Shizuoka
Shizuoka is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in both population and area.
Shizuoka is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in both population and area. It has been populated since prehistoric times. As of 1 September 2023, the city had an estimated population of 677,867 in 106,087 households, and a population density of 480 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,200/sq mi).
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Worth seeing in and around Shizuoka
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.
- 01Sunpu Castle
Sunpu Castle is a Japanese castle in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan. The sobriquet of this feudal fortress was the "Castle of the Floating Isle".
400 m · Japanese castle located in Shizuoka · Wikipedia - 02Nihondaira Observatory
Nihondaira Observatory is an astronomical observatory that is located on a hill overlooking Shimizu, Japan. It has been the source for numerous discoveries of minor planet by astronomer Takeshi Urata.
7.6 km · observatory in Japan · Wikipedia - 03IAI Stadium Nihondaira
IAI Stadium Nihondaira is a football stadium in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Japan. It is currently mostly used for football matches and has been the home stadium of the J-League's Shimizu S-Pulse since 1992.
9 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 04Kunōzan Tōshō-gū
The Kunōzan Tōshō-gū is a Shintō shrine in Suruga-ku in the city of Shizuoka in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is the original burial place of the first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and is thus the oldest of the Tōshō-gū shrines in the country.
7.8 km · Shinto shrine in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 05Shizuoka Sengen Shrine
Shizuoka Sengen Jinja is the name for a collective group of three Shinto shrines now forming a single religious corporation, located at Mount Shizuhata in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. These shrines are the Kanbe Jinja, Asama Jinja, and Ōtoshimioya Jinja.
1.1 km · Shinto shrine in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 06JCPM Yakiimo Station
The JCPM Yakiimo Station is an astronomical observatory station located in Shimizu, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. It has the following observatory code: IAU-Observatory, Code 885.
8.1 km · astronomical observatory in Japan · Wikipedia - 07Toro
Toro is an archaeological site in Suruga Ward in Shizuoka City, 130 kilometres southwest of Tokyo, Japan. The site contains the ruins of a settlement which dates to the 1st century CE, in the late Yayoi period.
3.2 km · archaeological site in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 08Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
The Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art is a prefectural museum in Shizuoka City, Japan, created in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the inauguration of the Shizuoka Prefectural Assembly.
6 km · art museum in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 09University of Shizuoka
The University of Shizuoka, is a public university in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
6.2 km · university in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 10Utsunoya Pass
The Utsunoya-tōge Pass is a mountain pass on the old Tōkaidō highway connecting eastern Japan with imperial capital of Kyoto. Located between former Mariko-juku in what is now Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, and Okabe-juku in what is now Fujieda, it is the only portion of the original Heian period road known to have survived to the present day, and a one kilometer stretch of the road was proclaimed a National Historic Site on February 22, 2010.
8.7 km · Japanese Mountain Pass · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shizuoka
- Airports
- Mount Fuji Shizuoka (FSZ), 27 km · Tokyo Haneda (HND), 143 km · Chubu Centrair (NGO), 144 km
- Stations
- Shizuoka Station, 700 m · Abekawa Station, 4.2 km · Higashi-Shizuoka Station, 3 km · Kusanagi Station, 6.2 km · Mochimune Station, 6.2 km
- Tokyo → Shizuoka142 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · ¥1,940–2,640
- Tokoname → Shizuoka141 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · ¥1,950–2,660
- Osaka → Shizuoka265 km · quickest by road, 5h 20m · ¥3,560–4,860
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shizuoka
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 Shizuoka. 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 Shizuoka – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Shizuoka
- Shizuoka Gakuen Schoolday school in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan1.3 km