Yonezawa
Yonezawa is a city in Yamagata, Japan. The walls and moats of its castle remain, and the grounds are a popular place for cherry blossom viewing in the spring.Photo: Kano, Public domain.
Photo: contri, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City with 81,300 residents
- Description: city in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Yonezawa, Yamagata”
- Neighbors: Fukushima and Inawashiro
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yonezawa Station and Yonezawa City Uesugi Museum.
Yonezawa Station
Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yonezawa Station is a junction railway station in the city of Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.
Yonezawa City Uesugi Museum
Museum
Photo: 掬茶, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yonezawa City Uesugi Museum opened in the former grounds of Yonezawa Castle in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, in 2001. The collection of some 18,800 objects includes the National Treasures Scenes In and Around the Capital, by Kanō Eitoku, and Uesugi Family Documents.
Nishi-Yonezawa Station
Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nishi-Yonezawa Station is a railway station in the city of Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.
Yonezawa
- Categories: city of Japan, jōkamachi, and locality
- Location: Yamagata, Tohoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.9218° or 37° 55′ 19″ northLongitude
140.1162° or 140° 6′ 58″ eastPopulation
81,300Elevation
249 metres (817 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP YONOpen location code
8R92W4C8+PFOpenStreetMap ID
node 1201727341OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yonezawa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يونيزاوا، ياماغاتا”
- Arabic: “يونيزاوا”
- Asturian: “Yonezawa”
- Bengali: “ইউনেযাওয়া”
- Catalan: “Yonezawa”
- Cebuano: “Yonezawa Shi”
- Chechen: “Йонедзава”
- Chinese: “Yonezawa-chhī”
- Chinese: “米泽”
- Chinese: “米泽市”
- Chinese: “米澤”
- Chinese: “米澤市”
- Czech: “Jonezawa”
- Danish: “Yonezawa”
- Dutch: “Yonezawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يونيزاوا”
- Finnish: “Yonezawa”
- French: “Yonezawa”
- Galician: “Yonezawa”
- Georgian: “იონეძავა”
- German: “Yonezawa”
- Greek: “Γιονεζάβα”
- Gujarati: “યોનેઝાવા”
- Hebrew: “יונזאווה”
- Hindi: “योनेज़वा”
- Hungarian: “Jonezava”
- Indonesian: “Yonezawa, Yamagata”
- Indonesian: “Yonezawa”
- Irish: “Yonezawa”
- Italian: “Yonezawa”
- Japanese: “Yonezawa-shi”
- Japanese: “よねざわし”
- Japanese: “米沢”
- Japanese: “米沢市”
- Kannada: “ಯೋನೆಜಾವಾ”
- Korean: “요네자와 시”
- Korean: “요네자와시”
- Latvian: “Jonezava”
- Literary Chinese: “米澤市”
- Lithuanian: “Jonezava”
- Malagasy: “Yonezawa”
- Malay: “Yonezawa”
- Marathi: “योनेझावा”
- Mazanderani: “یونه زاوا، یاماگاتا”
- Mazanderani: “یونهزاوا، یاماگاتا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yonezawa-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yonezawa”
- Persian: “یونه زاوا، یاماگاتا”
- Persian: “یونهزاوا، یاماگاتا”
- Persian: “یونهزاوا”
- Polish: “Yonezawa”
- Portuguese: “Yonezawa”
- Romanian: “Yonezawa”
- Russian: “Ёнэдзава”
- Russian: “Йонедзава”
- Russian: “Йонезава”
- Silesian: “Yonezawa”
- Sinhala: “යෝනේසාවා”
- South Azerbaijani: “یونهزاوا، یاماقاتا”
- Spanish: “Yonezawa”
- Swedish: “Yonezawa”
- Tagalog: “Yonesawa”
- Tagalog: “Yonezawa”
- Tajik: “Jonezava”
- Tajik: “Ёнезава”
- Tamil: “யோனிசவா”
- Tatar: “Йонедзава”
- Telugu: “యోనెజావా”
- Thai: “โยเนซาวะ”
- Thai: “โยะเนะซะวะ”
- Tumbuka: “Yonezawa”
- Turkish: “Yonezawa”
- Ukrainian: “Йонедзава”
- Urdu: “یونیزاوا، یاماگاتا”
- Uzbek: “Yonezava, Yamagata”
- Uzbek: “Yonezava”
- Vietnamese: “Yonezawa, Yamagata”
- Vietnamese: “Yonezawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yonezawa, Yamagata”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yonezawa”
- Yue Chinese: “米澤”
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