
Kashiwazaki
Japan
Kashiwazaki: facts
At a glance
- Country: Japan
- Region: Niigata
- Administrative status: seat of a second-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA2)
- Population: approximately 86,183
- Coordinates: 37.3667° N, 138.5500° E
- Time zone: Asia/Tokyo (UTC+09:00)
- Currency: Yen (JPY)
- Distance to the capital, Tokyo: 213 km (132 mi), straight line
Getting there
- Sado Airport (SDS): 78 km (48 mi), straight line
- Niigata Airport (KIJ): 82 km (51 mi), straight line
- Noto Satoyama Airport (NTQ): 141 km (87 mi), straight line
Nearby
- Ojiya: 23 km (14 mi)
- Nagaoka: 28 km (17 mi)
- Yoitamachi-yoita: 30 km (19 mi)
- Tokamachi: 32 km (20 mi)
- Joetsu: 37 km (23 mi)
- Nearest place with over 100,000 inhabitants: Nagaoka, 28 km (17 mi)
Coming up in Kashiwazaki
- 15 Nov 2026: 7-5-3 Day
- 23 Nov 2026: Labor Thanksgiving Day
- 25 Dec 2026: Christmas
- 31 Dec 2026: December 31 Bank Holiday
- 31 Dec 2026: Yasaka Shrine Okera Mairi
- 31 Dec 2026: Fushimi Inari Taisha Hatsumode
- 1 Jan 2027: New Year's Day
- 2 Jan 2027: January 2 Bank Holiday
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