Shimoda

Shimoda is a city on the in . It is famous as the place where Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy arrived with his "black ships" in 1853.
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  • Type: City with 22,000 residents
  • Description: city in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Shimoda, Shizuoka” and “Simoda”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Izukyushimoda and Shimoda Ropeway.

Railway station
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Izukyū-Shimoda Station is a railway station in the city of Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Izukyū Corporation.

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The is the name of a aerial lift line in Shimoda, , as well as its operator. The company is a subsidiary of Izukyū Corporation, a Tokyu Group company.

Public aquarium
Photo: キッコーマソ, Public domain.
is a public aquarium.

Shimoda

Latitude
34.6795° or 34° 40′ 46″ north
Longitude
138.9454° or 138° 56′ 43″ east
Population
22,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Inception
January 1st, 1971
United Nations Location Code
JP SMD
Open location code
8Q6WMWHW+R5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2377927287
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1852357
Wiki­data ID
Q653402
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Shimoda” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Shimoda”
  • Arabic: “شيمودا، شيزوكا”
  • Arabic: “شيمودا”
  • Armenian: “Սիմոդա”
  • Asturian: “Shimoda”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimoda”
  • Bengali: “শিমোদা”
  • Bulgarian: “Шимода”
  • Catalan: “Shimoda”
  • Cebuano: “Shimoda”
  • Chechen: “Симода”
  • Chinese: “Simoda-chhī”
  • Chinese: “下田”
  • Chinese: “下田市”
  • Czech: “Šimoda”
  • Danish: “Shimoda”
  • Dutch: “Shimoda”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيمودا”
  • Esperanto: “Shimoda”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝimoda”
  • Estonian: “Shimoda”
  • Finnish: “Shimoda”
  • French: “Shimoda-shi”
  • French: “Shimoda”
  • Galician: “Shimoda”
  • German: “Shimoda”
  • Greek: “Σιμόντα”
  • Gujarati: “શિમોડા”
  • Hindi: “शिमोदा”
  • Hungarian: “Simoda”
  • Indonesian: “Shimoda, Shizuoka”
  • Indonesian: “Shimoda”
  • Irish: “Shimoda”
  • Italian: “Shimoda”
  • Japanese: “Shimoda-shi”
  • Japanese: “しもだし”
  • Japanese: “下田”
  • Japanese: “下田市”
  • Japanese: “下田町”
  • Kannada: “ಶಿಮೊಡಾ”
  • Korean: “시모다 시”
  • Korean: “시모다”
  • Korean: “시모다시”
  • Latvian: “Šimoda”
  • Literary Chinese: “下田市”
  • Lithuanian: “Šimoda”
  • Malay: “Shimoda”
  • Marathi: “शिमोडा”
  • Mazanderani: “شیمودا، شیزوئوکا”
  • Mazanderani: “شیمودا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Simoda-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shimoda”
  • Norwegian: “Shimoda”
  • Persian: “شیمودا، شیزوئوکا”
  • Persian: “شیمودا”
  • Polish: “Shimoda”
  • Portuguese: “Shimoda”
  • Romanian: “Shimoda”
  • Russian: “Симода”
  • Sinhala: “ශිමොඩා”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیمودا، شیزوئوکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیمودا”
  • Spanish: “Shimoda”
  • Swedish: “Shimoda, Shizuoka”
  • Swedish: “Shimoda”
  • Tagalog: “Shimoda”
  • Tagalog: “Syimoda”
  • Tajik: “Şimoda”
  • Tajik: “Шимода”
  • Tamil: “ஷிமோடா”
  • Tatar: “Симода”
  • Telugu: “షిమోద”
  • Thai: “ชิโมดะ”
  • Turkish: “Shimoda”
  • Turkish: “Şimoda”
  • Ukrainian: “Сімода”
  • Ukrainian: “Шімода”
  • Urdu: “شیمودا”
  • Urdu: “شیموڈا، شیزوکا”
  • Vietnamese: “Shimoda, Shizuoka”
  • Vietnamese: “Shimoda”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shimoda, Shizuoka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shimoda”
  • Yue Chinese: “下田”

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