Tendo

Tendo is a city in , , known for exactly one thing: making pieces for shogi, also known as Japanese chess.
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  • Type: City with 62,100 residents
  • Description: city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: Tendo City”, “Tendo-shi”, and “Tendō, Yamagata
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tendō Station and Dewazakura Art Museum.

Railway station
is a railway station in the city of Tendō, Yamagata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Museum
Dewazakura Museum of Art opened in Tendō, , Japan in 1988. Owned and operated by the Dewazakura Sake Brewery Corporation, the collection focuses on traditional Japanese and Korean arts and crafts, including ceramics, paintings, and calligraphy.

Railway station
is a railway station in the city of Tendō, Yamagata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Tendo

Latitude
38.3624° or 38° 21′ 45″ north
Longitude
140.3773° or 140° 22′ 38″ east
Population
62,100
Elevation
108 metres (354 feet)
United Nations Location Code
JP TEN
Open location code
8RC2996G+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752206823
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2110793
Wiki­data ID
Q385779
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tendo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: تيندو، ياماغاتا
  • Arabic: تيندو
  • Asturian: Tendō
  • Bengali: তেন্ডু
  • Catalan: Tendō
  • Cebuano: Tendō
  • Chechen: Тендо
  • Chinese: Tendô-chhī
  • Chinese: 天童
  • Chinese: 天童市
  • Czech: Tendó
  • Danish: Tendo
  • Dutch: Tendo
  • Esperanto: Tendo Urbo
  • Esperanto: Tendo-ŝi
  • Esperanto: Tendo
  • Finnish: Tendō
  • French: Tendō
  • Galician: Tendō
  • German: Tendo
  • German: Tendō
  • Greek: Τεντό
  • Gujarati: કંપોઝ
  • Hebrew: טנדו
  • Hindi: तेंदो
  • Hungarian: Tendó
  • Indonesian: Tendō, Yamagata
  • Indonesian: Tendō
  • Irish: Tendō
  • Italian: Tendō
  • Japanese: Tendō-shi
  • Japanese: てんどうし
  • Japanese: 天童
  • Japanese: 天童市
  • Japanese: 天童町
  • Kannada: ಟೆಂಡೊ
  • Korean: 덴도시
  • Latvian: Tendo
  • Literary Chinese: 天童市
  • Lithuanian: Tendas
  • Malagasy: Tendō
  • Malay: Tendo
  • Marathi: तेंदु
  • Mazanderani: تندو، یاماگاتا
  • Min Nan Chinese: Tendô-chhī
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Tendo
  • Persian: تندو، یاماگاتا
  • Polish: Tendō
  • Portuguese: Tendo
  • Romanian: Tendo, Yamagata
  • Romanian: Tendō
  • Russian: Тендо
  • Russian: Тэндо
  • Sinhala: ටෙන්ඩෝ
  • South Azerbaijani: تندو، یاماقاتا
  • Spanish: Tendō
  • Swedish: Tendo
  • Swedish: Tendō
  • Tagalog: Tendo, Yamagata
  • Tagalog: Tendō, Yamagata
  • Tajik: Тендо
  • Tamil: டெண்டோ
  • Tatar: Тендо
  • Telugu: తెందో
  • Thai: เท็นโด
  • Turkish: Tendō
  • Ukrainian: Тендо
  • Urdu: تیندو
  • Uzbek: Tendō, Yamagata
  • Uzbek: Tendō
  • Vietnamese: Tendō, Yamagata
  • Waray (Philippines): Tendō, Yamagata
  • Yue Chinese: 天童
  • Yue Chinese: 天童市

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tendo”. Photo: foooomio, CC BY 2.0.