Japan
Chugoku
Yamaguchi

Shimonoseki

Shimonoseki is a city in and the westernmost municipality on Honshu. The city 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.
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  • Type: City with 255,000 residents
  • Description: city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Simonoseki”
  • Neighbors: , , and
Photo: そらみみ, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shimonoseki and Kanmon Bridge.

Railway station
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Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of , , . It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company. The station is a freight depot of the Japan Freight Railway Company.

Bridge
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The is a suspension bridge crossing the , a stretch of water separating two of 's four main islands. On the Honshū side of the bridge is Shimonoseki and on the Kyūshū side is , whose former city and present ward, Moji, gave the strait its mon.

Park
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is a Shinto shrine in Shimonoseki, , . It is dedicated to the child Emperor Antoku, who died in the Battle of Dan-no-ura, which occurred nearby in 1185.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Moji-ku and Karato.

Suburb
is a Japanese ward of the city of in . It is the former city of Moji which was one of five merged to create Kitakyūshū in 1963.

Quarter
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is the downtown area of the city of Shimonoseki, . Located in , it is known for its fish market.

Shimonoseki

Latitude
33.9577° or 33° 57′ 28″ north
Longitude
130.9415° or 130° 56′ 30″ east
Population
255,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP SHS
Open location code
8Q5GXW5R+3J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 697538044
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1852225
Wiki­data ID
Q203308
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Shimonoseki” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Arabic: “شيمونوسكي، ياماغوتشي”
  • Arabic: “شيمونوسكي”
  • Arabic: “شيمونوسيكي، ياماغوتشي”
  • Arabic: “شيمونوسيكي”
  • Armenian: “Սիմոնոսեկի”
  • Asturian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimonoseki”
  • Basque: “Shimonoseki”
  • Belarusian: “Сіманасекі”
  • Belarusian: “Сіманасэкі”
  • 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”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيمونوسيكى”
  • Esperanto: “Shimonoseki”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝimonoseki”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝimonoseko”
  • Estonian: “Akamagaseki”
  • Estonian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Finnish: “Shimonoseki”
  • French: “Shimonoseki”
  • Galician: “Shimonoseki”
  • German: “Akamagaseki”
  • German: “Bakan”
  • German: “Shimonoseki”
  • Greek: “Σιμονοσέκι”
  • Gujarati: “શિમોનોઝ્કી”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Shimonoseki”
  • Hebrew: “שימונוסקי”
  • Hindi: “शिमोनोसेकि”
  • Hungarian: “Simonoszeki”
  • Indonesian: “Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi”
  • Indonesian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Irish: “Shimonoseki”
  • Italian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Japanese: “Shimonoseki-shi”
  • Japanese: “しものせきし”
  • Japanese: “下関市”
  • Japanese: “西の浪華”
  • 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 시”
  • Korean: “시모노세키”
  • Korean: “시모노세키시”
  • Korean: “야마구치 현 시모노세키 시”
  • Korean: “야마구치현 시모노세키시”
  • Korean: “하관시”
  • Latvian: “Šimonoseki”
  • Literary Chinese: “下關市”
  • Lithuanian: “Simonesekis”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Malagasy: “Shimonoseki”
  • Malay: “Shimonoseki”
  • Maltese: “Shimonoseki”
  • Marathi: “शिमोनोजी”
  • Mazanderani: “شیمونوسکی، یاماگوچی”
  • Mazanderani: “شیمونوسکی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Simonoseki-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shimonoseki”
  • Norwegian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Persian: “شیمونوسکی، یاماگوچی”
  • Persian: “شیمونوسکی”
  • Polish: “Shimonoseki”
  • Portuguese: “Shimonoseki”
  • Romanian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Russian: “Симоносеки”
  • Russian: “Симоносэки”
  • Sardinian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Scots: “Shimonoseki”
  • Serbian: “Šimonoseki”
  • Serbian: “Шимоносеки”
  • Serbian: “下関市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šimonoseki”
  • Silesian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Sinhala: “ශිමොනොසෙකි”
  • Slovenian: “Šimonoseki”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیمونوسکی، یاماقوچی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیمونوسکی”
  • Spanish: “Shimonoseki Yamaguchi”
  • Spanish: “Shimonoseki”
  • Swedish: “Shimonoseki”
  • Tagalog: “Shimonoseki”
  • Tagalog: “Syimonoseki”
  • Tajik: “Şimonoseki”
  • Tajik: “Шимоносеки”
  • Tamil: “ஷிமோனோசேக்கி”
  • Tatar: “Симоносеки”
  • Tatar: “Чимоносеки”
  • Telugu: “షిమోనోసెకి”
  • Thai: “ชิโมโนเซกิ”
  • Thai: “ชิโมะโนะเซะกิ”
  • Tumbuka: “Shimonoseki”
  • Turkish: “Shimonoseki”
  • Turkish: “Şimonoseki”
  • Ukrainian: “Сімоносекі”
  • Ukrainian: “Шімоносекі”
  • Urdu: “شیمونوسیکی، یاماگوچی”
  • Urdu: “شیمونوسیکی”
  • Venetian: “Shimonoseki”
  • Vietnamese: “Hạ Quan thị”
  • Vietnamese: “Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi”
  • Vietnamese: “Shimonoseki”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shimonoseki”
  • Welsh: “Shimonoseki”
  • Wu Chinese: “下关市”
  • Yue Chinese: “下關”

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