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Kasugai

Kasugai is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

Kasugai
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The place

Kasugai is a city in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2019, the city had an estimated population of 306,764, and a population density of 3,306 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 92.78 square kilometres (35.82 sq mi). The city is sometimes called Owarikasugai to avoid confusion with other municipality of the same name, including Kasugai in Yamanashi Prefecture.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kasugai

7 places 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
    Nagoya Castle

    Nagoya Castle is a Japanese castle located in Nagoya, Japan. Nagoya Castle was constructed by the Owari Domain in 1612 during the Edo period on the site of an earlier castle of the Oda clan in the Sengoku period.

    9.6 km · Japanese castle located in Nagoya, central Japan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Nagoya

    The Diocese of Nagoya is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church that is centered in the city of Nagoya and is part of the ecclesiastical province of Osaka in Japan.

    9.4 km · diocese of the Catholic Church · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mount Komaki

    Mount Komaki is an 86 m-high mountain located in the city of Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At one point, the mountain was topped with the original Komakiyama Castle, built by Oda Nobunaga.

    7.4 km · mountain in Aichi Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tokugawa Art Museum

    The Tokugawa Art Museum is a private art museum, located on the former Ōzone Shimoyashiki compound in Nagoya, central Japan. Its collection contains more than 12,000 items, including swords, armor, Noh costumes and masks, lacquer furniture, Chinese and Japanese ceramics, calligraphy, and paintings from the Chinese Song and Yuan dynasties.

    7.9 km · art museum in Nagoya City, Aichi, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Nagoya Dome

    The Nagoya Dome, known as Vantelin Dome Nagoya for sponsorship reasons, is a domed baseball stadium, constructed in 1997, located in the city of Nagoya, Japan. The dome has the capacity of 36,418 for sports and 49,000 for concerts.

    7.2 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens

    The Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens is a joint zoo and botanical garden located at Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan. It is open every day except Monday, and charges a modest admission fee.

    9.9 km · municipal zoo and botanical garden in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Tagata Shrine

    Tagata Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture. It is famous for its Hōnensai, popularly referred to as the Penis Festival, which is held annually on March 15.

    8.1 km · Shinto shrine in Aichi Prefecture, Japan · 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.

Go there

Getting to Kasugai

Airports
Chubu Centrair (NGO), 46 km · Mount Fuji Shizuoka (FSZ), 122 km · Komatsu / JASDF Komatsu Air Base (KMQ), 137 km
Stations
Nagoya Airfield, 4.4 km · Fujigaoka Station, 8.6 km · Kachigawa Station, 2.4 km · Chikusa Station, 9.4 km · Kōzōji Station, 6.7 km
  • Tokoname → Kasugai
    41 km · quickest by road, 56 min · ¥510–690
  • Osaka → Kasugai
    148 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · ¥1,960–2,670
  • Makinohara / Shimada → Kasugai
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · ¥1,640–2,240
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kasugai

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 Kasugai. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA Meitetsu shuttle bus to the ferry is available from the downtown Meitetsu Bus Center (名鉄バスセンター) next to Nagoya Station.
  • Get inThe bus departs from platform 22 on the 4th floor at 17:20 and arrives at the ferry terminal at around 17:55 (Adults: ¥550 Children: ¥280).
  • Get inThe ferry terminal is also accessible by train and city bus.
  • Get inMore details are available on the Taiheiyo Ferry access page.
  • Go nextInuyama, with its picturesque castle, kinky fertility shrines, and nearby Meiji Village, is a short day trip from the city.

From Wikivoyage: Nagoya, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    975 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,362 km
  3. 03
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,398 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,735 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,909 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kasugai

Kasugai is 9 km from Nagoya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Nagoyacapital city of Aichi prefecture, Japan9.5 km
  • Komakicity in Aichi prefecture, Japan7.3 km
  • Iwakuracity in Aichi prefecture, Japan9.8 km
  • Owariasahicity in Aichi prefecture, Japan6.7 km
  • Kitanagoyacity in Aichi prefecture, Japan9.7 km
  • Nagakutecity in Aichi prefecture, Japan9.9 km