Wakamiya

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Wakamiya may refer to:

Places

  • Wakamiya, Fukuoka, a town located in Kurate District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan that in 2006, along with the town of Miyata (also from Kurate District), was merged to create the city of Miyawaka
  • Wakamiya Station, a railway station on the Tadami Line in the town of Aizubange, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
  • Keta Wakamiya Shrine, a Shinto shrine located in the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan also commonly referred to as "Sugimoto-sama"
  • Wakamiya Ōji, a 1.8 km street in Kamakura, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan, unusual because it is at the same time the city's main avenue and the approach (sandō (参道)) of its largest Shinto shrine, Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū

People

  • Kenji Wakamiya (born 1961), Japanese politician, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).

Ships and carriers

  • Japanese seaplane carrier Wakamiya, a seaplane carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the first Japanese aircraft carrier. Converted from a transport ship in 1914. she was stricken in 1931
  • Japanese escort ship Wakamiya, an Etorofu-class escort ship launched in 1943 and sunk the same year
  • Wakamiya-maru, a Japanese cargo ship whose crew members became the first Japanese to circumnavigate the globe after their ship went off course after getting caught in a storm en route from Ishinomaki in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan to Edo (now Tokyo) in November 1793.