch: “Sakura”
- Esperanto: “Sakura-ŝi”
- 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”
- Serbian: “佐倉市”
- 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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