Shimoda
Shimoda is a city on the Izu Peninsula in Japan. It is famous as the place where Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy arrived with his "black ships" in 1853.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Izukyushimoda and Shimoda Sea Aquarium.
Izukyushimoda
Railway station
Photo: Drivephotographer, CC0.
Izukyū-Shimoda Station is a railway station in the city of Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Izukyū Corporation.
Shimoda Sea Aquarium
Public aquarium
Photo: キッコーマソ, Public domain.
Shimoda Sea Aquarium is a public aquarium.
Gyokusenji
Buddhist temple
Photo: Geomr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gyokusen-ji is a Buddhist temple located in the city of Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is noteworthy in that it served as the first American consulate in Japan. The temple and its grounds were designated as a National Historic Site of Japan in 1951.
Shimoda
- Categories: city of Japan, port city, and locality
- Location: Shimoda, Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.6795° or 34° 40′ 46″ northLongitude
138.9454° or 138° 56′ 43″ eastPopulation
22,000Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP SMDOpen location code
8Q6WMWHW+R5OpenStreetMap ID
node 2377927287OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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”
- 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: “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”
- Vietnamese: “Shimoda, Shizuoka”
- Vietnamese: “Shimoda”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shimoda, Shizuoka”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shimoda”
- Yue Chinese: “下田”
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