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Town in Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Shisui

Shisui is a town located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.As of 1 December 2020, the town had an estimated population of 20,660 in 9,888 households and a population density of 1,100 persons per km2.

Shisui
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The place

Shisui is a town located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.As of 1 December 2020, the town had an estimated population of 20,660 in 9,888 households and a population density of 1,100 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 19.02 square kilometres (7.34 mi2).

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shisui

5 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
    National Museum of Japanese History

    The National Museum of Japanese History, commonly known in Japanese as Rekihaku, is a history museum in Sakura, Chiba, Japan. The museum was founded in 1981 as an inter-university research consortium, and opened in 1983.

    4.4 km · museum in Japan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sakura Castle

    Sakura Castle was a 17th-century castle, now in ruins, in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture. It was designated one of Japan's Top 100 Castles by the Japanese Castle Foundation.

    4.5 km · ruins of a 17th-century castle in Sakura (Chinese Prefecture) · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Moto Sakura Castle

    Moto Sakura Castle was a Muromachi period "hirayama"-style castle located on the border of the town of Shisui and the city of Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins been protected as a National Historic Site since 1998.

    1.4 km · castle ruins in Inba District, Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Jindai-ji Temple

    Jindai-ji is a Buddhist temple located in the city of Sakura in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The temple was originally located in Yamagata Prefecture, but when the Hotta clan was granted control of the Sakura Domain, Hotta Masasuke moved the temple in 1746 to serve as the clan's funerary temple, or family temple.

    1.7 km · Buddhist temple in Chiba Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sumi Furusawa Site

    The Sumi Furusawa site is an archaeological site with the traces of a Japanese Paleolithic period settlement located in what is now the Sumi neighborhood of the town of Shisui, Chiba in the Kantō region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 2019.

    2 km · archaeological site in Japan · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Shisui

Airports
Narita (NRT), 12 km · Tokyo Haneda (HND), 47 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 53 km
Stations
Keisei Shisui Station, 2.2 km · Keisei-Sakura Station, 3.5 km · Sakura Station, 3.7 km · Ōsakura Station, 2.1 km · Kōzunomori Station, 5.5 km
  • Tokyo → Shisui
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · ¥720–980
  • Omitama → Shisui
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · ¥910–1,250
  • Makinohara / Shimada → Shisui
    214 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · ¥2,880–3,930
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shisui

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

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,250 km
  2. 02
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,277 km
  3. 03
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,622 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    2,002 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    2,201 km

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Around it

Next door to Shisui

Shisui is 19 km from Chiba, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sakuracity in Chiba Prefecture, Japan3.9 km