Tsuwano

Tsuwano is a town in Prefecture, Japan. It's on the border with Yamaguchi Prefecture. It's sometimes referred to as "Little Kyoto" and is well known for having tens of thousands of koi that live in the narrow canals that run through town, mostly in the Tonomachi area.
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  • Type: Town with 7,650 residents
  • Description: town in Kanoashi district, Shimane prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Tsuwano Cho” and “Tsuwano, Shimane”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tsuwano Castle and Tojuku Museum of Art.

Castle
Photo: Mocchy, Public domain.
was a Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Tsuwano, , in the San'in region of far western Japan. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1942.

Museum
Photo: そらみみ, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Museum
Photo: そらみみ, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tsuwano

Latitude
34.4692° or 34° 28′ 9″ north
Longitude
131.7753° or 131° 46′ 31″ east
Population
7,650
Elevation
275 metres (902 feet)
Open location code
8Q6HFQ9G+M4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1745661734
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7392550
Wiki­data ID
Q640586
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Tsuwano” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تسوانو”
  • Armenian: “Ցուվանո”
  • Asturian: “Tsuwano”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tsuvano”
  • Basque: “Tsuwano”
  • Burmese: “ဆွတ်ဝနိုမြို့၊ ရှိမနဲ”
  • Cebuano: “Tsuwano Chō”
  • Chinese: “津和野町”
  • Czech: “Cuwano”
  • Dutch: “Tsuwano”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تسوانو”
  • French: “Tsuwano”
  • German: “Tsuwano”
  • Hungarian: “Cuvano”
  • Indonesian: “Tsuwano, Shimane”
  • Irish: “Tsuwano”
  • Italian: “Tsuwano”
  • Japanese: “Tsuwano-chō”
  • Japanese: “つわのちょう”
  • Japanese: “ツワノチョウ”
  • Japanese: “津和野町”
  • Korean: “쓰와노정”
  • Korean: “쓰와노초”
  • Macedonian: “Цувано”
  • Malay: “Tsuwano, Shimane”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsuwano”
  • Norwegian: “Tsuwano”
  • Persian: “تسووانو، شیمانه”
  • Persian: “تسووانو”
  • Polish: “Tsuwano”
  • Portuguese: “Tsuwano”
  • Russian: “Цувано”
  • Spanish: “Tsuwano”
  • Swedish: “Tsuwano”
  • Tagalog: “Tsuwano, Shimane”
  • Thai: “สึวาโนะ”
  • Turkish: “Tsuwano”
  • Ukrainian: “Цувано”
  • Urdu: “تسووانو، شیمانے”
  • Welsh: “Tsuwano”

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