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Tokorozawa

Tokorozawa is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

Tokorozawa
Tokorozawa · eien20 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

Tokorozawa is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 343,298 in 168,939 households and a population density of 4761 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 72.11 square kilometres (27.84 sq mi).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tokorozawa

7 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
    Musashino Art University

    Musashino Art University or Musabi is a private university in Kodaira, Western Tokyo, founded in 1962 with roots going back to 1929. It is known as one of the leading art universities in Japan.

    8.4 km · university in Kodaira, western Tokyo · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Seibu Dome

    Belluna Dome ) is a baseball stadium located in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan. It is home to the Saitama Seibu Lions, a professional baseball team.

    5.6 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tsuda University

    Tsuda University is a private women's university based at Kodaira, Tokyo. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious higher educational institutions for women in Japan, contributing to the advancement of women in society for more than a century.

    8.6 km · women's university, Kodaira, Tokyo · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tokorozawa Aviation Museum

    The Tokorozawa Aviation Museum is a museum located in the city of Tokorozawa, Saitama, dedicated to the history of aviation in Japan. It contains aircraft and other displays and an IMAX theatre.

    300 m · museum in Saitama Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Shōfuku-ji Temple

    Shōfuku-ji is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple in Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan.

    4 km · Buddhist temple in Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kunitachi College of Music

    The Kunitachi College of Music is a private music conservatory in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1926 as the Tokyo Conservatory of Music, Kunitachi now offers study programs in performance, music education, composition, computer music, and musicology, for bachelor's degree, post-bachelor's diploma, master's degree, and doctorate.

    9.1 km · Private University in Tokyo · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Tokorozawa Shinmei Shrine

    Tokorozawa Shimei Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan.

    800 m · Shinto shrine in Saitama Prefecture, 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.

Go there

Getting to Tokorozawa

Airports
Tokyo Haneda (HND), 40 km · Narita (NRT), 83 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 95 km
Stations
Tokorozawa Station, 1.5 km · Hagiyama Station, 6.6 km · Higashi-Yamatoshi Station, 8 km · Kotesashi Station, 2.7 km · Higashi-Tokorozawa Station, 4.2 km
  • Narita → Tokorozawa
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · ¥1,100–1,500
  • Omitama → Tokorozawa
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · ¥1,270–1,730
  • Makinohara / Shimada → Tokorozawa
    160 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · ¥2,450–3,350
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tokorozawa

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 Tokorozawa. 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
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,178 km
  2. 02
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,280 km
  3. 03
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,571 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,949 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    2,139 km

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Around it

Next door to Tokorozawa

Tokorozawa is 12 km from Kawagoe, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.