--- title: "Hokuto – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Hokuto, Japan: town. Nearby: Kinsei ruins, Yato Castle. Every way there from the planner, and what we have not yet researched." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hokuto" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hokuto.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Town · Japan · Yamanashi # Hokuto What is there ## 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsei_ruins) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yato_Castle) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/makinohara-shimada-to-hokuto) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Makinohara+%2F+Shimada&to=Hokuto) - Tokyo → Hokuto 118 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · ¥1,620–2,210 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tokyo-to-hokuto) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tokyo&to=Hokuto) - Narita → Hokuto 173 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · ¥2,420–3,300 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/narita-to-hokuto) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Narita&to=Hokuto) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Hokuto) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Go next Features 2 chairlifts and a gondola as well as a rental shop. From [Wikivoyage: Hokuto (Hokkaido)](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Hokuto_(Hokkaido%29), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-03. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Muuido and the Incheon islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/muuido) KR 9 ways of moving, 20 sources 1,082 km 2. [Sakhalin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sakhalin) RU 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 1,298 km 3. [Zamami and the Kerama Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zamami) JP 12 ways of moving, 19 sources 1,501 km 4. [Taketomi and the Yaeyama islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/taketomi) JP 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,875 km 5. [Matsu Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/matsu) TW 9 ways of moving, 34 sources 2,053 km If you know how people move in Hokuto – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Chokuto&title=Hokuto&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fhokuto), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Hokuto - [Takane](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/takane) dissolved municipality in Kitakoma district, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan 1.6 km - [Nagasaka](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nagasaka) dissolved municipality in Kitakoma district, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan 2.8 km - [Ōizumi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/oizumi) dissolved municipality in Kitakoma district, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan 3.2 km [The place page for Hokuto](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/hokuto) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Japan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-JP) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hokuto, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt