Setagaya
Setagaya is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan.
Setagaya is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. It is also the name of a neighborhood and administrative district within the ward. Its official bird is the azure-winged magpie, its flower is the fringed orchid, and its tree is the Zelkova serrata.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Carrot Tower
This is the tallest building in Setagaya and contains a free observation deck on the 26th floor and Gamefreak Co.
- 02Gotokuji Temple
- 03Hanegi Park
- 04Kinuta Park
A public park with a museum of modern art.
- 05Komazawa Olympic Park
- 06Machiko Hasegawa Museum
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Things to do
- 01Tollywood
- 02Kuhonbutsu River Green Street
Take a date, canine friend, or both for an afternoon stroll from Jiyugaoka to Kuhonbutsu.
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Where to eat
Shimokitazawa is your best option for restaurants and bars. La Befana, 5-31-3 Daita (30-second walk from Shimokitazawa West Exit),. Daily 12:00-14:00, 17:30-22:30. Good pizza from wood-fired stone oven, something you will be missing if you are staying for a long time in Japan. The lunch menu is excellent. Setagaya (せたが屋), Nozawa 2-1-2 1F,. 17:00-22:30. A famous ramen restaurant.
- 01Shiro-Hige’s Cream Puff Factory
- 02Village Vanguard Diner
Hamburger shop that has many kinds of very delicious hamburgers.
- 03Universal Bakes
Vegan bakery selling coffee, bread and doughnuts.
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Getting to Setagaya
- Airports
- Tokyo Haneda (HND), 16 km · Narita (NRT), 68 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 91 km
- Narita → Setagaya62 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · ¥870–1,190
- Omitama → Setagaya92 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · ¥1,130–1,550
- Makinohara / Shimada → Setagaya161 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · ¥2,130–2,910
- 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 Setagaya
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 Setagaya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHitchhiking into Tokyo is pretty easy, but hitchhiking out is considerably more difficult.
- Get inIt's definitely possible for determined cheapskates though, see Hitchhiking in Japan for a detailed list of tested escape routes from the city.
- Get inKokusai Kogyo Bus (国際興業バス) Keisei Bus (京成バス) Keikyu Bus (京急バス) Keio Bus (Japanese Website) (京王バス) Kanto Bus (関東バス) Nishi Tokyo Bus (Japanese Website) (西東京バス) Odakyu Bus (Japanese Website) (小田急バス) Odakyu Highway Bus (小田急ハイウェイバス) Seibu Bus (西武バス) Tobu Bus (Japanese Website) (東武バス) Tohoku Kyuko Bus (東北急行バス) One of the great ports of the world, Tokyo also has domestic ferry services to other points in Japan.
- Get inHowever, none of the regular international ferries to Japan call at Tokyo.
- Get inThe main long-distance ferry terminal is , on an artificial island adjacent to Odaiba in Tokyo Bay.
From Wikivoyage: Tokyo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Setagaya – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Setagaya
Setagaya is 6 km from Tokyo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.