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Kita-ku, Saitama

Kita-ku is one of ten wards of the city of Saitama, in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, and is located in the northwestern part of the city.

Kita-ku, Saitama
Kita-ku, Saitama · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kita-ku is one of ten wards of the city of Saitama, in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, and is located in the northwestern part of the city. As of 1 March 2021, the ward had an estimated population of 148,935 and a population density of 8800 persons per km2. Its total area was 16.86 square kilometres (6.51 sq mi).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kita-ku, Saitama

One place 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
    Railway Museum

    The Railway Museum is a railway museum in Saitama, Saitama, Japan, which opened on 14 October 2007. It was built and is operated by the East Japan Railway Culture Foundation, a non-profit subsidiary of the East Japan Railway Company.

    3.1 km · railway museum in Saitama, Saitama, 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 Kita-ku, Saitama

Airports
Tokyo Haneda (HND), 46 km · Narita (NRT), 74 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 79 km
Stations
Kita-omiya Station, 3.8 km · Nisshin Station, 1.7 km · Sashiogi Station, 2.5 km · Nishi-Ōmiya Station, 1.2 km · Kamonomiya Station, 2.7 km
  • Tokyo → Kita-ku, Saitama
    8 km · quickest by road, 21 min · ¥145–195
  • Narita → Kita-ku, Saitama
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · ¥780–1,070
  • Omitama → Kita-ku, Saitama
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · ¥980–1,340
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kita-ku, Saitama

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

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Around it

Next door to Kita-ku, Saitama

Kita-ku, Saitama is 7 km from Saitama, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.