Tsubame: facts

At a glance

• Country: Japan
• Region: Niigata
• Administrative status: seat of a second-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA2)
• Population: approximately 77,382
• Coordinates: 37.6645° N, 138.9252° E
• Time zone: Asia/Tokyo (UTC+09:00)
• Currency: Yen (JPY)
• Distance to the capital, Tokyo: 230 km (143 mi), straight line

Getting there

• Niigata Airport (KIJ): 36 km (22 mi), straight line
• Sado Airport (SDS): 63 km (39 mi), straight line
• Fukushima Airport (FKS): 142 km (88 mi), straight line

Nearby

• Yoshida-kasugacho: 4.2 km (2.6 mi)
• Yonozu: 4.5 km (2.8 mi)
• Sanjo: 5.7 km (3.6 mi)
• Kamo: 9.7 km (6.0 mi)
• Maki: 10 km (6 mi)
• Nearest place with over 100,000 inhabitants: Nagaoka, 25 km (15 mi)