Hokuto

Worth seeing in and around Hokuto

2 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
   Kinsei ruins

   The Kinsei site is an archaeological site consisting of the ruins of a late to final Jōmon period settlement, located in the Ōizumi neighborhood of the city of Hokuto, Yamanashi in the Chūbu region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1983.

   1.8 km · archaeological site in Hokuto, Japan · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Yato Castle

   Yato Castle was a Heian period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the Ōizumi neighborhood of the city of Hokuto, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan. It was the primary fortress of the warlord Henmi Kiyomitsu, ancestor of the Takeda clan.

   2.6 km · castle in Japan · Wikipedia

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Getting to Hokuto

Airports

Mount Fuji Shizuoka (FSZ), 117 km · Tokyo Haneda (HND), 130 km · Narita (NRT), 180 km

Stations

Nagasaka Station, 2.8 km

• Makinohara / Shimada → Hokuto

  115 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · ¥1,660–2,270
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• Tokyo → Hokuto

  118 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · ¥1,620–2,210
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• Narita → Hokuto

  173 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · ¥2,420–3,300
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hokuto

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

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