Saitama
Saitama is the capital and largest city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
Saitama is the capital and largest city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Its area incorporates the former cities of Urawa, Ōmiya, Yono and Iwatsuki. It is a city designated by government ordinance. As of 1 February 2021, the city had an estimated population of 1,324,854, and a population density of 6,093 people per km2. Its total area is 217.43 square kilometres (83.95 sq mi).
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Saitama
4 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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- 02Saitama Super Arena
Multi-purpose indoor arena located in Chūō-ku, Saitama City, Saitama, Japan
4 km · Wikipedia - 03
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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 Saitama
- Airports
- Tokyo Haneda (HND), 37 km · Narita (NRT), 68 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 78 km
- Stations
- Ōmiya Station, 5.4 km · Wakōshi Station, 8.6 km · Kawaguchi Station, 9.3 km · Warabi Station, 5.5 km · Kita-Urawa Station, 1.2 km
- Narita → Saitama61 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · ¥990–1,350
- Omitama → Saitama73 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · ¥1,030–1,410
- Makinohara / Shimada → Saitama180 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · ¥2,600–3,540
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Saitama
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 Saitama. 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 Saitama – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Saitama
Saitama is 9 km from Kawaguchi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.