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Yamagata

Yamagata

Yamagata is the prefectural capital of prefecture. , the largest ski resort in Tohoku that doubles as a hot spring resort, is within city limits, but it's 40 minutes away bus and covered in a separate article.
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  • Type: City with 248,000 residents
  • Description: city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Yamagatashi”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Yamagata Castle and Yamagata Station.

Castle
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is a flatland-style Japanese castle located in the center of the city of Yamagata, eastern , . Throughout the Edo period, was the headquarters for the daimyō of Yamagata Domain.

Railway station
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is a railway station in Yamagata, , Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Museum
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opened in Yamagata, , Japan, in 1964. The Museum's annex opened in 1968. In 1985 the new three-story main building opened; the annex was renovated the following year.

Yamagata

Latitude
38.2553° or 38° 15′ 19″ north
Longitude
140.34° or 140° 20′ 24″ east
Population
248,000
Elevation
321 metres (1,053 feet)
IATA airport code
GAJ
United Nations Location Code
JP GAJ
Open location code
8RC2784R+42
Open­Street­Map ID
node 752206840
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2110556
Wiki­data ID
Q205526
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yamagata” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ياماغاتا، ياماغاتا”
  • Arabic: “ياماغاتا”
  • Armenian: “Յամագաթա”
  • Asturian: “Yamagata”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yamaqata”
  • Balinese: “Yamagata, Yamagata”
  • Basque: “Yamagata”
  • Belarusian: “Ямагата (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Ямагата”
  • Bengali: “ইয়ামাগাতা”
  • Bulgarian: “Ямагата”
  • Catalan: “Yamagata”
  • Chechen: “Ямагата (Ямагата)”
  • Chechen: “Ямагата”
  • Chinese: “Yamagata-chhī”
  • Chinese: “山形市”
  • Czech: “Jamagata”
  • Danish: “Yamagata”
  • Dutch: “Yamagata”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ياماجاتا, ياماجاتا”
  • Esperanto: “Jamagata”
  • Estonian: “Yamagata”
  • Finnish: “Yamagata”
  • French: “Yamagata”
  • Galician: “Yamagata, Yamagata”
  • Galician: “Yamagata”
  • Georgian: “იამაგატა”
  • German: “Yamagata”
  • Greek: “Γιαμαγκάτα”
  • Gujarati: “યમગાતા”
  • Hebrew: “יאמאגטה”
  • Hindi: “यामागाता”
  • Hungarian: “Jamagata”
  • Icelandic: “Yamagata”
  • Inari Sami: “Yamagata”
  • Indonesian: “Yamagata, Yamagata”
  • Indonesian: “Yamagata”
  • Irish: “Yamagata”
  • Italian: “Yamagata”
  • Japanese: “Yamagata-shi”
  • Japanese: “やまがた”
  • Japanese: “ヤマガタ”
  • Japanese: “やまがたし”
  • Japanese: “ヤマガタシ”
  • Japanese: “山形”
  • Japanese: “山形市”
  • Kalaallisut: “Yamagata”
  • Kannada: “ಯಮಗಾಟ”
  • Korean: “야마가타시”
  • Latvian: “Jamagata”
  • Literary Chinese: “山形市”
  • Lithuanian: “Jamagata”
  • Lule Sami: “Yamagata”
  • Malay: “Yamagata”
  • Marathi: “यामागाटा”
  • Mazanderani: “یاماگاتا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yamagata-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Ямагата (ошсь)”
  • Moksha: “Ямагата”
  • Northern Sami: “Yamagata”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yamagata”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yamagata”
  • Norwegian: “Yamagata”
  • Persian: “یاماگاتا”
  • Polish: “Yamagata”
  • Portuguese: “Yamagata”
  • Romanian: “Yamagata, Yamagata”
  • Romanian: “Yamagata”
  • Russian: “Ямагата”
  • Sardinian: “Yamagata”
  • Scots: “Yamagata, Yamagata”
  • Scots: “Yamagata”
  • Serbian: “Jamagata”
  • Serbian: “Јамагата”
  • Serbian: “山形市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jamagata”
  • Silesian: “Yamagata”
  • Sinhala: “යමගාටා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Yamagata”
  • Slovenian: “Yamagata”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یاماقاتا”
  • Southern Sami: “Yamagata”
  • Spanish: “Yamagata Yamagata”
  • Spanish: “Yamagata”
  • Swahili: “Yamagata, Yamagata”
  • Swahili: “Yamagata”
  • Swedish: “Yamagata”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Yamagata”
  • Tagalog: “Yamagata”
  • Tajik: “Jamagata”
  • Tajik: “Ямагата, Ямагата”
  • Tamil: “யமாட்டா”
  • Tatar: “Ямагата”
  • Telugu: “యమగట”
  • Thai: “ยามางาตะ”
  • Turkish: “Yamagata”
  • Ukrainian: “Ямаґата”
  • Urdu: “یاماگاتا، یاماگاتا”
  • Uzbek: “Yamagata (shahar)”
  • Uzbek: “Yamagata”
  • Venetian: “Yamagata”
  • Vietnamese: “Yamagata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yamagata, Yamagata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yamagata”
  • Wu Chinese: “山形市”
  • Yue Chinese: “山形市”

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