Yokkaichi
Yokkaichi is a city located in Mie Prefecture, Japan.

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).
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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.
- 01Yokkaichi 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 - 02Yokkaichi 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 - 03Isaka Dam
Isaka Dam is a dam in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Japan, completed in 1966.
8.2 km · dam in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan · Wikipedia - 04Yokkaichi 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 - 05Chōkaidō 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 - 06Tsubaki 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 - 07Yokkaichi 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 - 08Kurube 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 - 09Suzuka 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 - 10Ise 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
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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.
Where to eat
- 01Cafe Moi
From Wikivoyage: Yokkaichi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
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 → Yokkaichi106 km · quickest by road, 3h · ¥1,500–2,040
- Kobe → Yokkaichi134 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · ¥1,840–2,510
- Makinohara / Shimada → Yokkaichi144 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · ¥1,890–2,580
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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 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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Next door to Yokkaichi
Yokkaichi is 35 km from Nagoya, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.