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Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama

Kanazawa-ku (金沢区) is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama
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The place

Kanazawa-ku (金沢区) is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 209,565 and a density of 6,760 persons per km2. The total area was 31.01 km2 (11.97 sq mi). The ward symbol, established 1987, expresses the image of sea, waves, and a sea gull.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama

8 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
    Yokohama City University

    Yokohama City University is a public university, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2013, YCU has two faculties with a total of around 4,850 students, 111 of whom are foreign.

    700 m · Japanese university · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kanazawa Bunko

    Kanazawa Bunko, formally titled the Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa-Bunko Museum, is a museum located in Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama, Japan. It features a collection of traditional Japanese and Chinese art objects, many dating from the Kamakura period.

    800 m · museum in Japan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

    The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, or JAMSTEC, is a Japanese national research institute for marine-earth science and technology.

    3 km · research institute in Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise

    Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise is an amusement park consisting of an aquarium, shopping mall, hotel, marina and amusement rides. It is located in Hakkeijima, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

    2.1 km · amusement park and aquarium in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kanto Gakuin University

    Kanto Gakuin University is a private university located in Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan.

    1.6 km · University in Yokohama, Japan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Yokosuka Stadium

    Yokosuka Stadium is a baseball stadium in Japan, and the home ground of the Yokohama DeNA BayStars Eastern League affiliate. It was opened in 1949 as Oppama Park, and rebuilt in 1997.

    2.3 km · building in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Nagahama Hall

    Nagahama Hall is a concert hall located in the Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Park in Yokohama, Japan. Built in 1952, it has hosted concerts by some of Japan's most successful musicians.

    2.5 km · concert hall, in Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Park, Yokohama, Japan · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Natsushima Shell Mound

    The Natsushima Shell Midden is an archaeological site in the Natsushima neighborhood of the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in the southern Kantō region of Japan containing a Jōmon period shell midden. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1972.

    2.8 km · archeological site Yokosuka, Japan · Wikipedia

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 Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama

Airports
Tokyo Haneda (HND), 28 km · Narita (NRT), 84 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 118 km
Stations
Kanazawa-Bunko Station, 600 m · Kanazawa-hakkei Station, 800 m · Keikyū Tomioka Station, 3.3 km · Nōkendai Station, 2.6 km · Oppama Station, 2.4 km
  • Narita → Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · ¥1,220–1,670
  • Omitama → Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama
    120 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · ¥1,550–2,120
  • Makinohara / Shimada → Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama
    143 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · ¥2,190–2,990
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama

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 Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inKamakura is a very popular day trip from Tokyo for locals and tourists alike, and there are plenty of transportation options.

From Wikivoyage: Kamakura, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,204 km
  2. 02
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,328 km
  3. 03
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,551 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,931 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    2,131 km

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Around it

Next door to Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama

Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama is 7 km from Yokosuka, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.