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San Juan de Dios

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Getting to San Juan de Dios

Airports
Juan Santamaría (SJO), 19 km · Daniel Oduber Quirós (LIR), 178 km
  • Liberia → San Juan de Dios
    170 km · quickest by road, 4h 50m · $17–24
  • Managua → San Juan de Dios
    345 km · quickest by air, 5h 32m · $230–340
  • San Andrés → San Juan de Dios
    397 km · quickest by air, 7h 13m · COL$314,430–485,860
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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 San Juan de Dios

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 San Juan de Dios. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundInstead of waiting for hours for the bus at the highway, you may be better off trying to hitch-hike.
  • Get aroundHitch-hiking is far more common in rural areas than in urban areas.
  • Get aroundIf you choose to hitch-hike, Costa Ricans are generally very friendly and helpful, particularly in more rural areas where traffic on the dirt roads can be light.

From Wikivoyage: Costa Rica, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    247 km
  2. 02
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    752 km
  3. 03
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    972 km
  4. 04
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,004 km
  5. 05
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,083 km

If you know how people move in San Juan de Dios – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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Next door to San Juan de Dios

San Juan de Dios is 6 km from San José, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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