Hirakata
Hirakata is a city in northeastern Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
Hirakata is a city in northeastern Osaka Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 December 2021, the city had an estimated population of 397,681 in 183075 households and a population density of 6100 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 65.12 square kilometres (25.14 sq mi).
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Worth seeing in and around Hirakata
6 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.
- 01Osaka Expo '70 Stadium
Expo '70 Commemorative Stadium, a.k.a. “Osaka Expo '70 Stadium", is an athletics stadium located in the Expo Commemoration Park, the site of Expo '70, in the city of Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
9.8 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 02Iwashimizu Hachimangū
Iwashimizu Hachimangū is a Shinto shrine located in the city of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is one of the Twenty-Two Shrines in the Heian period ranked system of Shinto shrines, and along with the Ise Grand Shrine, one of the two royal ancestral shrines for the Imperial family.
8.4 km · Shinto shrine in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 03Mount Tennōzan
Mount Tennō, or Mount Tennōzan, is a mountain in Ōyamazaki, Kyoto, Japan. The name originates from a shrine on the mountain dedicated to Gozu Tennō, the ox-headed deity of disease and health.
9.8 km · mountain in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 04Akutagawayama Castle
Akutagawayama Castle was a Sengoku period mountain-top castle in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Located on a 182.6 meter mountain.
9.1 km · castle ruins in Osaka, Japan · Wikipedia - 05Hirakata Park
Hirakata Park is an amusement park in Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, nicknamed "Hirapah". The park is managed by Keihan Leisure Service and is located on the Keihan line at Hirakata-kōen Station.
1.6 km · amusement park · Wikipedia - 06Minase Jingū
Minase Shrine is a Shinto Shrine in Shimamoto, Osaka The Shrine is dedicated to the veneration of the kami of Emperor Go-Toba, Emperor Tsuchimikado and Emperor Juntoku. In the struggle with the Kamakura shogunate, the three historical figures are united by one common factor—each was overpowered and banished from the Imperial center in Kyoto: Go-Toba was banished to Oki Island, where he died.
7.9 km · Shinto shrine in Osaka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Okami Shrine
Located atop Mount Mannenji, the shrine grounds are filled with plum blossoms around February and March.
- 02Sada Shrine
- 03Ruins of Kudara-dera
In 660 AD, the Korean kingdom of Baekje was conquered by the Silla-Tang Alliance and their last king, Uija, was taken to China as a prisoner.
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Things to do
- 01Hirakata Park
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Where to eat
- 01New Delhi
- 02Pekin
A small restaurant serving delicious Chinese dishes.
From Wikivoyage: Hirakata, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Hirakata
- Airports
- Osaka Itami (ITM), 20 km · Kobe (UKB), 44 km · Kansai (KIX), 57 km
- Stations
- Kayashima Station, 8.5 km · Takatsuki Station, 4.9 km · Takatsuki-shi Station, 4.4 km · Hirakatashi Station, 100 m · Dainichi Station, 9.9 km
- Osaka → Hirakata19 km · quickest by road, 55 min · ¥240–330
- Kobe → Hirakata45 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · ¥630–860
- Tokoname → Hirakata109 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · ¥1,750–2,390
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hirakata
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 Hirakata. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Hirakata
Hirakata is 5 km from Takatsuki, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.