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Esashi

town in Hiyama district, Hokkaido, Japan
Place town_of_japan Q1348738

Facts

21 properties
Instance of
town of Japan
Inception
July 1, 1900[8]
Country
Japan[3]
Official website
www.hokkaido-esashi.jp[9]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 41.869°, 140.127°
Capital of
Hiyama Subprefecture[14]
Area
+109.48[18]
Associated electoral district
Hokkaido 8th district[19]
Coordinates of easternmost point
🗺️ 41.975°, 140.261°
Coordinates of northernmost point
🗺️ 41.977°, 140.260°
Coordinates of southernmost point
🗺️ 41.810°, 140.201°
Coordinates of westernmost point
🗺️ 41.863°, 140.110°
Different from
Esashi, Esashi[17]
Legal form
ordinary local public entity[15]
Located in or next to body of water
Sea of Japan[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Hiyama district[2]
Name in kana
えさしちょう[16]
P14812
01361A1968[20]
Population
9.0k (7.3k–9.0k, n=3)[10][11][12]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 7,310 · 8,248 · 9,004 GeoNames 8,579 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Replaces
Tomari[13]
Shares border with
Kaminokuni, Assabu, Otobe[5][6][7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Esashi ar إساشي cs Esaši fa اساشی، هوکایدو hu Eszasi id Esashi, Hokkaido (Hiyama) ja 江差町 ko 에사시정 ru Эсаси th เอซาชิ tr Esashi, Hiyama uk Есасі vi Esashi, Hokkaidō zh 江差町公所
🔖 Identifiers · 14
VIAF cluster ID
159441488
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
江差町 - panoramio.jpg ↗
Corporate Number (Japan)
1000020013617
Dantai code
013617
Freebase ID
/m/0519h6
GNS Unique Feature ID
-227100
GeoLOD ID
DwoE89
GeoNLP ID (obsolete)
PHU9R6
GeoNames ID
2130363
NDL Authority ID
00278450
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007561930605171
OpenCorporates ID
jp/1000020013617
Show all 14 identifiers +2
OpenStreetMap relation ID
4088029
Topic's main category
Category:Esashi, Hokkaido (Hiyama)

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🔗 Connections
← Terminus location 6
Japan National Route 227, Hakodate-Esashi Expressway, Japan National Route 228, Japan National Route 229, Japan National Route 276, Japan National Route 277
Contained subdivisions 3
Kamome Island, Esashi Station, Hakodate-Esashi Expressway
Shares border with 3
Kaminokuni, Otobe, Assabu
← Shares border with 3
Kaminokuni, Otobe, Assabu
Different from 2
Esashi, Esashi
← Different from 2
Esashi, Esashi
Associated electoral district 1
Hokkaido 8th district
Capital of 1
Hiyama Subprefecture
Country 1
Japan
Instance of 1
town of Japan
Located in or next to body of water 1
Sea of Japan
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Hiyama district
Located in time zone 1
UTC+09:00
Named after 1
9368 Esashi
Topic's main category 1
Category:Esashi, Hokkaido (Hiyama)
← Capital 1
Hiyama Subprefecture
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Esashi, Hokkaido (Hiyama)
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Hiyama district
← FactGrid item ID 1
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Summary

Esashi is a town of Japan[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Esashi include 9368 Esashi[21], an asteroid[22].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Esashi include 9368 Esashi[21], an asteroid[22].

Related Entities

Japan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . pref.hokkaido.lg.jp. Retrieved . pref.hokkaido.lg.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved . e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved . e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . gsi.go.jp. gsi.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · Kugelschreibers · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14812 → 01361A1968
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14812: 01361A1968"
  2. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46950|batch #46950]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 24w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Different from → Esashi, Esashi
    Official website → https://www.hokkaido-esashi.jp/
    Aliases → —
    + 26 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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