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Shirogane, Fukuoka — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Shirogane runs across two chōme of Fukuoka as 白金一丁目及び二丁目, packed in tight against Ōmiya and Takasago.
About Shirogane
Where to stay in Shirogane
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Ōmiya stands closest of all, barely a street from Shirogane, and Takasago follows within the same few minutes on foot, which makes the district feel less like a base of its own than like one block of a larger neighbourhood. Hiraokamachi lies about as far as Yakuin. Watanabe-dōri is closer. You get short distances rather than a famous address, with Kiyokawa, Haruyoshi and Imaizumi each an easy walk from 白金一丁目及び二丁目.
About Shirogane
What are the main landmarks in Shirogane?
Shirogane registers nothing. No landmark appears inside 白金一丁目及び二丁目, so anyone staying here looks outward, and the nearest named ground belongs to Ōmiya, Takasago and Kiyokawa rather than to the district itself. Yakuin, Imaizumi and Haruyoshi extend that reach a little further.
Two chōme under one heading is the whole of what the register grants Shirogane, and the streets carry the name without a monument to hang it on.
What is the history of Shirogane?
Shirogane comes into the record as a pair of numbered chōme and nothing more, with 白金一丁目及び二丁目 standing for both halves and no year given for either. Fukuoka holds it. Above the city sit Fukuoka Prefecture and Japan, and at the same level as Shirogane sit Ōmiya, Takasago and Kiyokawa, each a district set down the same way.
What survives of an older Shirogane, if anything did, the file does not say.
Where is Shirogane?
Shirogane fills two chōme of Fukuoka wedged among Ōmiya, Takasago and Kiyokawa, in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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Updated August 2026