Otsu

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Otsu

Total population

340,973

Coordinates35.02°, 135.85°

Demographic figures from Statistics Bureau of Japan. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Ōtsu is the capital city of Shiga Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2021, the city had an estimated population of 343,991 in 153,458 households and a population density of 740 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 464.51 square kilometres (179.35 sq mi).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Naoyuki Shimizu

baseball player

Shinran

Japanese Buddhist monk and founder of the Jōdo Shinshū sect (1173–1263)

Bunmei Ibuki

Japanese politician

Ryuzaburo Umehara

Japanese artist (1888-1986)

Keiji Sada

Japanese actor（1926 - 1964）

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Hachirō Tatsumi

Japanese boxer (1929–2002)

Reiko Dan

actress (1935-2003)

Sumiko Hidaka

actress (1923-2002)

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Song Il-soo

Zainichi Korean baseball player

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Yūtarō Shimode

Japanese poet

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Tameyoshi Kubo

Japanese screenwriter (1906-1942)

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Hisashi Hisaki

Japanese historian

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Yoshihiro Kuno

Japanese psychologist (1937-2017)

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Mai Kujō

Japanese stage actress

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Masako Inui

Japanese seiyū

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Ken Nikai

Japanese screenwriter and film director

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

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