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Settsu

Settsu is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

Settsu
Settsu · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Settsu is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2022, the city had an estimated population of 87,143 in 40,825 households and a population density of 5700 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 76.49 square kilometres (29.53 sq mi). It is a suburban city of Osaka City and a part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Settsu

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
    Suita Stadium

    Suita City Football Stadium, a.k.a. Panasonic Stadium Suita for sponsorship reasons.

    3.6 km · building in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of the Light

    The Church of the Light is the main chapel of the Ibaraki Kasugaoka Church, a member church of the United Church of Christ in Japan. It was built in 1989, in the city of Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture.

    5.1 km · chapel in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture designed by Tadao Ando · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Osaka Expo '70 Stadium

    Expo '70 Commemorative Stadium, a.k.a. “Osaka Expo '70 Stadium", is an athletics stadium located in the Expo Commemoration Park, the site of Expo '70, in the city of Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

    4.1 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kansai University

    Kansai University, abbreviated as Kandai or Kansaidai, is a private non-sectarian and coeducational university with its main campus in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan and two sub-campuses in Sakai and Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. Founded as Kansai Law School in 1886, It has been recognized as one of the four leading private universities in western Japan: Kan-Kan-Do-Ritsu, along with Kwansei Gakuin University, Doshisha University, and Ritsumeikan University.

    4.8 km · private university in Osaka, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Japan Mint

    The Japan Mint is an Independent Administrative Institution of the Japanese government, responsible for producing and circulating the coins of Japan. The agency has its head office in Osaka with branches in Saitama and Hiroshima.

    9.7 km · building in Kita-ku, Osaka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    National Museum of Ethnology

    The National Museum of Ethnology, also known as the Minpaku, is the largest ethnographic museum in Japan. It is Japan's largest research institute in the academic disciplines of humanities and social sciences.

    5 km · museum and research institute in 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 Settsu

Airports
Osaka Itami (ITM), 11 km · Kobe (UKB), 35 km · Kansai (KIX), 49 km
Stations
Shin‐Ōsaka Station, 7.5 km · Kyōbashi Station, 9.4 km · Kayashima Station, 5.6 km · Higashi-Yodogawa Station, 6.8 km · Awaji Station, 6 km
  • Osaka → Settsu
    13 km · quickest by road, 47 min · ¥185–255
  • Tokushima → Settsu
    123 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · ¥1,850–2,520
  • Tokoname → Settsu
    114 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · ¥1,870–2,550
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Settsu

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOsaka International Ferry Terminal is in Nankō (南港) in the Osaka Bay Area.
  • Get inThe PanStar Line operates a ferry between Osaka and Busan.
  • Get inThe ferry leaves Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, at 15:10 from both Osaka and Busan and arrives the following day at 10:00.
  • Get inThe ferry holds live musical performances, magic shows, and other entertainment on the run.
  • Get inYou can take your car on the ferry, but there are documentation requirements.

From Wikivoyage: Osaka, 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
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    871 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,236 km
  3. 03
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,491 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,604 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,771 km

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

Around it

Next door to Settsu

Settsu is 5 km from Suita, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Suitacity in Osaka Prefecture, Japan4.6 km
  • Hirakatacity in Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan9.1 km
  • Toyonakacity in Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan8.5 km
  • Takatsukicity in Ōsaka prefecture, Japan9.2 km
  • Neyagawacity in Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan6.1 km
  • Ibarakicity in Ōsaka prefecture, Japan 8.8 km