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Town · Japan · Ibaraki

# Ami

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Ami

One place 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. Yokaren Peace Memorial Museum The Yokaren Peace Memorial Museum opened in Ami, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, in 2010. The museum preserves and displays materials relating to the young Naval Aviator Preparatory Course trainees, Yokaren for short, including photographs by Ken Domon. 2.5 km · museum in Ami, Ibaraki, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokaren_Peace_Memorial_Museum)

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 Ami

**Airports:** Ibaraki (IBR), 25 km · Narita (NRT), 34 km · Tokyo Haneda (HND), 65 km\
**Stations:** Arakawaoki Station, 3.1 km · Kasumigaura Air Field, 600 m\

- Tokyo → Ami 60 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · ¥840–1,140 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tokyo-to-ami) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tokyo&to=Ami)
- Makinohara / Shimada → Ami 227 km · quickest by road, 3h 51m · ¥3,050–4,160 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/makinohara-shimada-to-ami) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Makinohara+%2F+Shimada&to=Ami)
- Niigata → Ami 234 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · ¥3,690–5,050 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/niigata-to-ami) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Niigata&to=Ami)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Ami)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Ami

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 Ami. 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. [Muuido and the Incheon islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/muuido) KR 9 ways of moving, 20 sources 1,237 km
2. [Sakhalin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sakhalin) RU 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 1,243 km
3. [Zamami and the Kerama Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zamami) JP 12 ways of moving, 19 sources 1,639 km
4. [Taketomi and the Yaeyama islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/taketomi) JP 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 2,018 km
5. [Matsu Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/matsu) TW 9 ways of moving, 34 sources 2,210 km

If you know how people move in Ami – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cami&title=Ami&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fami), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Ami

Ami is 20 km from [Suginami](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/suginami), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

[The place page for Ami](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/ami) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Japan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-JP)


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