Tendo

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

Places of Interest

Highlights: Tendō Station and Dewazakura Art Museum.

Railway station
is a railway station in the city…

Museum
Dewazakura Museum of Art opened in Tendō, , Japan in 1988.

Railway station
is a railway station in the city…

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)
UN/LOCODE
JP TEN
Open location code
8RC2996G+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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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: “天童市”
  • Czech: “Tendó”
  • Danish: “Tendo”
  • Dutch: “Tendo”
  • Esperanto: “Tendo”
  • Finnish: “Tendō”
  • French: “Tendō”
  • Galician: “Tendō”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “تندو”
  • 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”
  • Urdu: “ٹینڈو، یاماگاٹا”
  • Uzbek: “Tendō, Yamagata”
  • Uzbek: “Tendō”
  • Vietnamese: “Tendō, Yamagata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tendō, Yamagata”
  • Yue Chinese: “天童”
  • “天童市”

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Places to explore: 老野森一丁目 and 東本町二丁目.

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