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Takaoka

Takaoka is a port city in , . While the prefecture's second-largest city, the main reason for travellers to visit is the ferry to and from , .
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  • Type: City with 174,000 residents
  • Description: city in Toyama Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Takaoka, Toyama” and “Takasha-shi”
  • Postal code: 933-8601
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Zuiryū Temple and AEON Mall.

Buddhist temple
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Zuiryū-ji is a Buddhist temple in Takaoka, , . The temple belongs to the Sōtō-school of Japanese Zen Buddhism.

Shopping center
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is a shopping center.

Railway station
Photo: Kahusi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Station is a railway station on the Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line in Takaoka, Toyama, Japan which is operated by the third-sector railway operating company Ainokaze Toyama Railway from March 2018.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oshima and Kanaya.

Hamlet
Ōshima was a town located in Imizu District, , . As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 10,108 and a density of 1,269.85 persons per km2.

Neighborhood
Photo: Isoyan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a neighborhood.

Neighborhood
was a town located in Imizu District, , . As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 12,419 and a density of 570.46 persons per km2.

Takaoka

Latitude
36.7362° or 36° 44′ 10″ north
Longitude
137.0187° or 137° 1′ 7″ east
Population
174,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Open location code
8Q8VP2P9+FF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 762306910
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1851028
Wiki­data ID
Q502988
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Takaoka” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تاكاوكا، توياما”
  • Arabic: “تاكاوكا”
  • Armenian: “Տակաոկա”
  • Asturian: “Takaoka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Takaoka”
  • Basque: “Takaoka”
  • Bengali: “টাকাওকা”
  • Burmese: “တခအိုခ၊ တိုယာမ”
  • Catalan: “Takaoka”
  • Cebuano: “Takaoka Shi”
  • Chechen: “Такаока”
  • Chinese: “Takaoka-chhī”
  • Chinese: “高冈市”
  • Chinese: “高岡”
  • Chinese: “高岡市”
  • Czech: “Takaoka”
  • Danish: “Takaoka”
  • Dutch: “Takaoka”
  • Esperanto: “Takaoka (urbo)”
  • Esperanto: “Takaoka”
  • Finnish: “Takaoka”
  • French: “Takaoka-shi”
  • French: “Takaoka”
  • Galician: “Takaoka”
  • German: “Takaoka”
  • Greek: “Τακαόκα”
  • Gujarati: “તકાઓકા”
  • Hebrew: “טקאוקה”
  • Hindi: “ताकाओका”
  • Hungarian: “Takaoka”
  • Indonesian: “Takaoka, Toyama”
  • Indonesian: “Takaoka”
  • Irish: “Takaoka”
  • Italian: “Takaoka”
  • Japanese: “Takaoka-shi”
  • Japanese: “たかおかし”
  • Japanese: “タカオカシ”
  • Japanese: “高岡”
  • Japanese: “高岡市”
  • Kannada: “ಟಾಕೋಕಾ”
  • Korean: “다카오카시”
  • Latvian: “Takaoka”
  • Literary Chinese: “高岡市”
  • Lithuanian: “Takaoka”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Takaoka”
  • Malagasy: “Takaoka”
  • Malay: “Takaoka, Toyama”
  • Malay: “Takaoka”
  • Marathi: “ताकाओका”
  • Mazanderani: “تاکائوکا، تویاما”
  • Mazanderani: “تاکائوکا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Takaoka-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Takaoka”
  • Norwegian: “Takaoka”
  • Persian: “تاکائوکا، تویاما”
  • Persian: “تاکائوکا”
  • Polish: “Takaoka”
  • Portuguese: “Takaoka”
  • Romanian: “Takaoka”
  • Russian: “Такаока Тояма”
  • Russian: “Такаока”
  • Russian: “Тояма Такаока”
  • Serbian: “Takaoka”
  • Serbian: “Такаока”
  • Serbian: “高岡市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Takaoka”
  • Sinhala: “ටකඕකා”
  • Slovak: “Takaoka”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تاکائوکا، تویاما”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تاکائوکا”
  • Spanish: “Takaoka”
  • Swedish: “Takaoka”
  • Tagalog: “Takaoka, Toyama”
  • Tagalog: “Takaoka”
  • Tajik: “Takaoka”
  • Tajik: “Такаока”
  • Tamil: “தகயோகா”
  • Tatar: “Такаока”
  • Telugu: “తకఓక”
  • Thai: “ทากาโอกะ”
  • Turkish: “Takaoka”
  • Ukrainian: “Такаока”
  • Urdu: “تاکاوکا”
  • Venetian: “Takaoka”
  • Vietnamese: “Takaoka, Toyama”
  • Vietnamese: “Takaoka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Takaoka, Toyama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Takaoka”
  • Welsh: “Takaoka-shi”
  • Welsh: “Takaoka”
  • Yue Chinese: “高岡”

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