Samukawa
Samukawa is a town located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Samukawa is a town located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 June 2021, the town had an estimated population of 48,679 and a population density of 3600 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 13.42 square kilometres (5.18 sq mi).
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Worth seeing in and around Samukawa
8 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.
- 01Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka
Lemon Gas Stadium Hiratsuka is a multi-purpose stadium in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Shonan Bellmare.
5.4 km · stadium in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan · Wikipedia - 02Samukawa Shrine
Samukawa Shrine is a Shinto shrine in the Miyayama neighborhood of the town of Samukawa, Kōza District. Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
400 m · Shinto shrine in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 03St. Andrew's Cathedral
St. Andrew's Cathedral, Tokyo is the Cathedral Church of the Tokyo Diocese of the Anglican Church in Japan.
5.7 km · Cathedral Church of the Tokyo Diocese of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Anglican Church in Japan · Wikipedia - 04Hiratsuka Museum of Art
The Hiratsuka Museum of Art opened in 1991 in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The collection of approximately twelve thousand objects has a particular focus on the Shōnan area.
5.5 km · building in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 05Kanzaki Site
The Kanzaki site is an archaeological site with the ruins of a moated Yayoi period settlement, located in the city of Ayase, Kanagawa Prefecture in the southern Kantō region of Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2011.
4.2 km · archaeological site in Ayase, Kanagawa, Japan · Wikipedia - 06Sagami River Bridge ruins
The Former Sagami River Bridge is the ruins of a Kamakura period bridge over the former course of the Sagami River, located in what is now the city of Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1926, with the area under protection expanded in 2007.
4.9 km · kamakura period bridge in Japan · Wikipedia - 07Shimoterao Kanga site
The Shimoterao Kanga ruins is an archaeological site with the ruins of a Nara to Heian period government administrative complex located in what is now the city of Chigasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture in the southern Kantō region of Japan. It was designated as a National Historic Site from 2015.
1.9 km · archaeological site in Japan · Wikipedia - 08Keio Shonan Fujisawa Junior & Senior High School
Keio Shonan-Fujisawa Junior & Senior High School is located on the Shonan Fujisawa Campus of Keio University in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Since its founding in 1992, the school has been commonly known as Keio SFC, or simply SFC. The overwhelming majority of its students advance to Keio University.
4.1 km · Private coeducational Junior and Senior High School in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan attached to Keio University · Wikipedia
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Getting to Samukawa
- Airports
- Tokyo Haneda (HND), 41 km · Narita (NRT), 101 km · Mount Fuji Shizuoka (FSZ), 126 km
- Stations
- Chigasaki Station, 5.5 km · Aikō-Ishida Station, 5.9 km · Kagawa Station, 2.6 km · Kadosawabashi Station, 3.4 km · Kita-Chigasaki Station, 4.7 km
- Tokyo → Samukawa44 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · ¥610–830
- Narita → Samukawa95 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · ¥1,360–1,860
- Makinohara / Shimada → Samukawa126 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · ¥1,790–2,450
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Samukawa
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 Samukawa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThere is often a small, walk-on ferry that runs back and forth between the causeway and the back of the island (near the caves).
- Go nextKamakura, at the other end of the Enoden line, is a popular temple town and easily visited on the same day trip.
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Next door to Samukawa
Samukawa is 9 km from Fujisawa, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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