Omitama

Worth seeing in and around Omitama

5 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
   Iwama Dōjō

   The Iwama Dōjō is a dōjō built by the founder of aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, who lived there from 1942 until his death in 1969. It is located in the former town of Iwama and became an important historical location for the development of aikido and "a Mecca to the aikido community." This dojo is also where Morihiro Saito, one of the founder's closest students, learned and taught aikido from 1946 until 2002 developing what is often referred to as the Iwama Style.

   8.8 km · Shinto shrine in Kasama, Japan · 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.

   8.6 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.

   9.4 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.

   9.3 km · historic site in Ibaraki, Japan · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Kohata Kitayama Haniwa Production Site

   The Obata Kitayama Haniwa Production Site is an archaeological site with the ruins of a large-scale Kofun period factory for the production of haniwa clay funerary pottery, located in what is now the town of Ibaraki in Ibaraki Prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan. It received protection as a National Historic Site in 1992.

   6.4 km · archaeological site · Wikipedia

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Getting to Omitama

Airports

Ibaraki (IBR), 8 km · Narita (NRT), 52 km · Tokyo Haneda (HND), 92 km

Stations

Ibaraki Airport, 8.5 km · Hatori Station, 5.9 km · Takahama Station, 9.9 km · Iwama Station, 9.2 km · Ishioka Station, 8.4 km

• Narita → Omitama

  53 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · ¥860–1,170
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• Tokyo → Omitama

  88 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · ¥1,130–1,550
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• Natori → Omitama

  217 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · ¥2,750–3,750
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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 Omitama. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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