The city is sometimes called the "City of Water" (水の都, Mizu-no-miyako) because of the two rivers that flow through it, its position next to the Japan Sea, its many wetlands, and the canals that used to run through the city.
Grad se ponekad naziva "Grad vode" (水 の 都 Mizu-no-Miyako) zbog dvije rijeke koje teku kroz njega, njegove pozicija uz Japansko mora, brojnih močvara te kanala koji se koriste za promet kroz grad.