Asahi-ku, Yokohama
Asahi-ku (旭) is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Asahi-ku (旭) is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward has an estimated population of 249,045 and a population density of 7,600 persons per km2. The total area is 32.77 km2.
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Worth seeing in and around Asahi-ku, Yokohama
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.
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Asahi-ku is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward has an estimated population of 249,045 and a population density of 7,600 persons per km2.
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Getting to Asahi-ku, Yokohama
- Airports
- Tokyo Haneda (HND), 23 km · Narita (NRT), 83 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 111 km
- Stations
- Futamatagawa Station, 1.7 km · Kamihoshikawa Station, 3.4 km · Mitsukyō Station, 3.9 km · Kibōgaoka Station, 3.2 km · Nishiya Station, 1.9 km
- Narita → Asahi-ku, Yokohama57 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · ¥830–1,130
- Omitama → Asahi-ku, Yokohama93 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · ¥1,180–1,610
- Makinohara / Shimada → Asahi-ku, Yokohama164 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · ¥2,370–3,230
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No local-transport research exists yet for Asahi-ku, Yokohama
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 Asahi-ku, Yokohama. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundVelo taxis called "Cyclopolitain" (シクロポリタン, shikuroporitan) are widely available within the harbor area, while rickshaws make their rounds within Chinatown.
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Asahi-ku, Yokohama is 11 km from Yokohama, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.