Higashiura
Higashiura is a town located in Chita District, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

Higashiura is a town located in Chita District, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. On 31 April 2023, the town had an estimated population of 50,182 in 21,426 households, and a population density of 1,611 per square kilometre (4,170/sq mi). This makes the town the most populous town in Aichi Prefecture, surpassing Takahama, Iwakura in population. The town is also the second most populous town in Japan, being surpassed by Fuchū, Hiroshima. The total area was 31.14 square kilometres (12.02 sq mi).
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Worth seeing in and around Higashiura
3 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.
- 01Kariya City Art Museum
Kariya City Art Museum opened in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1983. The collection focuses on local, modern, post-war, and contemporary art, and includes some 3,441 works by 168 artists, as of April 2020.
4.8 km · museum in Kariya City, Aichi, Japan · Wikipedia - 02Kariya Stadium
Kariya Stadium is a baseball stadium in the city of Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It was also used as an Association football stadium until 1994.
3.2 km · baseball stadium in Kariya, Aichi, Japan · Wikipedia - 03Irimi Shell Midden
The Irimi shell midden is an archaeological site containing a Jōmon period shell midden located in the Ogawa neighborhood of the town of Higashiura, Aichi in the Tōkai region of Japan. The site was designated as a National Historic Site in 1953.
2.1 km · Archaeological site in Japan · Wikipedia
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Getting to Higashiura
- Airports
- Chubu Centrair (NGO), 19 km · Mount Fuji Shizuoka (FSZ), 114 km · Osaka Itami (ITM), 140 km
- Stations
- Kariya Station, 5.4 km · Ōbu Station, 4.3 km · Aizuma Station, 4.4 km · Higashiura Station, 2.6 km · Kamezaki Station, 5.7 km
- Osaka → Higashiura136 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · ¥1,930–2,630
- Makinohara / Shimada → Higashiura115 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · ¥1,540–2,100
- Kobe → Higashiura164 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · ¥2,240–3,060
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No local-transport research exists yet for Higashiura
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 Higashiura. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Higashiura
Higashiura is 19 km from Okazaki, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.