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Sasaguri

Sasaguri is a town in Kasuya District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Sasaguri
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The place

Sasaguri is a town in Kasuya District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2024, the town had an estimated population of 31,191 in 14041 households, and a population density of 250 persons per km². The total area of the town is 38.93 km2 (15.03 sq mi)

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sasaguri

6 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
    Narufuchi Dam

    Narufuchi Dam is a dam in Sasaguri, in the Fukuoka Prefecture of Japan, completed in 2001.

    2.5 km · dam in Japan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Nanzo-in Temple

    Nanzo-in is a Shingon Buddhist temple in Sasaguri, Fukuoka, Japan. It is notable for its bronze statue of a reclining Buddha, said to be the largest bronze statue of the Buddha reclining as he enters Nirvana in the world.

    4.4 km · Shingon Buddhist temple in Sasaguri, Fukuoka, Japan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Nagatani Dam

    Nagatani Dam is a gravity dam located in Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for water supply.

    5.8 km · dam in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mount Shura Site

    The Mount Shura Site is the ruins of a medieval Buddhist temple located in town of Hisayama, Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2013.

    4.3 km · archaeological site in Hisayama, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kubara Dam

    Kubara Dam is a gravity dam located in Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for water supply.

    2.3 km · dam in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Wakasugiyama

    Wakasugiyama is a mountain located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the Kyushu Mountains.

    3.4 km · mountain in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia

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 Sasaguri

Airports
Fukuoka (FUK), 8 km · Kitakyushu (KKJ), 53 km · Kyushu Saga (HSG), 57 km
Stations
Chōjabaru Station, 4.6 km · Kadomatsu Station, 2.8 km · Harumachi Station, 5.3 km · Doi Station, 5.7 km · Iga Station, 4.9 km
  • Kitakyushu → Sasaguri
    38 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · ¥640–870
  • Saga → Sasaguri
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · ¥810–1,110
  • Kumamoto → Sasaguri
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · ¥1,270–1,730
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sasaguri

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 Sasaguri. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFukuoka offers the Camellia Line Ferry and Beetle hydrofoil service to Busan, South Korea.

From Wikivoyage: Fukuoka (prefecture), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-02.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    560 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    879 km
  3. 03
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,208 km
  4. 04
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,310 km
  5. 05
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,559 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sasaguri

Sasaguri is 10 km from Fukuoka, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kasuyatown in Kasuya district, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan4.5 km
  • Shimetown in Kasuya district, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan5.6 km
  • Suetown in Kasuya district, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan4.4 km
  • Hisayamatown in Kasuya district, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan3.5 km
  • Kasuya districtdistrict in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan1 km