Hongō
Hongō (本郷) is a district of Tokyo located in Bunkyō, due north of the Tokyo Imperial Palace and west of Ueno.
Hongō (本郷) is a district of Tokyo located in Bunkyō, due north of the Tokyo Imperial Palace and west of Ueno.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Hongō
- Airports
- Tokyo Haneda (HND), 18 km · Narita (NRT), 57 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 79 km
- Narita → Hongō41 km · quickest by road, 52 min · ¥540–740
- Omitama → Hongō93 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · ¥1,320–1,800
- Makinohara / Shimada → Hongō53 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · ¥910–1,250
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Hongō
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 Hongō. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThe street markets and museums of Ueno are directly west of Asakusa, while Sumida of Skytree and sumo fame is immediately across the river.
- Go nextAsakusa is a large Tokyo hub of the private Tobu railway, and you can be transported to a different world in two hours: Ashikaga Kinugawa — a hot-spring resort fallen on hard times Nikko — with its national parks and opulent shrines Tatebayashi Tochigi — A worthwhile day trip from Tokyo for its preserved architecture and old shops.
From Wikivoyage: Tokyo/Asakusa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Hongō – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Hongō
Hongō is 5 km from Shinjuku, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.