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Kawasaki

Kawasaki, officially Kawasaki City, is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area.

Kawasaki
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The place

Kawasaki, officially Kawasaki City, is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. It is the second most populated city in Kanagawa Prefecture after Yokohama, and the eighth most populated city in Japan.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Kawasaki

Airports
Tokyo Haneda (HND), 9 km · Narita (NRT), 68 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 98 km
  • Narita → Kawasaki
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · ¥870–1,190
  • Omitama → Kawasaki
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · ¥1,220–1,670
  • Makinohara / Shimada → Kawasaki
    160 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · ¥2,190–2,990
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kawasaki

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundVelo taxis called "Cyclopolitain" (シクロポリタン, shikuroporitan) are widely available within the harbor area, while rickshaws make their rounds within Chinatown.

From Wikivoyage: Yokohama, 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

    1,205 km
  2. 02
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,307 km
  3. 03
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,568 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,948 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    2,145 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kawasaki

Kawasaki is 5 km from Ōta, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.