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Town in Ondo State, Nigeria

Ikare

Ikare is a city in the northern senatorial part of Ondo State, Nigeria.

Ikare
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The place

Ikare is a city in the northern senatorial part of Ondo State, Nigeria.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ikare

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Adekunle Ajasin University

    Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko is a public university owned and operated by the government of Ondo State, Nigeria. The university is located in Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria.

    4.2 km · public university in Akungba-Akoko, Nigeria · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Kamp Ikare is a beach resort on a stretch of Lagos coast near Ikare village and it’s only accessible by boat. The resort is a main communal beach house, 6 duplex cabins positioned around a swimming pool and just meters from the sea.

From Wikivoyage: Ikare, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

New yam festival: New yam festival is the chief festival in Ikare and is celebrated annually on June 20th. During the festival, Ikare sons and daughters both home and abroad will come together to celebrate what is usually termed the starting point of a new year for Ikare land. The festival also features Masquerade parade, such as Oke, Seeru, GanGan among others.

From Wikivoyage: Ikare, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Otolo Restaurant located after military checkpoint, before Male Hostel, along, Ikare Road. It opens daily 9:30AM-8PM. Chicken Republic at Ikare-Akoko. It opens daily 7AM-10PM.

From Wikivoyage: Ikare, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Ikare

Airports
General Tunde Idiagbon (ILR), 172 km · Asaba (ABB), 178 km · Akanu Ibiam (ENU), 231 km
  • Ilorin/Ogbomosho → Ikare
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 57m · ₦12,650–16,900
  • Asaba → Ikare
    183 km · quickest by road, 4h 29m · ₦15,900–21,200
  • Enegu → Ikare
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ikare

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ikare. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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If you know how people move in Ikare – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ikare

Ikare is 54 km from Okene, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Akungba Akokoa town in Ondo State, south-western Nigeria5.1 km
  • Akungbais a town in Ondo State located in southwestern Nigeria4.9 km