Shimonoseki
Shimonoseki has been at the center of Japanese history for centuries, but it's best known to culinary daredevils as the home of fugu, a pufferfish as cute looking as it is potentially lethal.
Photo: Sanjo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Shimonoseki
Railway station
Shimonoseki Station is a railway station on the Sanyo Main Line, operated by West Japan Railway Company in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Akama Shrine
Shinto shrine
Akama Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Photo: 설총, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Localities in the Area
Shimonoseki
- Type: City
- Description: city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
- Category: core city of Japan
- Location: Yamaguchi, Chugoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- Neighbors: Kitakyushu, Mine and Sanyo-Onoda
Latitude 33.9577° or 33° 57' 27.8" north | Longitude 130.9415° or 130° 56' 29.6" east |
Population 263,000 | United Nations Location Code JP SHS |
OpenStreetMap ID node 697538044 | GeoNames ID 1852225 |
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Shimonoseki
- Arabic: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi
- Arabic: شيمونوسكي
- Arabic: شيمونوسكي، ياماغوتشي
- Arabic: شيمونوسيكي
- Arabic: شيمونوسيكي، ياماغوتشي
- Armenian: Սիմոնոսեկի
- Azerbaijani: Şimonoseki
- Basque: Shimonoseki
- Belarusian: Сіманасекі
- Bengali: সিমোনোসেকি
- Bulgarian: Шимоносеки
- Catalan: Shimonoseki
- Cebuano: Shimonoseki
- Chechen: Симоносеки
- Chinese: Simonoseki-chhī
- Chinese: 下关
- Chinese: 下关市
- Chinese: 下關
- Chinese: 下關市
- Chinese: 赤間關
- Chinese: 馬關
- Czech: Šimonoseki
- Danish: Shimonoseki
- Dutch: Shimonoseki
- Egyptian Arabic: شيمونوسيكى، ياماجوتشى
- Esperanto: Ŝimonoseki
- Estonian: Akamagaseki
- Estonian: Shimonoseki
- Finnish: Shimonoseki
- French: Shimonoseki
- Galician: Shimonoseki
- German: Akamagaseki
- German: Bakan
- German: Shimonoseki
- Greek: Σιμονοσέκι
- Gujarati: શિમોનોઝ્કી
- Hakka Chinese: Shimonoseki
- Hausa: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi
- Hebrew: שימונוסקי
- Hindi: शिमोनोसेकि
- Indonesian: Shimonoseki
- Irish: Shimonoseki
- Italian: Shimonoseki
- Japanese: Shimonoseki-shi
- Japanese: しものせきし
- Japanese: 下関市
- Japanese: 赤間関
- Japanese: 赤間関区
- Japanese: 赤間関市
- Japanese: 赤間關市
- Japanese: 赤馬関
- Japanese: 馬関
- Kannada: ಷಿಮೋನೋಸ್ಕಿ
- Korean: 산구현 하관시
- Korean: 시모노세키
- Korean: 시모노세키 시
- Korean: 시모노세키시
- Korean: 야마구치현 시모노세키시
- Korean: 야마구치 현 시모노세키 시
- Korean: 하관시
- Latvian: Šimonoseki
- Literary Chinese: 下關市
- Lithuanian: Simonesekis
- Macedo-Romanian: Shimonoseki
- Malagasy: Shimonoseki
- Malay: Shimonoseki
- Marathi: शिमोनोजी
- Mazanderani: شیمونوسکی، یاماگوچی
- Min Nan Chinese: Simonoseki-chhī
- Norwegian: Shimonoseki
- Norwegian Bokmål: Shimonoseki
- Persian: شیمونوسکی
- Persian: شیمونوسکی، یاماگوچی
- Polish: Shimonoseki
- Portuguese: Shimonoseki
- Romanian: Shimonoseki
- Russian: Симоносеки
- Russian: Симоносэки
- Scots: Shimonoseki
- Serbian: Šimonoseki
- Serbian: Шимоносеки
- Serbian: 下関市
- Serbo-Croatian: Shimonoseki
- Serbo-Croatian: Šimonoseki
- Sinhala: ශිමොනොසෙකි
- South Azerbaijani: شیمونوسکی، یاماقوچی
- Spanish: Shimonoseki
- Spanish: Shimonoseki Yamaguchi
- Swedish: Shimonoseki
- Tagalog: Shimonoseki
- Tagalog: Syimonoseki
- Tajik: Şimonoseki
- Tajik: Шимоносеки
- Tamil: ஷிமோனோசேக்கி
- Tatar: Симоносеки
- Tatar: Чимоносеки
- Telugu: షిమోనోసెకి
- Thai: ชิโมะโนะเซะกิ
- Thai: ชิโมโนเซกิ
- Tumbuka: Shimonoseki
- Turkish: Shimonoseki
- Turkish: Şimonoseki
- Ukrainian: Сімоносекі
- Ukrainian: Шімоносекі
- Urdu: شیمونوسیکی، یاماگوچی
- Vietnamese: Hạ Quan thị
- Vietnamese: Shimonoseki
- Waray (Philippines): Shimonoseki
- Welsh: Shimonoseki
- Wu Chinese: 下关市
- Yue Chinese: 下關
- Simonoseki
Other Places Named Shimonoseki
- Shimonoseki ShiYamaguchi, Japan
- ShimonosekiYamaguchi, Japan
- ShimonosekiRailway station, Yamaguchi, Japan
- Shimonoseki DistrictHarbor, Yamaguchi, Japan
- ShimonosekiRailway halt, Yamaguchi, Japan
In the Area
Localities
Landmarks
- Shimonoseki City HallTown hall
- 下関市消防局Fire station
- 下関市消防局中央消防署Fire station
- 下関市保健所Public building
- 旧秋田商会ビルScenic viewpoint
- Shimonoseki Nabechō Post OfficePost office
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