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Kasumigaura

Kasumigaura is a city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

Kasumigaura
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The place

Kasumigaura is a city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 July 2020, the city had an estimated population of 40,254 in 15,839 households and a population density of 257 persons per km2. The percentage of the population aged over 65 was 32.0%. The total area of the city is 156.60 square kilometres (60.46 sq mi).. The city takes its name from the nearby lake, Lake Kasumigaura. The city has the distinction of having the longest name in Japan, together with Ichikikushikino, Kagoshima Prefecture and Tsukubamirai. Much of the city is within the borders of the Suigō-Tsukuba Quasi-National Park.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kasumigaura

4 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
    Kiyotaki-dera Temple

    Kiyotaki-ji is a Buddhist temple located in the Ono neighborhood of the city of Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It belongs to the Buzan-branch of Shingon Buddhism and its honzon is a statue of Kannon Bosatsu, also popularly known as the Kiyotaki Kannon.

    6.4 km · Buddhist temple in Ibaraki · 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.

    5.9 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.

    4.9 km · Shinto shrine in Hitachi Province, Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    5.1 km · historic site in Ibaraki, Japan · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Kasumigaura

Airports
Ibaraki (IBR), 16 km · Narita (NRT), 45 km · Tokyo Haneda (HND), 78 km
Stations
Kandatsu Station, 3.6 km · Takahama Station, 5.4 km · Tsuchiura Station, 8.7 km · Ishioka Station, 5.8 km
  • Narita → Kasumigaura
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · ¥650–890
  • Tokyo → Kasumigaura
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · ¥970–1,320
  • Niigata → Kasumigaura
    224 km · quickest by road, 4h 32m · ¥3,480–4,740
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kasumigaura

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

The nearest places where the work is done
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    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,230 km
  2. 02
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,238 km
  3. 03
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    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

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  4. 04
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    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    2,028 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

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Around it

Next door to Kasumigaura

Kasumigaura is 7 km from Suginami, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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