Kumamoto
Worth seeing in and around Kumamoto
10 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.
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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.
Getting to Kumamoto
- Airports
- Kumamoto (KMJ), 16 km · Kyushu Saga (HSG), 53 km · Nagasaki (NGS), 74 km
- Stations
- Kumamoto Station, 1.9 km · Kami-Kumamoto Station, 1.5 km · Kawashiri Station, 7 km · Heisei Station, 2.9 km · Sōjōdaigakumae Station, 2.8 km
- Saga → Kumamoto60 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · ¥900–1,230
- Nagasaki → Kumamoto76 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · ¥1,850–2,520
- Fukuoka → Kumamoto92 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · ¥1,170–1,590
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kumamoto
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 Kumamoto. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you're coming from Nagasaki, the ferry may be preferable.
- Get inOne ferry route involves travelling via Shimabara.
- Get inTwo ferries depart towards Kumamoto from different ports along this line but the most convenient is likely the one from Shimabara Port direct to Kumamoto Port.
- Get inIncidentally, the final Kumamoto-bound ferries depart daily at 20:00, but one of the trains to Shimabara arrives a few minutes after that so don't get caught out.
- Go nextAmakusa, a chain of islands off the west coast of Kumamoto, and not far from the south coast of Nagasaki (to which ferries run regularly).
From Wikivoyage: Kumamoto, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.
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Next door to Kumamoto
Kumamoto is 6 km from Kotō, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kashimatown in Kamimashiki district, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan9.5 km
- Nishi-kuone of the five wards of the City of Kumamoto, Japan5.3 km
- Higashi-kuone of the five wards of the City of Kumamoto, Japan7.7 km
- Chūō-kuone of the five wards of the City of Kumamoto, Japan1.5 km
- Akitadissolved municipality in Hōtaku district, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan6.7 km
- Tenmeidissolved municipality in Hōtaku district, Kumamoto prefecture, Japan9.6 km