Ikoma
Ikoma is a city at the northwestern end of Nara Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan.
Ikoma is a city at the northwestern end of Nara Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. It was founded on November 1, 1971. As of September 1, 2023, the city has an estimated population of 117,259, with 51,478 households. It has a population density of 2,300 persons per km2, and it has the third largest population in the prefecture. The total area is 53.18 km2. The city is known as one of the most affluent suburbs of the Greater Osaka Metropolitan Area (Keihanshin), with a high rate of college graduates, professionals, and company directors amongst its residents. As a result, the city has developed as a satellite city of Osaka, with some 54% of its residents commuting across prefectural borders to Osaka. Kansai Science City is partially located in Ikoma, which is also home to the Nara Institute of Science and Technology. The city is also famous for chasen.
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Worth seeing in and around Ikoma
10 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.
- 01Yakushi-ji Temple
Yakushi-ji is one of the most famous imperial and ancient Buddhist temples in Japan, and was once one of the Seven Great Temples of Nanto, located in Nara. Originally built in the 7th century in the old capital of Fujiwara-kyō, the temple as it stands is said to be a scrupulous copy of the original.
8.5 km · Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 02Tōshōdai-ji Temple
Tōshōdai-ji is a Buddhist temple of the Risshū sect in the city of Nara, in Nara Prefecture, Japan. The Classic Golden Hall, also known as the kondō, has a single story, hipped tiled roof with a seven bay wide facade.
8.2 km · Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 03Hokki-ji Temple
Hokki-ji or Hōki-ji – formerly known as Okamoto-dera and Ikejiri-dera – is a Buddhist temple temple in the Okamoto neighborhood of the town of Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The temple's honorary sangō prefix is "Kōhonzan", although it is rarely used.
9.6 km · Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 04Mount Ikoma
Mount Ikoma is a mountain on the border of Nara Prefecture and Osaka Prefecture in Japan. It is the highest peak in the Ikoma Mountains with a height of 642 meters.
3.1 km · mountain in Osaka and Nara Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 05Saidai-ji Temple
Saidai-ji is a Buddhist temple located in the Saidaiji-Shiba neighborhood of the city of Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. It became the head temple of the Shingon Risshu sect after the sect's founder, Eison, took over administration in 1238.
7.3 km · Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 06Kōriyama Castle
Kōriyama Castle is a flatlands-style Japanese castle located in the city of Yamatokōriyama, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2023.
9 km · building in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 07Akishino-dera Temple
Akishino-dera is a Buddhist temple located in the city of Nara, Nara Prefecture Japan. It does not belong to any sect of Japanese Buddhism and has no "mountain name".
7 km · Buddhist temple · Wikipedia - 08Museum Yamato Bunkakan
The Museum of Japanese Art Yamato Bunkakan is a museum of Asian art in Nara, Nara. The museum was established in 1960 to preserve and display the private collection of Kintetsu Corporation (named Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd.
5.2 km · museum in Nara, Nara, Japan · Wikipedia - 09Hiraoka Shrine
Hiraoka Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in the city of Higashiōsaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is the Ichinomiya of former Kawachi Province.
5.6 km · Shinto shrine in Osaka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 10Hōzan-ji Temple
Hōzan-ji is a Buddhist temple in Monzen-machi, Ikoma, Nara, Japan. Though officially dedicated to the deity Acala, the temple serves as a cult-center of the deity Kangiten and is also called 'Ikoma-Shōten'.
2.2 km · Buddhist temple in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ikoma
- Airports
- Osaka Itami (ITM), 25 km · Kobe (UKB), 44 km · Kansai (KIX), 52 km
- Stations
- Yamato-Saidaiji Station, 7.6 km · Kayashima Station, 9.7 km · Nozaki Station, 6.1 km · Kadoma-minami Station, 10 km · Ikoma Station, 800 m
- Osaka → Ikoma18 km · quickest by road, 48 min · ¥240–330
- Kobe → Ikoma47 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · ¥630–860
- Tokoname → Ikoma107 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · ¥1,830–2,490
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ikoma
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 Ikoma. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Ikoma
Ikoma is 10 km from Nara-shi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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