Asuka

Asuka may refer to:

People

• Asuka (name), a list of people
• Asuka (wrestler), professional wrestler
• Asuka (wrestler, born 1998), professional wrestler also known as Veny outside of Japan

Places

In Japan

• Asuka, Yamato (飛鳥), an area in Yamato Province (now Nara Prefecture) in Japan, where imperial palaces and centers of government were built in the 6th and 7th centuries
• Asuka, Nara (明日香), a village in Nara Prefecture in Japan, in the same area as ancient Asuka (飛鳥)
  • Asuka-dera (飛鳥寺), also known as Hōkō-ji (法興寺), a Buddhist temple in Asuka, Nara
• Asukayama Park (飛鳥山公園), a park in Kita, Tokyo, Japan

Outside of Japan

• Asuka, Estonia, a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, Estonia
• Asuka Station (Antarctica)

Ships

• MS Asuka (now MS Amadea), a cruise ship operated by Nippon Yusen Kaisha from 1991–2006
• MS Asuka II, a cruise ship operated by Nippon Yusen Kaisha from 2006 onwards

Popular media

• Asuka (album), by the traditional/pop-rock group Rin'
• Asuka (magazine), a Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Kadokawa

Fictional entities

• Asuka Clan, a group of elite ninja in the Shinobido video game series
• Asuka Kudō, a character from Problem Children Are Coming from Another World, Aren't They?
• Asuka Langley Soryu, a character of the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise

Other uses

• Asuka period (飛鳥時代), a Japanese era from 538 to 710 AD
• Asuka, a subsidiary of the French manga publisher Kazé

See also

• Aska (disambiguation)
• Capital of Japan
• All pages with titles beginning with Asuka
• All pages with titles containing Asuka