Wajima
Wajima is a small town in Japan, on the Noto Peninsula, north of Kanazawa. The Wajima morning market, which was one of the town's most famous attractions, was destroyed by fires in the 2024 Noto earthquake.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 27,500 residents
- Description: city in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Wajima-shi”, “Wajima, Ishikawa”, “Wajimazakimachi”, and “Wazima”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wajima Museum of Urushi Art and Wajima City Hall.
Wajima Museum of Urushi Art
Museum
Photo: 石川県輪島漆芸美術館, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Wajima Museum of Urushi Art is a museum located in Wajima, Japan. The museum specializes in lacquer art.
Wajima
- Categories: city of Japan and locality
- Location: Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.3909° or 37° 23′ 27″ northLongitude
136.8996° or 136° 53′ 59″ eastPopulation
27,500Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)IATA airport code
NTQUnited Nations Location Code
JP WJMOpen location code
8Q9R9VRX+9ROpenStreetMap ID
node 762305950OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1848976Wikidata ID
Q823896
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Wajima” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “واجيما، إيشيكاوا”
- Arabic: “واجيما”
- Asturian: “Wajima”
- Basque: “Wajima”
- Bengali: “ওয়াজিমা”
- Catalan: “Wajima”
- Cebuano: “Wajima Shi”
- Cebuano: “Wajima”
- Chechen: “Вадзима”
- Chinese: “Wazima-chhī”
- Chinese: “轮岛市”
- Chinese: “輪島”
- Chinese: “輪島市”
- Czech: “Wadžima”
- Danish: “Wajima”
- Dutch: “Wajima”
- Estonian: “Wajima”
- Finnish: “Wajima”
- French: “Wajima-shi”
- French: “Wajima”
- Galician: “Wajima”
- German: “Wajima”
- Greek: “Γουατζίμα”
- Gujarati: “વાજિમા”
- Hebrew: “ואג’ימה”
- Hindi: “वाजिमा”
- Hungarian: “Vadzsima”
- Indonesian: “Wajima, Ishikawa”
- Indonesian: “Wajima”
- Irish: “Wajima”
- Italian: “Wajima”
- Japanese: “Wajima-shi”
- Japanese: “わじまし”
- Japanese: “輪島”
- Japanese: “輪島崎町”
- Japanese: “輪島市”
- Kannada: “ವಾಜಿಮಾ”
- Korean: “와지마 시”
- Korean: “와지마시”
- Latvian: “Vadžima”
- Literary Chinese: “輪島市”
- Lithuanian: “Vadžima”
- Luxembourgish: “Wajima”
- Macedonian: “Ваџима”
- Malay: “Wajima, Ishikawa”
- Malay: “Wajima”
- Marathi: “वाजिमा”
- Mazanderani: “واجیما، ایشیکاوا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wazima-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wajima”
- Persian: “واجیما، ایشیکاوا”
- Polish: “Wajima”
- Portuguese: “Wajima”
- Romanian: “Wajima”
- Russian: “Вадзима”
- Serbian: “Вађима”
- Silesian: “Wajima”
- Sinhala: “වජිමා”
- Slovenian: “Vadžima”
- Slovenian: “Wajima”
- South Azerbaijani: “واجیما، ایشیکاوا”
- Spanish: “Wajima”
- Swedish: “Wajima”
- Tagalog: “Wadyima”
- Tagalog: “Wajima, Ishikawa”
- Tagalog: “Wajima”
- Tajik: “Vaçima”
- Tajik: “Ваҷима”
- Tamil: “வாஜிமா”
- Tatar: “Вадзима”
- Telugu: “వజిమ”
- Thai: “วาจิมะ”
- Turkish: “Wajima”
- Ukrainian: “Ваджіма”
- Ukrainian: “Вадзіма”
- Urdu: “واجیما”
- Vietnamese: “Wajima, Ishikawa”
- Vietnamese: “Wajima”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wajima, Ishikawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wajima”
- Welsh: “Wajima-shi”
- Yue Chinese: “輪島”
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