--- title: "Kamikoizumi – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Kamikoizumi, Japan: Ōizumi is a town located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Nearby: Ōizumi Observatory, Ota Stadium, Kangi-in Temple. Every way there from…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/oizumi" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/oizumi.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Oizumi_Town_Office.JPG" --- Town in Kantō, Japan · Gunma # Kamikoizumi Ōizumi is a town located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. ![Kamikoizumi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Oizumi_Town_Office.JPG) Kamikoizumi · Wikimedia Commons The place Ōizumi is a town located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 August 2020, the town had an estimated population of 41,918 in 19,773 households, and a population density of 2300 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 18.03 km2 (6.96 sq mi). Approximately 20 percent of the total population are foreign citizens, mostly Japanese Brazilians, who work at many factories in the town. Since 1990, Japanese descendants from foreign countries have been permitted to stay in Japan freely. It is estimated that 15 percent of the population speak Portuguese as their native language, and as of 2007, Ōizumi has the highest concentration of Brazilians of any city in Japan. More recently, Nepalese and other Asians have begun settling in the town. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cizumi%2C_Gunma), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Kamikoizumi 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. Ōizumi Observatory Ōizumi Observatory is a private astronomical observatory in Ōizumi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. 1.1 km · Japanese private astronomical observatory · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Cizumi_Observatory) 2. Ota Stadium Ota Stadium is an athletic stadium in Ota, Gunma, Japan. The stadium has a capacity of 3,223 people. 3.2 km · athletic stadium in Ota, Gunma, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ota_Stadium) 3. Kangi-in Temple Kangi-in is a Buddhist temple in Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It was founded in 1179 and is affiliated with the Kōyasan Shingon-shū sect of Buddhism. 3.5 km · Buddhist temple · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangi-in) 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 Kamikoizumi **Airports:** Tokyo Haneda (HND), 85 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 91 km · Narita (NRT), 103 km\ **Stations:** Ōta Station, 5.7 km · Higashi-Koizumi Station, 2.5 km · Hon-Nakano Station, 5.9 km · Nishi-Koizumi Station, 1.2 km · Koizumimachi Station, 2 km\ - Tokyo → Kamikoizumi 68 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · ¥980–1,340 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tokyo-to-kamikoizumi) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tokyo&to=Kamikoizumi) - Omitama → Kamikoizumi 85 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · ¥1,310–1,790 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/omitama-to-kamikoizumi) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Omitama&to=Kamikoizumi) - Narita → Kamikoizumi 96 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · ¥1,530–2,090 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/narita-to-kamikoizumi) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Narita&to=Kamikoizumi) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Kamikoizumi) 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 Kamikoizumi 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 Kamikoizumi. 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. [Muuido and the Incheon islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/muuido) KR 9 ways of moving, 20 sources 1,162 km 2. [Sakhalin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sakhalin) RU 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 1,233 km 3. [Zamami and the Kerama Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zamami) JP 12 ways of moving, 19 sources 1,599 km 4. [Taketomi and the Yaeyama islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/taketomi) JP 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,975 km 5. [Matsu Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/matsu) TW 9 ways of moving, 34 sources 2,155 km If you know how people move in Kamikoizumi – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Coizumi&title=Kamikoizumi&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Foizumi), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Kamikoizumi Kamikoizumi is 33 km from [Maebashi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/maebashi), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Ōta-shi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ota-shi) city in Gunma Prefecture, Japan 5.5 km - [Chiyoda](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chiyoda) town in Ōra district, Gunma prefecture, Japan 4.7 km - [Ōra-machi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ora-machi) town in Ora District, Gunma Prefecture, Japan 5.2 km - [Menuma](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/menuma) dissolved municipality in Ōsato district, Saitama prefecture, Japan (1913-2005) 4.2 km [The place page for Kamikoizumi](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/oizumi) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Japan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-JP) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/oizumi, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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