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Yokkaichi

Yokkaichi is a city located in Mie Prefecture, Japan.

Yokkaichi
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The place

Yokkaichi is a city located in Mie Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 November 2025, the city had an estimated population of 305,279 in 147,185 households and a population density of 1,478.3 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 206.50 square kilometres (79.73 sq mi).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Yokkaichi

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.

  1. 01
    Yokkaichi Municipal Museum

    Yokkaichi Municipal Museum opened in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Japan in 1993. The displays relate to the history of the area from geological times to the present and there is also a planetarium.

    900 m · museum in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Yokkaichi Port Building

    The Yokkaichi Port Building is a skyscraper located in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Construction of the 100-metre, 14-storey skyscraper was finished in 1999.

    4.4 km · building in Yokkaichi, Mie · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Isaka Dam

    Isaka Dam is a dam in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Japan, completed in 1966.

    8.2 km · dam in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Yokkaichi Dome

    Yokkaichi Dome is a multi-purpose indoor sporting arena located in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Japan. The capacity of the arena is 4,704 people.

    2.9 km · building in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Chōkaidō Museum

    Chōkaidō Museum opened in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Japan in 1994, reopening in a new site in the city in 2017. The collection, built up by Yamamoto Teijirō, focuses on Chinese calligraphy and paintings from the Song to the Qing.

    600 m · art museum in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Tsubaki Nakato Shrine

    Tsubaki Shrine is a Shinto shrine in the Ichinomiya neighborhood of the city of Suzuka in Mie Prefecture, Japan. It is one of the two shrines which claim the title of ichinomiya of former Ise Province.

    7.4 km · Shinto shrine in Suzuka, Mie prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Yokkaichi Nursing and Medical Care University

    Yokkaichi Nursing and Medical Care University is a private university in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan, established in 2007.

    6.6 km · private university in Yokkaichi, Japan · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Kurube Government Offices Site

    The Kurube Kanga ruins is an archaeological site with the ruins of an Asuka to Heian period government administrative complex located in what is now the Oyachi neighborhood of the city of Yokkaichi in Mie prefecture in the northern Kansai region of Japan. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site from 2006.

    5.6 km · archaeological site in Yokkaichi, Japan · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Suzuka Municipal Museum of Archaeology

    Suzuka Municipal Museum of Archaeology opened adjacent to the site of Ise Kokubun-ji in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan in 1998. The collection and displays relate to the archaeology and ancient way of life in the area.

    8.4 km · museum in Suzuka, Mie, Japan · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Ise Kokubun-ji Temple

    The Ise Kokubun-ji was a Buddhist temple located in the Kokubunchō neighborhood of the city of Suzuka, Mie Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. It was the provincial temple of former Ise Province.

    8.4 km · Buddhist temple in Suzuka, Mie, 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Night Cruise to view seaside plants (夜景クルーズ). Once notorious for air pollution, petrochemical plants of Yokkaichi are a tourist destination now.

From Wikivoyage: Yokkaichi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Cafe Moi

From Wikivoyage: Yokkaichi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Yokkaichi

Airports
Chubu Centrair (NGO), 20 km · Osaka Itami (ITM), 110 km · Kobe (UKB), 133 km
Stations
Kintetsu Tomida Station, 5.2 km · Ise-Asahi Station, 9.1 km · Kintetsu Yokkaichi Station, 600 m · Kawagoe Tomisuhara Station, 6.6 km · Akuragawa Station, 2.2 km
  • Osaka → Yokkaichi
    106 km · quickest by road, 3h · ¥1,500–2,040
  • Kobe → Yokkaichi
    134 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · ¥1,840–2,510
  • Makinohara / Shimada → Yokkaichi
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · ¥1,890–2,580
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Yokkaichi

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

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    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

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If you know how people move in Yokkaichi – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Yokkaichi

Yokkaichi is 35 km from Nagoya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Suzukacity in Mie prefecture, Japan9.9 km
  • Asahitown in Mie district, Mie prefecture, Japan8.5 km
  • Kawagoetown in Mie district, Mie prefecture, Japan7.9 km
  • Kusudissolved municipality in Mie district, Mie prefecture, Japan5.7 km