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Buzenda

Buzenda refers to the downtown area of Shimonoseki City, Japan.

Buzenda
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The place

Buzenda refers to the downtown area of Shimonoseki City, Japan. It is located in the Shimonoseki Station area, and it is known as the most famous downtown area in Yamaguchi Prefecture.

There are izakaya, karaoke bars, and other social venues around Buzenda-cho-2.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Buzenda

8 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
    Kanmon Bridge

    The Kanmon Bridge is a suspension bridge crossing the Kanmon Straits, a stretch of water separating two of Japan's four main islands. On the Honshū side of the bridge is Shimonoseki and on the Kyūshū side is Kitakyushu, whose former city and present ward, Moji, gave the strait its mon.

    3.1 km · Suspension bridge that crosses the Strait Kanmon Strait and unites the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū of Japan. · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Akama Jingū

    Akama Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to the child Emperor Antoku, who died in the Battle of Dan-no-ura, which occurred nearby in 1185.

    2.2 km · Shinto shrine in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mekari Shrine

    Mekari Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan.

    3.4 km · Shinto shrine in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kyushu Railway History Museum

    The Kyushu Railway History Museum is a railway museum owned by JR Kyushu in Kitakyushu, Japan.

    3.3 km · railway museum in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Yamaguchi International Trade and Cultural Center

    Yamaguchi International Trade & Cultural Center or Kaikyo Messe Shimonoseki is a complex facility located in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. This building consists of Kaikyō Yume Tower and the International Trade Building.

    300 m · building in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Shimonoseki Stadium

    Shimonoseki Stadium is an athletic stadium in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is the home stadium of football clubs Renofa Yamaguchi FC and FC Baleine Shimonoseki.

    1.8 km · athletic stadium in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Shimonoseki Junior College

    Shimonoseki Junior College is a private junior college in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan. The school opened in 1962 as a women's junior college with enrollment of 32 students.

    1.3 km · College in Japan · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Kameyama Hachimangū

    Kameyama Hachimangū is a Shinto shrine located in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It is a Hachiman shrine, dedicated to the kami Hachiman.

    1.8 km · Shinto shrine located in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi 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 Buzenda

Airports
Kitakyushu (KKJ), 15 km · Fukuoka (FUK), 60 km · Kyushu Saga (HSG), 106 km
Stations
Mojikō Station, 3.2 km · Hatabu Station, 3.2 km · Shimonoseki Station, 600 m · Norfolk Hiroba Station, 3.4 km · Kanmonkaikyō Mekari Station, 3.9 km
  • Fukuoka → Buzenda
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · ¥1,000–1,370
  • Saga → Buzenda
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · ¥1,310–1,790
  • Kumamoto → Buzenda
    98 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · ¥1,580–2,160
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Buzenda

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextIt's also reachable via ferry and bridge.

From Wikivoyage: Shimonoseki, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    559 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    927 km
  3. 03
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,259 km
  4. 04
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,362 km
  5. 05
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,610 km

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

Around it

Next door to Buzenda

Buzenda is 13 km from Kitakyushu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Shimonosekicity in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan1.5 km
  • Moji-kuward of Kitakyūshū, in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan3.2 km