Wakkanai
Wakkanai is the northernmost city in Japan. It has a population of about 34,000, and is in the subdistrict of Soya in northern Hokkaido. It is the gateway to Rishiri-Rebun-Sarobetsu National Park, Japan's northernmost national park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: 100yen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: 100yen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 33,600 residents
- Description: city in Sōya Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan
- Also known as: “Inai” and “Wakkanai-shi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hokkaido Soya General Subprefectural Bereau and Wakkanai Station.
Hokkaido Soya General Subprefectural Bereau
Government building
Photo: 100yen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Northern Circuit covers the northern and inner part of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Wakkanai Station
Railway station
Photo: MaedaAkihiko, CC0.
Wakkanai Station is a railway station located in the city of Wakkanai, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is operated by JR Hokkaido. It is the northernmost railway station in Japan. The station is numbered "W80".
Minami-Wakkanai Station
Railway station
Photo: Asasa198, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Minami-Wakkanai Station is a railway station located in the city of Wakkanai, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is operated by JR Hokkaido. The station is numbered "W79".
Wakkanai
- Categories: city of Japan, second-level administrative division, and locality
- Location: Northern Circuit, Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.4158° or 45° 24′ 57″ northLongitude
141.673° or 141° 40′ 23″ eastPopulation
33,600Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)IATA airport code
WKJUnited Nations Location Code
JP WKJOpen location code
8RQ3CM8F+86OpenStreetMap ID
node 2643056109OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2127515Wikidata ID
Q267894
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Wakkanai” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “واكاناي، هوكايدو”
- Arabic: “واكاناي”
- Armenian: “Վականաի”
- Asturian: “Wakkanai”
- Azerbaijani: “Vakkanai”
- Azerbaijani: “Vakkanay”
- Bashkir: “Вакканай”
- Basque: “Wakkanai”
- Bavarian: “Wakkanai”
- Belarusian: “Ваканай”
- Bengali: “ওয়াক্কানাই”
- Catalan: “Wakkanai”
- Cebuano: “Wakkanai Shi”
- Cebuano: “Wakkanai”
- Chechen: “Вакканай”
- Chinese: “Wakkanai-chhī”
- Chinese: “稚內”
- Chinese: “稚內市”
- Chinese: “稚内市”
- Czech: “Wakkanai”
- Danish: “Wakkanai”
- Dutch: “Wakkanai”
- Esperanto: “Ŭakkanai”
- Estonian: “Wakkanai”
- Finnish: “Wakkanai”
- French: “Wakkanai”
- Galician: “Wakkanai”
- German: “Wakkanai”
- Greek: “Γουακανάι”
- Gujarati: “વાક્કેનઈ”
- Hindi: “वक़्क़ानी”
- Hungarian: “Vakkanai”
- Ido: “Wakkanai, Hokkaido”
- Ido: “Wakkanai”
- Indonesian: “Wakkanai, Hokkaido”
- Indonesian: “Wakkanai”
- Irish: “Wakkanai”
- Italian: “Wakkanai”
- Japanese: “Wakkanai-shi”
- Japanese: “わっかないし”
- Japanese: “稚内”
- Japanese: “稚内市”
- Japanese: “稚内村”
- Japanese: “稚内町”
- Kannada: “ವಕ್ಕಾನೈ”
- Korean: “왁가나이 시”
- Korean: “왓카나이 시”
- Korean: “왓카나이시”
- Latvian: “Vakanaju”
- Literary Chinese: “稚內市”
- Lithuanian: “Vakanajus”
- Malagasy: “Wakkanai”
- Malay: “Wakkanai”
- Marathi: “वक्काना”
- Mazanderani: “واکانای، هوکایدو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wakkanai-chhī”
- Northern Frisian: “Wakkanai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wakkanai”
- Norwegian: “Wakkanai”
- Novial: “Wakkanai”
- Persian: “واکانای، هوکایدو”
- Polish: “Wakkanai-chi”
- Polish: “Wakkanai”
- Portuguese: “Wakkanai”
- Romanian: “Wakkanai”
- Romansh: “Wakkanai”
- Russian: “Вакканай”
- Sinhala: “වක්කනායි”
- Slovenian: “Wakkanai”
- South Azerbaijani: “واکانای، هوکایدو”
- Spanish: “Wakkanai”
- Swedish: “Wakkanai”
- Tagalog: “Wakkanai”
- Tajik: “Вакканаи”
- Tamil: “வாக்கானை”
- Tatar: “Вакканай”
- Telugu: “వక్కనై”
- Thai: “วักกะไน”
- Thai: “วักกาไน”
- Tumbuka: “Wakkanai”
- Turkish: “Wakkanai”
- Ukrainian: “Вакканай”
- Urdu: “واکانای”
- Uzbek: “Vakkanai (Xokkaydo)”
- Uzbek: “Vakkanai”
- Vietnamese: “Wakkanai, Hokkaidō”
- Vietnamese: “Wakkanai”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wakkanai, Hokkaidō”
- Wu Chinese: “稚内市”
- Yue Chinese: “稚內”
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