Sokehs
Sokehs is a municipality on the main island in the state of Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia.
Sokehs is a municipality on the main island in the state of Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. It consists of 21 villages. One of them is Palikir, the federal capital. Another is Pakin Atoll, an atoll some 30 km northwest of the main island of Pohnpei. Since 1985, the former, depopulated Oroluk Atoll and close by Minto Reef became part of Sokehs municipality.
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Worth seeing in and around Sokehs
One place 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.
- 01Japanese Shrine
The Japanese Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Kolonia, the capital of Pohnpei State in the Federated States of Micronesia. The official name at that time was Japanese: 南洋庁ポナペ国民学校奉安殿, romanized: Nan'yō Chō Ponape Kokumin Gakkō Hō-an-den, lit. 'Nan'yō Government Ponape National School Hōanden'.
2.9 km · Shinto shrine in Kolonia, Japan · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sokehs
- Stations
- Pohnpei International Airport, 2.9 km
- Okat → SokehsTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Weno Island → Sokehs663 km · quickest by road, 4 min · $0
- Majuro Atoll → SokehsTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- 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 Sokehs
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 Sokehs. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundEven though there are no scheduled bus services on the island, some buses are available to hire or charter.
From Wikivoyage: Federated States of Micronesia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Sokehs
- Koloniatown in Micronesia2.4 km