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Town · Japan · Niigata

# Maki

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Maki

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. Sado-Yahiko-Yoneyama Quasi-National Park Sado-Yahiko-Yoneyama Quasi-National Park is a Quasi-National Park in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Designated on 27 July 1950, it has an area of 29,364 ha. 3.9 km · quasi-national park in Niigata prefecture, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sado-Yahiko-Yoneyama_Quasi-National_Park)

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 Maki

**Airports:** Niigata (KIJ), 30 km · Sendai (SDJ), 184 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 221 km\
**Stations:** Iwamuro Station, 3.2 km · Maki Station, 900 m\

- Natori → Maki 181 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · ¥2,640–3,600 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/natori-to-maki) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Natori&to=Maki)
- Omitama → Maki 213 km · quickest by road, 4h 35m · ¥3,610–4,920 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/omitama-to-maki) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Omitama&to=Maki)
- Tokyo → Maki 240 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · ¥3,290–4,490 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tokyo-to-maki) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tokyo&to=Maki)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Maki)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Maki

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 Maki. 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. [Sakhalin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sakhalin) RU 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 1,081 km
2. [Muuido and the Incheon islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/muuido) KR 9 ways of moving, 20 sources 1,099 km
3. [Zamami and the Kerama Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zamami) JP 12 ways of moving, 19 sources 1,681 km
4. [Taketomi and the Yaeyama islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/taketomi) JP 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 2,047 km
5. [Matsu Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/matsu) TW 9 ways of moving, 34 sources 2,193 km

If you know how people move in Maki – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cmaki&title=Maki&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fmaki), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Maki

Maki is 24 km from [Niigata](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/niigata), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

- [Nishikan-ku](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nishikan-ku) one of the eight wards of the City of Niigata, Japan 1.3 km
- [Iwamuro](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/iwamuro) dissolved municipality in Nishikanbara district, Niigata prefecture, Japan 3 km

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