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Wakayama (prefecture) ​(和 歌 山(ja))
Information
Country	Japan
Region	Kansai
Regional capital	Wakayama
Area	4 725,67 km²
Population	910 687 hab. (1er March 2021)
Density	192,71 inhab./km²
Spindle	UTC 09:00, Japan Standard Time
Location
33 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ N 135 ° 39 ′ 36 ″ E
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Wakayama is a prefecture japanese, located in the south of the Kansai, on Honshū, the largest island in Japan.

Understand

Cities

• 34.2333135.16661 Wakayama (和 歌 山)  – The capital. (last update Feb. 2018)
• 33.838139135.7731112 Hongū (本 宮)  – A small mountain town surrounded by three famous onsen. (last update Feb. 2018)
• Kainan  (last update Feb. 2018)
• Kinokawa  (last update Feb. 2018)
• 33.466667135.7833333 Kushimoto (串 本)  – A town at the southern tip of Honshū. (last update Feb. 2018)
• 33.633333135.9333334 Nachikatsuura (那 智 勝浦)  – Mount Nachi and Katsuura onsen. (last update Feb. 2018)
• 33.678139135.3481115 Shirahama (白 浜)  – Shirahama Onsen and Nanki-Shirahama Airport; its beach is crowded with tourists every summer. The water is clear and there are a lot of hotels near the beach. (last update Feb. 2018)
• Shingu  (last update Feb. 2018)
• Tanabe  (last update Feb. 2018)

Other destinations

• 34.2125135.586391 Mount Kōya (高 野山)  – A town of many monasteries on top of a mountain, the center of mystical Shingon Buddhism, and the place where Japan's largest and strangest cemetery stands in a cedar forest. (last update Feb. 2018)
• 3 Kumano Kodō shrines (熊 野 古道)  – Sanctuaries Kumanohayatama, Kumanonachi and Kumanonimasu are part of the sites of Unesco World Heritage. (last update Feb. 2018)

To speak

To go

By train

The main hub is Wakayama, at about 1 h south ofOsaka, or to 2 h of Kyoto with the limited express train Koroshio.

Circulate

By train

A train line runs near the south coast. The other train lines have more rare services.

To see

Do

Underwater postal services A underwater mailbox (す さ み 海 中 郵 便 ポ ス ト Susami Kaichū Yūbin-Posto) is at a depth of 10 m off the coast of Susami, Wakayama, and is certified as "the letterbox lowest under the sea" in the Guinness Book of World Records 2002. Special plastic postcards (150 JPY (~1,15 € - course of 04/27/2021) (~ 1.27 Fr. - price of 04/27/2021) (~ C $ 1.72 - class on 04/27/2021) (~ $ 1.39 - class on 04/27/2021) (~ 752.29 F CFA - price of 04/27/2021) for Japan, 350 JPY (~2,68 € - course of 04/27/2021) (~ 2.96 Fr. - price of 04/27/2021) (~ C $ 4.01 - class on 04/27/2021) (~ $ 3.23 - class on 04/27/2021) (~ 1 755.33 F CFA - price of 04/27/2021) for international) are available; divers mail nearly 200 missives a day at the height of the summer season. The mailbox operates from April to September.

To buy

Eat

Have a drink / Go out

Housing

Around

• Ise (伊 勢) (accessible by train) – Small town in the prefecture of Mie housing the most important Shinto shrine. (last update Feb. 2018)