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Kōriyama

Kōriyama is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

Kōriyama
Kōriyama · スミス1919 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Kōriyama is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2023, the city had an estimated population of 321,938 people in 141,760 households, and a population density of 425 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 757.20 square kilometers (292.36 sq mi). Kōriyama is designated as a core city and functions as a commercial center for Fukushima Prefecture. Kōriyama is the third largest conurbation in the Tōhoku region.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kōriyama

5 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
    Big-i

    The Big-i is a skyscraper located in Kōriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Construction of the 133-metre, 24-storey skyscraper was finished in 2001.

    2.5 km · Japanese skyscraper · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kōriyama City Museum of Art

    Kōriyama City Museum of Art opened in 1992 in Kōriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The collection includes works by Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, J. M. W. Turner, Edward Burne-Jones, and John William Waterhouse, as well as Japanese artists Shiba Kōkan, Takahashi Yuichi, Fujishima Takeji, and Kishida Ryūsei.

    5.4 km · museum in Japan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kōriyama Kaiseizan Athletic Stadium

    Kōriyama Kaiseizan Athletic Stadium is an athletic stadium in Kōriyama, Fukushima, Japan.

    300 m · building in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Koriyama West Soccer Stadium

    Kōriyama West Soccer Stadium is a soccer stadium in Kōriyama, Fukushima, Japan. It features natural turf but has no lighting.

    5.2 km · building in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Horaiya Koriyama General Gymnasium

    Horaiya Koriyama General Gymnasium is an arena in Kōriyama, Fukushima, Japan. It is the home arena of the Fukushima Firebonds of the B.League, Japan's professional basketball league.

    500 m · arena in Kōriyama, Fukushima, 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.

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Getting to Kōriyama

Airports
Sendai (SDJ), 96 km · Niigata (KIJ), 126 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 136 km
Stations
Kōriyama Station, 2.5 km · Gohyakugawa Station, 9.5 km · Asaka-Nagamori Station, 4.9 km · Akogashima Station, 9.1 km · Hiwada Station, 5.7 km
  • Natori → Kōriyama
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · ¥1,330–1,820
  • Niigata → Kōriyama
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · ¥1,800–2,460
  • Omitama → Kōriyama
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · ¥1,940–2,640
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kōriyama

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,091 km
  2. 02
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,231 km
  3. 03
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,748 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    2,121 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    2,288 km

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