Okayama, Chūgoku Region, Japan
🇯🇵 Okayama (岡山市) is the capital city of Okayama Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan. The city was founded on June 1, 1889. The total area is 789.88 square km (304.97 square miles).
The city is the site of Kōraku-en, known as one of the top three traditional gardens in Japan, and Okayama Castle, which is ranked among the best 100 Japanese castles.
Agriculture The city is located in the Okayama Plain, where rice, eggplant, and white Chinese chives are notable products. White peaches and grapes are cultivated in the mountainous, northern part of the city.
Economy: Industry In 2005, the city's gross domestic product was 800 billion yen, nearly 10% of the GDP of Okayama Prefecture. Greater Okayama, Okayama Metropolitan Employment Area, has a GDP of US$63.1 billion as of 2010. The main industries are machine tools, chemicals, foodstuffs and printing. Kōnan, a district in the southern part of the city, is the most developed industrial zone.
Commerce Okayama is the core of the Okayama metropolitan area, which includes the cities of Kurashiki and Sōja. The main commercial district is Omotechō, near Okayama Castle and Kōraku-en, and the area surrounding Okayama Station. Omotechō has many covered shopping arcades.
The headquarters of Aeon Corporation, a private English language school with more than 3,000 employees, is located in Okayama.
Asia/Tokyo/Okayama
Okayama was ranked #1253 by the Nomad List which evaluates and ranks remote work hubs by cost, internet, fun and safety. Okayama has a population of over 720,841 people. Okayama also forms the centre of the wider Okayama Prefecture which has a population of over 1,906,464 people.
To set up a UBI Lab for Okayama see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork
Okayama is a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network for Literature see: https://en.unesco.org/creative-cities
Twin Towns, Sister Cities Okayama has links with:
🇰🇷 Bucheon, South Korea 🇹🇼 Hsinchu, Taiwan 🇨🇳 Luoyang, China 🇻🇳 Ninh Bình, Vietnam 🇮🇳 Pimpri-Chinchwad, India 🇧🇬 Plovdiv, Bulgaria 🇮🇳 Pune, India 🇺🇸 San Antonio, USA 🇨🇷 San José, Costa Rica 🇺🇸 San José, USAUNESCO Creative Cities for Literature include: 🇫🇷 Angoulême 🇮🇶 Baghdad 🇪🇸 Barcelona 🇱🇧 Beirut 🇩🇪 Bremen 🇰🇷 Bucheon 🇿🇦 Buffalo City 🇮🇪 Dublin 🇳🇿 Dunedin 🇿🇦 Durban 🏴 Edinburgh 🏴 Exeter 🇪🇸 Granada 🇩🇪 Heidelberg 🇦🇺 Hobart 🇷🇴 Iași 🇺🇸 Iowa City 🇮🇳 Kozhikode 🇵🇱 Kraków 🇫🇮 Kuhmo 🇬🇪 Kutaisi 🇵🇰 Lahore 🇳🇱 Leeuwarden 🇳🇴 Lillehammer 🇸🇮 Ljubljana 🇺🇦 Lviv 🇫🇷 Lyon 🏴 Manchester 🇦🇺 Melbourne 🇮🇹 Milan 🇺🇾 Montevideo 🇨🇳 Nanjing 🏴 Norwich 🏴 Nottingham 🇵🇹 Óbidos 🇺🇦 Odessa 🇯🇵 Okayama 🇨🇿 Prague 🇨🇦 Québec City 🇮🇸 Reykjavík 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro 🇺🇸 Seattle 🇮🇶 Slemani 🇮🇶 Sulaymaniyah 🇸🇦 Taif 🇪🇪 Tartu 🇱🇻 Tukums 🇷🇺 Ulyanovsk 🇳🇱 Utrecht 🇰🇷 Wonju
Locations Near: Okayama 133.916,34.651
🇯🇵 Kurashiki 133.77,34.605 d: 14.3
🇯🇵 Tamano 133.933,34.483 d: 18.7
🇯🇵 Sōja 133.733,34.667 d: 16.8
🇯🇵 Takamatsu 134.05,34.35 d: 35.7
🇯🇵 Sakaide 133.867,34.317 d: 37.4
🇯🇵 Marugame 133.8,34.283 d: 42.2
🇯🇵 Tsuyama 134.007,35.062 d: 46.5
🇯🇵 Mitoyo 133.7,34.167 d: 57.4
Antipodal to: Okayama -46.084,-34.651
🇧🇷 Rio Grande -52.099,-32.041 d: 19385.7
🇧🇷 Viamão -51.023,-30.088 d: 19327.9
🇧🇷 Gravataí -50.983,-29.933 d: 19317.3
🇧🇷 Criciúma -49.372,-28.678 d: 19281.8
🇧🇷 Alvorada -51.079,-30.001 d: 19317
🇧🇷 Tubarão -49,-28.467 d: 19274.1
🇧🇷 Cachoeirinha -51.083,-29.95 d: 19312.4
🇧🇷 Pelotas -52.341,-31.763 d: 19350.4
🇧🇷 Porto Alegre -51.229,-30.028 d: 19309.7