Tsuwano
Tsuwano is a town in Shimane 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Tsuwano Castle and Yōrōkan.
Tsuwano Castle
Castle
Photo: Mocchy, Public domain.
Tsuwano Castle was a Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Tsuwano, Shimane Prefecture, 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.
Tsuwano
- Categories: town of Japan and locality
- Location: Kanoashi district, Shimane, Chugoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.4692° or 34° 28′ 9″ northLongitude
131.7753° or 131° 46′ 31″ eastPopulation
7,650Elevation
275 metres (902 feet)Open location code
8Q6HFQ9G+M4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1745661734OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
7392550Wikidata ID
Q640586
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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”
- Japanese: “つわのちょう”
- Japanese: “ツワノチョウ”
- Japanese: “津和野町”
- Korean: “쓰와노정”
- Malay: “Tsuwano, Shimane”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsuwano”
- Norwegian: “Tsuwano”
- Persian: “تسووانو، شیمانه”
- Polish: “Tsuwano”
- Portuguese: “Tsuwano”
- Russian: “Цувано”
- Spanish: “Tsuwano”
- Swedish: “Tsuwano”
- Tagalog: “Tsuwano, Shimane”
- Thai: “สึวาโนะ”
- Turkish: “Tsuwano”
- Ukrainian: “Цувано”
- Welsh: “Tsuwano”
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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 “Tsuwano”. Photo: そらみみ, CC BY-SA 4.0.