Kagoshima
Kagoshima, officially Kagoshima City, is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Located at the southwestern tip of the island of Kyūshū, Kagoshima is the largest city in the prefecture by some margin.Photo: Toecheese-jp, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Krauser levyl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 593,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Kagoshima prefecture
- Neighbors: Ibusuki and Satsumasendai
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.1 jp.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Kagoshima-Chūō Station
Railway station
Photo: Tokyo-Good, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kagoshima-Chūō Station is a major railway station in Kagoshima, Japan, operated by the Kyushu Railway Company.
Kagoshima Castle
Ruins
Photo: Sakoppi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kagoshima Castle, also known as Tsurumaru Castle, was a Japanese castle located in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture.
Museum of the Meiji Restoration
Museum
Photo: STA3816, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of the Meiji Restoration is a history museum in Kagoshima, Japan.
Localities in the Area
Kagoshima
- Categories: core city of Japan, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, Jōkamachi, city of Japan, city for international conferences and tourism and locality
- Location: Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.5968° or 31° 35' 49" northLongitude
130.5572° or 130° 33' 26" eastPopulation
593,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open Location Code
8Q3GHHW4+PVOpenStreetMap ID
node 640003455OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1860827Wikidata ID
Q15674Kagoshima Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Kagoshima
- Arabic: كاغوشيما
- Arabic: كاغوشيما، كاغوشيما
- Armenian: Կոգոշիմա (քաղաք)
- Armenian: Կոգոշիմա
- Asturian: Kagoshima
- Azerbaijani: Kaqoşima
- Basque: Kagoshima
- Bavarian: Kagoshima
- Belarusian: Кагосіма
- Bengali: কাগোশিমা
- Bulgarian: Кагошима
- Catalan: Kagoshima
- Cebuano: Kagoshima-shi (kapital sa prepektura sa Hapon)
- Cebuano: Kagoshima Shi
- Chechen: Кагосима (гӀала)
- Chechen: Кагосима
- Chinese: Kagosima-chhī
- Chinese: 鹿儿岛市
- Chinese: 鹿兒島
- Chinese: 鹿兒島市
- Croatian: Kagoshima
- Croatian: Kagošima
- Czech: Kagošima
- Danish: Kagoshima
- Dutch: Kagoshima
- Egyptian Arabic: كاجوشيما
- Esperanto: Kagoŝima
- Estonian: Kagoshima
- Faroese: Kagoshima
- Finnish: Kagoshima
- French: Kagoshima
- Galician: Kagoshima
- Georgian: კაგოსიმა (ქალაქი)
- German: Kagoschima
- German: Kagoshima
- Greek: Καγκοσίμα
- Gujarati: કાગોશિમા
- Hausa: Kagoshima
- Hawaiian: Kagoshima
- Hebrew: קגושימה
- Hindi: कागोशिमा
- Hungarian: Kagosima
- Ido: Kagoshima
- Indonesian: Kagoshima, Kagoshima
- Indonesian: Kagoshima
- Irish: Kagoshima
- Italian: Kagoshima
- Japanese: Kagoshima-shi
- Japanese: かごしま
- Japanese: かごしまし
- Japanese: カゴシマ
- Japanese: カゴシマシ
- Japanese: 鹿児島
- Japanese: 鹿児島市
- Kannada: ಕಗೊಶಿಮಾ
- Kirghiz: Кагосима
- Korean: 가고시마 시
- Korean: 가고시마시
- Latvian: Kagosima
- Latvian: Kagošima
- Literary Chinese: 鹿兒島市
- Lithuanian: Kagošima (miestas)
- Lithuanian: Kagošima
- Macedo-Romanian: Kagoshima
- Malagasy: Kagoshima
- Malay: Kagoshima
- Marathi: कागोशिमा
- Mazanderani: کاگوشیما
- Min Nan Chinese: Kagosima-chhī
- Nauru: Kagoshima
- Northern Frisian: Kagoshima
- Norwegian: Kagoshima
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kagoshima
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kagoshima
- Occitan (post 1500): Kagoshima
- Ossetian: Кагосимæ
- Persian: کاگوشیما
- Polish: Kagoshima
- Pontic: Καγκοσίμα
- Portuguese: Kagoshima
- Romanian: Kagoshima
- Russian: Кагосима
- Sardinian: Kagoshima
- Scots: Kagoshima
- Serbian: Кагошима
- Serbo-Croatian: Kagoshima
- Serbo-Croatian: Kagosima
- Sindhi: ڪاگوشيما
- Sinhala: කගොශිමා
- Slovenian: Kagošima
- South Azerbaijani: کاقوشیما
- Spanish: Kagoshima
- Swahili: Kagoshima
- Swedish: Kagoshima
- Tagalog: Kagoshima
- Tagalog: Lungsod ng Kagoshima
- Tajik: Кагошима
- Tamil: ககோஷிமா
- Tatar: Кагосима
- Tatar: Кагочима
- Telugu: కాగోషిమా
- Thai: คาโงชิมะ
- Tumbuka: Kagoshima
- Turkish: Kagoshima
- Turkish: Kagoşima
- Ukrainian: Кагосіма
- Ukrainian: Кагошіма
- Ukrainian: Каґосіма
- Ukrainian: Каґошіма
- Urdu: کاگوشیما
- Uzbek: Kagosima
- Venetian: Kagoshima
- Vietnamese: Kagoshima
- Waray (Philippines): Kagoshima
- Welsh: Kagoshima
- Wu Chinese: 鹿儿岛市
- Yue Chinese: 鹿兒島市
- Kagoshimashi
- კაგოსიმა
Other Places Named Kagoshima
In the Area
Kagoshima is situated close to the quarters Yamashitacho and Meizancho.
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