Yonezawa: facts

At a glance

• Country: Japan
• Region: Yamagata
• Administrative status: seat of a second-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA2)
• Population: approximately 94,486
• Coordinates: 37.9100° N, 140.1167° E
• Time zone: Asia/Tokyo (UTC+09:00)
• Currency: Yen (JPY)
• Distance to the capital, Tokyo: 250 km (155 mi), straight line

Getting there

• Yamagata Airport (GAJ): 60 km (37 mi), straight line
• Sendai Airport (SDJ): 75 km (46 mi), straight line
• Fukushima Airport (FKS): 81 km (50 mi), straight line

Nearby

• Takahata: 12 km (8 mi)
• Nanyo: 15 km (9 mi)
• Nagai: 23 km (14 mi)
• Kaminoyama: 30 km (19 mi)
• Date: 35 km (22 mi)
• Nearest place with over 100,000 inhabitants: Fukushima, 36 km (22 mi)