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Matsue. Matsue (Japanese: 松江市, Hepburn: Matsue-shi) is the capital city of Shimane Prefecture, Japan, located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. [ 1 ][ 2 ] As of 31 March 2023 [update], the city had an estimated population of 196,748 in 91287 households and a population density of 340 persons per km². [ 3 ]
The Sarugahana Cave is a large sea erosion cave located on the cliffs facing the Nakaumi on the southern coast of the Shimane Peninsula; it consists of four large and small caves. The largest is Cave 1, which is about 60 meters deep and about 5 meters high and wide. From well-preserved stratigraphic layers in this cave, early to late fragments ...
1607–1611 ; 413 years ago. Built by. Horio Yoshiharu. Matsue Castle (松江城, Matsue-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture. Matsue Castle was constructed from 1607 to 1611 by Horio Yoshiharu, the first daimyō of the Matsue Domain, during the early Edo period. Ownership was passed to the Izumo branch of the ...
The nine national treasures on this list are distributed over five castles as follows: Himeji Castle has five national treasure structures; Hikone Castle, Inuyama Castle, Matsue Castle and Matsumoto Castle each have one. Three main types of castles exist. Generally the types are characterised according to the topography of the castle's site and ...
It was built from 1997 to 2004, and it is the largest rigid-frame bridge in Japan and the third largest in the world. [1] Images of the bridge have been widely circulated on the internet, owing to its seemingly steep nature when photographed from a distance with a telephoto lens , but in actuality, it has a less pronounced, 6.1% gradient in the ...
The Izumo Kokubun-ji (出雲国分寺) was a Buddhist temple located in the Chikuya-cho neighborhood of city of Matsue, Shimane, Japan.It was one of the Nara period kokubunji National Temples established by Emperor Shōmu for the purpose of promoting Buddhism as the national religion of Japan and standardising control of the imperial rule to the provinces. [1]
Shimane Prefecture is the second-least populous prefecture of Japan at 665,205 (February 1, 2021) and has a geographic area of 6,708.26 km 2. Shimane Prefecture borders Yamaguchi Prefecture to the southwest, Hiroshima Prefecture to the south, and Tottori Prefecture to the east. Matsue is the capital and largest city of Shimane Prefecture, with ...
Matsue Station was opened on 8 November 1908 when the line was extended from Yasugi Station on the Japan Government Railways. The line was further extended to Shinji Station on 12 October 1908. With the privatization of the Japan National Railway (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the aegis of the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).