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Yoichi

town in Yoichi district, Hokkaidō, Japan
City Town of Japan Q1348748

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
town of Japan
Inception
July 1, 1900[14]
Official website
www.town.yoichi.hokkaido.jp[15]
Native label
余市町[22]
Official name
余市町[20]

Location

Country
Japan[5]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 43.195°, 140.784°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Yoichi district, Hokkaido[2][3][4]
Shares border with
Otaru, Akaigawa, Niki, Furubira[6][7][8][9]

Population and size

Area
140.59 km² (2021)[25]
Population
21k (18k–21k, n=4)[16][17][18][19]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 18,252 · 20,353 · 19,607 · 21,258 GeoNames 20,459 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code
046-8546[13]
More facts +5
Associated electoral district
Hokkaido 4th district (1994–present)[26]
Different from
Yoichi distillery[24]
Legal form
ordinary local public entity[21]
Name in kana
よいちちょう[23]
Twinned administrative body
East Dunbartonshire (1988–present), Gojō (2015–present), Aizuwakamatsu (2015–present)[10][11][12]
🏷️ Also known as
en Yoichi ar يواتشي ar يواشي cs Joiči fa یوایچی، هوکایدو hu Joicsi ja 余市町 ko 요이치정 ru Ёити ru Йоити th โยอิจิ uk Йоїті uk Йоїчі
🔖 Identifiers · 23
VIAF cluster ID
131381643
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n82256685
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
余市川 - panoramio.jpg ↗
Corporate Number (Japan)
9000020014087
Dantai code
014087
Facebook username
312326375954146
Freebase ID
/m/051b5d
GNS Unique Feature ID
-236,504
GeoLOD ID
2cn7gH
GeoNLP ID (obsolete)
nPnKsv
GeoNames ID
2127438, 2129218
Geoshape Repository municipality ID
01408A1968
Show all 23 identifiers +11
INaturalist place ID
33890
J9U entity ID
987007559844205171
MusicBrainz area ID
83dbb566-6c97-4066-a5f2-1cd42f1e071d
NDL Authority ID
00309126
OpenCorporates organization ID
jp/9000020014087
OpenStreetMap relation ID
4085871
Topic's main category
Category:Yoichi, Hokkaido
UN/LOCODE
JPYIC
Who's on First ID
890519435
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJfh8d4dXGrd876P7qgtKd
Yale LUX ID
place/80715306-0cb9-427b-85b9-978de0081aa1

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🔗 Connections
People born here 7
Kazuyoshi Funaki, Yukio Kasaya, Mamoru Mohri, Hiroya Saito, Hirokazu Yagi, Masahiro Akimoto, Takashi Fujisawa
Shares border with 4
Otaru, Akaigawa, Furubira, Niki
← Shares border with 4
Otaru, Akaigawa, Furubira, Niki
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Yoichi district
Twinned administrative body 3
Aizuwakamatsu, East Dunbartonshire, Gojō
Contained subdivisions 2
Yoichi Station, Shiribeshi Expressway
Associated electoral district 1
Hokkaido 4th district
Country 1
Japan
Instance of 1
town of Japan
Located in time zone 1
UTC+09:00
Named after 1
5176 Yoichi
People who died here 1
Rita Taketsuru
Topic's main category 1
Category:Yoichi, Hokkaido
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Yoichi, Hokkaido
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Yoichi district
← FactGrid item ID 1
Munstergeleen
← Place of burial 1
Masataka Taketsuru
← Twinned administrative body 1
East Dunbartonshire
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Summary

Yoichi is a town of Japan[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Yoichi include 5176 Yoichi[27], an asteroid[28].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Yoichi include 5176 Yoichi[27], an asteroid[28].

Related Entities

Japan

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [4] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . pref.hokkaido.lg.jp. Retrieved . pref.hokkaido.lg.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved . e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . e-stat.go.jp. Retrieved . e-stat.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . gsi.go.jp. gsi.go.jp. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · Kugelschreibers · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Geoshape Repository municipality ID → 01408A1968
    "Created claim: Geoshape Repository municipality ID: 01408A1968"
  2. 13w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Associated electoral district → Hokkaido 4th district
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Shiribeshi Subprefecture, Yoichi district, Hokkaido
    Official website → https://www.town.yoichi.hokkaido.jp/
    Coordinate location → 43.195°, 140.784°
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #46950: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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