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Tsukuba

Tsukuba is a city located in , . As of January 1, 2024, the city had an estimated population of 256,526 in 121,001 households and a population density of 900 persons per km2.
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  • Type: City with 234,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Tsukuba-kenkyūgakuen-toshi”, “Tsukuba, Ibaraki”, and “Tsukuba, Japan”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kenkyū-gakuen Station and Tsukuba City Hall.

Railway station
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is a passenger railway station in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, operated by the Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company. Its station number is TX19.

Town hall
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is a town hall.

Museum
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The Science Museum of Map and Survey is a museum in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, that is dedicated to mapping and surveying. The museum was the first of its kind in Japan when it was opened by the Geographical Survey Institute of Japan in June 1996.

Tsukuba

Latitude
36.0833° or 36° 5′ north
Longitude
140.0773° or 140° 4′ 38″ east
Population
234,000
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
IATA airport code
XEI
United Nations Location Code
JP TSB
Open location code
8R8233MG+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 768273008
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2110681
Wiki­data ID
Q273863
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tsukuba” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تسوكوبا، إيباراكي”
  • Arabic: “تسوكوبا”
  • Armenian: “Ծուկուբա”
  • Armenian: “Ցուկուբա”
  • Asturian: “Tsukuba”
  • Basque: “Tsukuba”
  • Belarusian: “Цукуба”
  • Bengali: “সোকোবা”
  • Bulgarian: “Тсукуба”
  • Bulgarian: “Тцукуба”
  • Bulgarian: “Цукуба”
  • Catalan: “Tsukuba”
  • Cebuano: “Tsukuba-shi”
  • Chechen: “Цукуба”
  • Chinese: “Tukuba-chhī”
  • Chinese: “筑波”
  • Chinese: “筑波市”
  • Czech: “Cukuba”
  • Danish: “Tsukuba”
  • Dutch: “Tsukuba”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تسوكوبا”
  • Esperanto: “Cukuba”
  • Esperanto: “Tsukuba”
  • Estonian: “Tsukuba”
  • Finnish: “Tsukuba”
  • French: “Tsukuba”
  • Galician: “Tsukuba”
  • German: “Tsukuba”
  • Greek: “Τσουκούμπα”
  • Gujarati: “સુકુબા”
  • Hebrew: “צוקובה”
  • Hindi: “सुकुबा”
  • Hungarian: “Cukuba”
  • Indonesian: “Tsukuba, Ibaraki”
  • Indonesian: “Tsukuba”
  • Irish: “Tsukuba”
  • Italian: “Tsukuba”
  • Japanese: “Tsukuba-shi”
  • Japanese: “つくば”
  • Japanese: “つくばし”
  • Japanese: “つくば市”
  • Japanese: “筑波”
  • Kannada: “ಸುಕುಬಾ”
  • Korean: “쓰쿠바 시”
  • Korean: “쓰쿠바”
  • Korean: “쓰쿠바시”
  • Korean: “츠쿠바 시”
  • Korean: “츠쿠바”
  • Latvian: “Cukuba”
  • Literary Chinese: “筑波市”
  • Lithuanian: “Tsukuba”
  • Malagasy: “Tsukuba”
  • Malay: “Tsukuba”
  • Marathi: “तुकुबा”
  • Mazanderani: “تسوکوبا، ایباراکی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tukuba-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsukuba”
  • Norwegian: “Tsukuba”
  • Persian: “تسوکوبا، ایباراکی”
  • Persian: “تسوکوبا”
  • Polish: “Tsukuba”
  • Portuguese: “Tsukuba”
  • Romanian: “Tsukuba”
  • Russian: “Цукуба”
  • Serbian: “Cukuba”
  • Serbian: “Цукуба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cukuba”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tsukuba”
  • Sinhala: “ට්සුකුබා”
  • Slovenian: “Cukuba”
  • Slovenian: “Tsukuba”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تسوکوبا، ایباراکی”
  • Spanish: “Tsukuba (Ibaraki)”
  • Spanish: “Tsukuba”
  • Swedish: “Tsukuba”
  • Tagalog: “Tsukuba, Ibaraki”
  • Tagalog: “Tsukuba”
  • Tajik: “Tsukuba”
  • Tajik: “Тсукуба”
  • Tamil: “சுகுபா”
  • Tatar: “Тсукуба”
  • Tatar: “Цукуба”
  • Telugu: “సుకుబ”
  • Thai: “สึกุบะ”
  • Thai: “สึกูบะ”
  • Turkish: “Tsukuba”
  • Ukrainian: “Цукуба”
  • Urdu: “تسوکوبا، ایباراکی”
  • Uzbek: “Tsukuba”
  • Venetian: “Tsukuba”
  • Vietnamese: “Tsukuba”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tsukuba, Ibaraki”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tsukuba”
  • Yue Chinese: “筑波”

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