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Ishioka

Ishioka is a Japanese city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

Ishioka
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The place

Ishioka is a Japanese city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 January 2024, the city had an estimated population of 70,124 in 28,892 households and a population density of 325 persons per km2. The percentage of the population aged over 65 was 33.5%. The total area of the city is 215.53 square kilometres (83.22 sq mi).

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ishioka

3 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
    Hitachi Kokufu

    The Hitachi Kokufu was the provincial capital of Hitachi Province in the late Nara period though Heian period. It was located in the Soja neighborhood of the city of Ishioka, Ibaraki Prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan.

    1.7 km · historic site in Ibaraki, Japan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hitachi Kokubunji Temple

    Hitachi Kokubun-ji is a Buddhist temple located in the Fuchū neighborhood of the city of Ishioka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It belongs to the Shingon-shū Chizan-ha sect, and its honzon is an image of Yakushi Nyōrai.

    1.4 km · Buddhist temple in Japan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hitachinokuni Sōshagū

    Hitachinokuni Sōshagū is a Shinto shrine located in Ishioka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. According to legend, it was founded in the Tenpyō period, c.

    1.7 km · Shinto shrine in Hitachi Province, Japan · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ishioka

Airports
Ibaraki (IBR), 11 km · Narita (NRT), 48 km · Tokyo Haneda (HND), 84 km
Stations
Kandatsu Station, 8.6 km · Hatori Station, 6.3 km · Takahama Station, 3.1 km · Ishioka Station, 700 m
  • Narita → Ishioka
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · ¥790–1,080
  • Tokyo → Ishioka
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · ¥980–1,340
  • Niigata → Ishioka
    222 km · quickest by road, 4h 31m · ¥3,310–4,520
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ishioka

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,225 km
  2. 02
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,241 km
  3. 03
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,656 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    2,034 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    2,224 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ishioka

Ishioka is 1 km from Suginami, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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