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Wakayama

Wakayama

Wakayama is the capital of Wakayama prefecture, . Having played an important part in the history of Japan, Wakayama has a unique culture with many important shrines.
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  • Type: City with 364,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Wakayama City”, “Wakayama-shi”, and “Wakayamashi”
  • Neighbors:
Photo: Yusuke Hatanaka, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wakayama Castle and Wakayama.

Castle
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is a Japanese castle located in the city Wakayama, , . For most of the Edo Period, it was the administrative center of Kishū Domain, which was controlled by a cadet branch of the Tokugawa clan.

Railway station
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Station is an interchange passenger railway station located in the city of , , Japan, jointly operated by the West Japan Railway Company and the private railway company Electric Railway.

Railway station
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is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Wakayama, , Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saikazaki.

Locality
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is a cape in the southern part of Wakayama, , and is a specially designated region by .

Wakayama

Latitude
34.2343° or 34° 14′ 4″ north
Longitude
135.1784° or 135° 10′ 42″ east
Population
364,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Inception
April 1st, 1889
United Nations Location Code
JP WAK
Open location code
8Q6Q65MH+P8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1551511175
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1926004
Wiki­data ID
Q200747
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Wakayama” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “واكاياما”
  • Armenian: “Վակայամա”
  • Asturian: “Wakayama”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vakayama”
  • Basque: “Wakayama”
  • Belarusian: “Вакаяма (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Вакаяма”
  • Bengali: “উয়াকায়ামা”
  • Bulgarian: “Вакаяма”
  • Catalan: “Wakayama”
  • Cebuano: “Wakayama Shi”
  • Chechen: “Вакаяма (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Вакаяма”
  • Chinese: “Wakayama-chhī”
  • Chinese: “和歌山市”
  • Czech: “Wakajama”
  • Danish: “Wakayama”
  • Dutch: “Wakamaya”
  • Dutch: “Wakayama”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “واكاياما”
  • Esperanto: “Vakajamo”
  • Estonian: “Wakayama”
  • Finnish: “Wakayama”
  • French: “Wakayama-shi”
  • French: “Wakayama”
  • Galician: “Wakayama”
  • German: “Wakajama”
  • German: “Wakayama”
  • Greek: “Γουακαγιάμα”
  • Gujarati: “વાકયામા”
  • Hebrew: “וקאיאמה”
  • Hindi: “वाकायामा”
  • Hungarian: “Vakajama”
  • Indonesian: “Wakayama, Wakayama”
  • Indonesian: “Wakayama”
  • Irish: “Wakayama”
  • Italian: “Wakayama”
  • Japanese: “Wakayama-shi”
  • Japanese: “わかやま”
  • Japanese: “ワカヤマ”
  • Japanese: “わかやまし”
  • Japanese: “ワカヤマシ”
  • Japanese: “和歌山”
  • Japanese: “和歌山市”
  • Japanese: “若山”
  • Japanese: “雑賀の里”
  • Kannada: “ವಕಯಾಮಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Vakayama”
  • Kirghiz: “Вакаяма”
  • Korean: “와카야마시”
  • Latvian: “Vakajama”
  • Literary Chinese: “和歌山市”
  • Lithuanian: “Vakajama”
  • Lithuanian: “Wakayama”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Wakayama”
  • Malay: “Wakayama”
  • Marathi: “वाकायामा”
  • Mazanderani: “واکایاما”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wakayama-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wakayama”
  • Norwegian: “Wakayama”
  • Ossetian: “Вакаямæ (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Вакаямæ”
  • Persian: “واکایاما”
  • Polish: “Wakayama”
  • Portuguese: “Wakayama”
  • Romanian: “Wakayama”
  • Russian: “Вакаяма (город)”
  • Russian: “Вакаяма Вакаяма”
  • Russian: “Вакаяма, Вакаяма”
  • Russian: “Вакаяма”
  • Sardinian: “Wakayama”
  • Scots: “Wakayama Ceety”
  • Scots: “Wakayama”
  • Serbian: “Vakajama”
  • Serbian: “Вакајама”
  • Serbian: “和歌山市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vakajama”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wakayama”
  • Silesian: “Wakayama”
  • Sinhala: “වකයමා”
  • Slovenian: “Vakajama”
  • South Azerbaijani: “واکایاما”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Wakayama”
  • Spanish: “Wakayama”
  • Swahili: “Wakayama, Wakayama”
  • Swahili: “Wakayama”
  • Swedish: “Wakayama”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Wakayama”
  • Tagalog: “Wakayama”
  • Tajik: “Vakajama”
  • Tajik: “Вакаяма”
  • Tamil: “வாக்கயமா”
  • Tatar: “Вакаяма”
  • Telugu: “వకాయామా”
  • Thai: “วากายามะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Wakayama”
  • Turkish: “Wakamaya”
  • Turkish: “Wakayama, Wakayama”
  • Turkish: “Wakayama”
  • Ukrainian: “Вакаяма”
  • Urdu: “واکایاما، واکایاما”
  • Uzbek: “Vakayama”
  • Venetian: “Wakayama”
  • Vietnamese: “Wakayama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wakayama”
  • Welsh: “Wakayama”
  • Wu Chinese: “和歌山市”
  • Yue Chinese: “和歌山市”

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