Uwajima
Uwajima is a slice of small town life on the west coast of Shikoku — nothing much out of the ordinary, if you don't count an ancient fertility shrine and the occasional sumo match between two bulls.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Reggaeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Reggaeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 70,800 residents
- Description: city in Ehime Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Uwajima, Ehime” and “Uwazima”
- Neighbors: Shimanto City and Sukumo
Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Uwajima Castle and Kita-Uwajima Station.
Uwajima Castle
Castle
Photo: Vickerman625, Public domain.
Uwajima Castle is a hirayama-jiro Japanese castle located in the city of Uwajima, Ehime, Japan. An alternate name for this castle is Tsurushima-jō. The castle is one of twelve Japanese castles to still have its historical tenshu.
Kita-Uwajima Station
Railway station
Photo: Bakkai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kita-Uwajima Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Shikoku.
Uwajima City Historical Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Uwajima City Historical Museum opened in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan in 1992. The Western-style building in which the museum is housed dates to 1884 and is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
Uwajima
- Categories: city of Japan and locality
- Location: Ehime, Shikoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.2232° or 33° 13′ 24″ northLongitude
132.5607° or 132° 33′ 38″ eastPopulation
70,800Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP UWAOpen location code
8Q5J6HF6+77OpenStreetMap ID
node 691562998OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Uwajima” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يواجيما، إهيمه”
- Arabic: “يواجيما”
- Armenian: “Ուվաջիմա”
- Asturian: “Uwajima”
- Azerbaijani: “Uvacima”
- Basque: “Uwajima”
- Belarusian: “Увадзіма”
- Bengali: “উয়াজিমা”
- Catalan: “Uwajima”
- Cebuano: “Uwajima”
- Chechen: “Увадзима”
- Chinese: “Uwazima-chhī”
- Chinese: “宇和岛市”
- Chinese: “宇和島”
- Chinese: “宇和島市”
- Czech: “Itadžima”
- Czech: “Uwadžima”
- Danish: “Uwajima”
- Dutch: “Uwajima”
- Esperanto: “Uŭaĝima”
- Finnish: “Uwajima”
- French: “Uwajima”
- Galician: “Uwajima”
- German: “Uwajima”
- Greek: “Ουβατζίμα”
- Gujarati: “ઉવાજિમા”
- Hindi: “उवाजिमा”
- Hungarian: “Uvadzsima”
- Hungarian: “Uwajima”
- Indonesian: “Uwajima, Ehime”
- Indonesian: “Uwajima”
- Irish: “Uwajima”
- Italian: “Uwajima”
- Japanese: “Uwajima-Shi”
- Japanese: “うわじまし”
- Japanese: “宇和島”
- Japanese: “宇和島市”
- Kannada: “ಉವಾಜಿಮಾ”
- Korean: “우와지마 시”
- Korean: “우와지마시”
- Latvian: “Uvadžima”
- Literary Chinese: “宇和島市”
- Lithuanian: “Uvadžima”
- Malagasy: “Uwajima”
- Malay: “Uwajima, Ehime”
- Malay: “Uwajima”
- Marathi: “उवाजामा”
- Mazanderani: “اواجیما، اهیمه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Uwazima-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Uwajima”
- Persian: “اواجیما، اهیمه”
- Polish: “Uwajima”
- Portuguese: “Uwajima”
- Romanian: “Uwajima”
- Russian: “Увадзима”
- Serbian: “Увађима”
- Sinhala: “උවජිමා”
- Slovenian: “Uvadžima”
- South Azerbaijani: “اواجیما، اهیمه”
- Spanish: “Uwajima”
- Swedish: “Uwajima”
- Tagalog: “Uwadyima”
- Tagalog: “Uwajima”
- Tajik: “Uvaçima”
- Tajik: “Уваҷима”
- Tamil: “உவாஜிம”
- Tatar: “Увадзима”
- Telugu: “ఉవాజిమ”
- Thai: “อูวาจิมะ”
- Tumbuka: “Uwajima”
- Turkish: “Uwajima”
- Ukrainian: “Уваджіма”
- Ukrainian: “Увадзіма”
- Urdu: “اواجیما، اہیمے”
- Uzbek: “Uvadzima”
- Vietnamese: “Uwajima, Ehime”
- Vietnamese: “Uwajima”
- Waray (Philippines): “Uwajima, Ehime”
- Waray (Philippines): “Uwajima”
- Welsh: “Uwajima”
- Wu Chinese: “宇和島市”
- Yue Chinese: “宇和島”
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