Yamagata
Yamagata is the prefectural capital of Yamagata prefecture. Zao Onsen, 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.
- City with about 247,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 320 metres (1,050 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code GAJ
- …is also known as “Yamagatashi”
- Description: city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yamagata Station and Yamagata Castle.
Yamagata Station
Yamagata Station is a railway station in Yamagata…
Yamagata Castle
Yamagata Castle is a flatland-style Japanese castle…
Yamagata Museum of Art
Yamagata Museum of Art opened in Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, in 1964.
Yamagata
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Latitude
38.2553° or 38° 15′ 19″ north
Longitude
140.34° or 140° 20′ 24″ east
UN/LOCODE
JP GAJ
Open location code
8RC2784R+42
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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: “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”
Places with the Same Name
Localities in the Area
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