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Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto

Higashiyama is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto
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Higashiyama is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto

Airports
Osaka Itami (ITM), 39 km · Kobe (UKB), 65 km · Kansai (KIX), 80 km
  • Osaka → Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · ¥540–740
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  • Kobe → Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · ¥800–1,100
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  • Tokoname → Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · ¥1,540–2,100
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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 Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Kyoto, the JR Kosei line goes directly to the Hieizan-Sakamoto station which is a 1,200-m walk from the Sakamoto Cable Car or the trailhead to climb Mount Hiei on foot.
  • Get inFrom here the Eizan Cable Car makes the trip to the top of Mount Hiei for ¥850/1080 one-way/return (incl.
  • Get inThe Hiyoshi Taisha shrine and the cable car to Mt.
  • Get aroundFor going between the two, you can use the Sakamoto Cable Car, which costs ¥840/1570 one-way/round-trip and runs daily from 08:00 to 17:00 once every 30 minutes.
  • Get aroundAt over 2 km, this is the longest cable car in Japan and takes about 11 minutes for the journey.

From Wikivoyage: Mount Hiei, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    881 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,267 km
  3. 03
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,461 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,635 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,800 km

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Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto is 3 km from Kyoto, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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