EPSG systems

EPSG:5132 Tokyo 1892

Geographic system in latitude and longitude, in use: Asia - Japan and Korea. Datum, ellipsoid and transformation to WGS 84 below.

EPSG publishes no simple transformation to WGS 84 for this datum: conversion works on the ellipsoid alone and can be off by tens of metres.

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System record
Code	EPSG:5132
Name	Tokyo 1892
Type	Geographic system
Area of use	Asia - Japan and Korea Japan - onshore; North Korea - onshore; South Korea - onshore.
Bounds	W 122,83° · S 20,37° · E 154,05° · N 45,54°
Countries	Japan, North Korea, South Korea
Datum	Tokyo 1892
Ellipsoid	Bessel 1841 a = 6377397.155 m · 1/f = 299.1528128
Unit	degree (Lat north, Lon east)
Transformation to WGS 84	No simple transformation published (ellipsoid alone)
Scope	Geodesy.

proj4 definition

+proj=longlat +ellps=bessel +no_defs

Paste it into QGIS, proj4js, PostGIS (spatial_ref_sys) or GDAL. +towgs84 carries the EPSG transformation to WGS 84; the official code stays EPSG:5132.

WKT (ESRI format, the .prj content)

GEOGCS["Tokyo_1892",DATUM["Tokyo_1892",SPHEROID["Bessel_1841",6377397.155,299.1528128]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]

All systems — Japan

Source: EPSG registry v11.022 (IOGP), through the PROJ database. Always check a code on epsg.org before contractual work.

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WKT (ESRI format, the .prj content)

Other systems — Japan