Tenkawa
Tenkawa is a village located in Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 January 2025, the village had an estimated population of 1,031 and a population density of 5.9 persons per km2. The total area of the village is 175.66 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,430 residents
- Description: village in Yoshino district, Nara prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Tenkawa, Nara”
- Postal code: 638-0392
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tenkawa Daibenzaiten-sha and Tsuzurao Dam.
Tenkawa Daibenzaiten-sha
Shinto shrine
Photo: Tamago Moffle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tenkawa Daibenzaiten-sha is a Shinto shrine.
Tsuzurao Dam
Dam
Tsuzurao Dam is a concrete gravity dam located in Nara prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for power production. The catchment area of the dam is 120.4 km2.
Tenkawa
- Categories: village of Japan and locality
- Location: Yoshino district, Nara, Kansai, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.2191° or 34° 13′ 9″ northLongitude
135.8584° or 135° 51′ 30″ eastPopulation
1,430Elevation
608 metres (1,995 feet)Open location code
8Q6Q6V95+M9OpenStreetMap ID
node 2459090671OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
1850407Wikidata ID
Q1203501
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Tenkawa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تينكاوا”
- Armenian: “Տենկավա”
- Catalan: “Tenkawa”
- Cebuano: “Tenkawa-mura”
- Chinese: “天川村”
- Czech: “Tenkawa”
- Dutch: “Tenkawa”
- French: “Tenkawa”
- German: “Tenkawa”
- Hungarian: “Tenkava”
- Irish: “Tenkawa”
- Italian: “Tenkawa”
- Japanese: “Tenkawa-mura”
- Japanese: “てんかわむら”
- Japanese: “天川村”
- Korean: “덴카와무라”
- Korean: “덴카와촌”
- Persian: “تنکاوا، نارا”
- Persian: “تنکاوا”
- Polish: “Tenkawa”
- Portuguese: “Tenkawa”
- Russian: “Тенкава”
- Russian: “Тэнкава”
- Slovenian: “Tenkava”
- Slovenian: “Tenkawa”
- Spanish: “Tenkawa”
- Tagalog: “Tenkawa, Nara”
- Tagalog: “Tenkawa”
- Thai: “เท็งกาวะ”
- Turkish: “Tenkawa-mura”
- Turkish: “Tenkawa”
- Ukrainian: “Тенкава”
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