Kanagawa
Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 and third-densest at 3,800 inhabitants per square kilometre.Photo: Torsodog, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Popular Destinations
Yokohama
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On the western coast of Tokyo Bay directly south of Tokyo, Yokohama is the second largest city in Japan and one of the cities most used to seeing foreigners.
Kawasaki
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Kawasaki is a city in Kanagawa, Japan, sandwiched between Tokyo and Yokohama.
Kamakura
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Kamakura is a small city in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, Japan.
Destinations
Odawara
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Odawara is a city in Kanagawa prefecture in eastern Japan.
Atsugi
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Atsugi is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Generally known as a commuter city, Atsugi does have a few local attractions.
Fujisawa
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Fujisawa is a small town near Kamakura, Japan. It is also the name of the municipality that encompasses Shonandai and Enoshima.
Zushi
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Zushi is a small city in Kanagawa, Japan about an hour by train south of Tokyo.
Miura
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Miura is a city in Kanagawa, covering the southernmost part of the Miura Peninsula, best known for tuna at its fishery port, Misaki.
Enoshima
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Enoshima is both a small island and a small seaside town next to the island in Kanagawa prefecture Fujisawa city, to the south of Tokyo.
Manazuru
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Manazuru is a coastal resort in Kanagawa prefecture, on the east coast of the Izu Peninsula southwest of Tokyo, Japan, near Hakone, Odawara, Atami and Yugawara.
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Kanagawa
Latitude of centre
35.4343° or 35° 26' 4" northLongitude of centre
139.3748° or 139° 22' 29" eastPopulation
9,100,000Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 2719205431OpenStreetMap Feature
place=provinceGeoNames ID
1860291Wikidata ID
Q127513Kanagawa Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Prefektur Kanagawa
- Afar: Kanagavа prefekturası
- Afrikaans: Kanagawa-prefektuur
- Afrikaans: Kanagawa Prefektuur
- Albanian: Kanagawa
- Arabic: Kanagawa
- Arabic: كاناغاوا
- Arabic: محافظة كاناغاوا
- Armenian: Կանագավա
- Asturian: Kanagawa (Xapón)
- Asturian: Kanagawa (prefeutura)
- Asturian: Kanagawa
- Asturian: Prefeutura de Kanagawa
- Asturian: prefeutura de Kanagawa
- Azerbaijani: Kanaqava prefekturası
- Balinese: Préféktur Kanagawa
- Bashkir: Канагава
- Basque: Kanagawa
- Basque: Kanagawa prefektura
- Belarusian: Канагава
- Belarusian: Прэфектура Канагава
- Belarusian: Прэфэктура Канагава
- Belarusian: прэфектура Канагава
- Bengali: কানাগাওয়া প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল
- Bulgarian: Канагава
- Catalan: Prefectura de Kanagawa
- Catalan: prefectura de Kanagawa
- Cebuano: Kanagawa-ken
- Central Kurdish: کاناگاوا
- Chechen: Канагава (префектура)
- Chechen: Канагава
- Chinese: Kanagawa-koān
- Chinese: 神奈川
- Chinese: 神奈川县
- Chinese: 神奈川県
- Chinese: 神奈川縣
- Croatian: Kanagawa
- Croatian: Prefektura Kanagava
- Czech: Prefektura Kanagawa
- Czech: prefektura Kanagawa
- Danish: Kanagawa-ken
- Danish: Kanagawa-præfekturet
- Danish: Kanagawa
- Dutch: Kanagawa
- Egyptian Arabic: كاناجاوا
- English: Kanagawa Prefecture
- Esperanto: Gubernio Kanagavo
- Esperanto: Gubernio Kanagaŭa
- Esperanto: Kanagaŭa-prefektujo
- Esperanto: Kanagaŭa
- Esperanto: Kanagaŭa prefektujo
- Estonian: Kanagawa prefektuur
- Finnish: Kanagawa
- Finnish: Kanagawan prefektuuri
- French: Kanagawa
- French: Préfecture de Kanagawa
- French: préfecture de Kanagawa
- Galician: Prefectura de Kanagawa
- Georgian: კანაგავა
- Georgian: კანაგავის პრეფექტურა
- German: JP-14
- German: Kanagawa
- German: Kanagawa-ken
- German: Präfektur Kanagawa
- Greek: Καναγκάβα
- Gujarati: કનાગાવા પ્રીફેકચર
- Hakka Chinese: Kanagawa-yen
- Hausa: Kanagawa-yen
- Hebrew: קנאגאווה
- Hindi: कानागावा प्रीफेक्चर
- Hungarian: Kanagava prefektúra
- Hungarian: Kanagawa prefektúra
- Iloko: Kanagawa
- Iloko: Prefectura ti Kanagawa
- Indonesian: Kanagawa
- Indonesian: Prefektur Kanagawa
- Irish: Maoracht Kanagawa
- Italian: Kanagawa
- Italian: prefettura di Kanagawa
- Japanese: Kanagawa-ken
- Japanese: かながわ
- Japanese: かながわけん
- Japanese: カナガワ
- Japanese: カナガワケン
- Japanese: 神奈川
- Japanese: 神奈川県
- Kannada: ಕನಗಾವಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Kanagabа
- Khmer: ខេត្តខាន់ណាហ្គាវ៉ា
- Khmer: អាណាខេត្ត កាន់ណាហ្គាវ៉ា
- Khmer: អាណាខេត្ត ខាន់ណាហ្គាវ៉ា
- Korean: 가나가와 현
- Korean: 가나가와현
- Korean: 카나가와현
- Korean: 카나가와 현
- Lao: Prepektura ti Kanagawa
- Latvian: Kanagavas prefektūra
- Literary Chinese: 神奈川縣
- Lithuanian: Kanagava
- Lithuanian: Kanagava prefektūra
- Lithuanian: Kanagavos prefektūra
- Lithuanian: Kanagawa prefektūra
- Macedonian: Канагава
- Malay: Kanagawa
- Malay: Wilayah Kanagawa
- Manipuri: ꯀꯥꯅꯥꯒꯥꯋꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ
- Marathi: कनागावा प्रांत
- Marathi: कानागावा
- Marathi: कानागावा प्रांत
- Min Dong Chinese: Kanagawa-gâing
- Min Nan Chinese: Kanagawa-koān
- Min Nan Chinese: Kanagawa-kōan
- Min Nan Chinese: Kanagawa Koān
- Mongolian: Канагава
- Mongolian: ꯀꯥꯅꯥꯒꯥꯋꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ
- Northern Frisian: Kanagawa (Prefektüür)
- Northern Frisian: Kanagawa
- Northern Sami: Kanagawa prefektuvra
- Norwegian: Kanagawa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kanagawa prefektur
- Norwegian Bokmål: Prefekturet Kanagawa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kanagawa prefektur
- Novial: Kanagawa Prefekture
- Occitan (post 1500): prefectura de Kanagawa
- Ossetian: Канагавæ
- Pampanga: Kanagawa Prefecture
- Pampanga: Prepektura ning Kanagawa
- Persian: استان كاناگاوا
- Persian: استان کاناگاوا
- Persian: کاناگاوا
- Polish: Kanagawa
- Polish: Prefektura Kanagawa
- Portuguese: Kanagawa
- Romanian: Kanagawa
- Romanian: Prefectura Kanagawa
- Russian: Канагава
- Scots: Kanagawa Prefectur
- Serbian: Prefektura Kanagava
- Serbian: Канагава
- Serbian: Префектура Канагава
- Serbo-Croatian: Kanagava
- Serbo-Croatian: Kanagawa
- Serbo-Croatian: Prefektura Kanagava
- Serbo-Croatian: Prefektura Kanagawa
- Sinhala: කනගාවා ප්රාන්තය
- Slovak: Kanagawa
- Slovenian: Prefektura Kanagava
- South Azerbaijani: کاناقاوا اوستانی
- Spanish: Kanagawa
- Spanish: Kanagawa Japon
- Spanish: Kanagawa Japón
- Spanish: Prefectura de Kanagawa
- Spanish: prefectura de Kanagawa
- Sundanese: Kanagawa Prefecture
- Swahili: Mkoa wa Kanagawa
- Swedish: Kanagawa
- Swedish: Kanagawa prefektur
- Tagalog: Kanagawa
- Tagalog: Kanagawa Prefecture
- Tagalog: Prepektura ng Kanagawa
- Tagalog: Prepekturang Kanagawa
- Tajik: Prefekturai Kanagava
- Tajik: Префектураи Канагава
- Tamil: கனகவா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்
- Tatar: Канагава (префектура)
- Tatar: Канагава
- Telugu: కనగావా ప్రిఫెక్చర్
- Thai: จังหวัดคานางาวะ
- Turkish: Kanagawa
- Turkish: Kanagawa ili
- Turkish: Kanagawa prefektörlüğü
- Ukrainian: Канагава
- Ukrainian: Канаґава
- Ukrainian: Префектура Канагава
- Ukrainian: Префектура Канаґава
- Urdu: کاناگاوا پریفیکچر
- Venetian: Prefetura de Kanagawa
- Vietnamese: Huyện Kanagawa
- Vietnamese: Kanagawa
- Vietnamese: Tỉnh Kanagawa
- Waray (Philippines): Kanagawa
- Waray (Philippines): Kanagawa Prefecture
- Welsh: Kanagawa
- Western Panjabi: ضلع کاناگاوا
- Wu Chinese: 神奈川县
- Yue Chinese: 神奈川县
- Yue Chinese: 神奈川縣
- Kanagawa Ken
- Prefettura di Kanagawa
- پارێزگای کاناگاوا
- ខេត្តខាណាហ្កាវ៉ា
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