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Tachiarai

Tachiarai is a town located in Mii District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Tachiarai
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The place

Tachiarai is a town located in Mii District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 January 2024, the town had an estimated population of 16,065 in 6283 households, and a population density of 700 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 22.84 km2 (8.82 sq mi).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tachiarai

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
    Zendo-ji Temple

    Buddhist temple dedicated to Amitābha Buddha in Kurume, Japan

    5 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tanabata Shrine

    Shinto shrine in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

    5.8 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tachiarai Peace Memorial Museum

    Japanese aviation museum in Asakura, Fukuoka

    4.5 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ogōri Kanga ruins

    Archaeological site in Japan

    5 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hiratsuka Kawazoe Site

    Archaeological site in Asakura, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

    3.6 km · 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 Tachiarai

Airports
Fukuoka (FUK), 29 km · Kyushu Saga (HSG), 39 km · Kumamoto (KMJ), 63 km
Stations
Amagi Station, 6 km · Kamiura Station, 3.3 km · Imaguma Station, 4.4 km · Zendōji Station, 5.9 km · Chikugo-Kusano Station, 5.9 km
  • Kumamoto → Tachiarai
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · ¥920–1,260
  • Kitakyushu → Tachiarai
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · ¥760–1,040
  • Nagasaki → Tachiarai
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · ¥1,440–1,970
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tachiarai

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTimes and prices for other destinations from Tosu are as follows: Kurume: 8 minutes, ¥230 Kumamoto: 1 hour 30 minutes, ¥1650 Saga (Limited Express): 20 minutes, ¥1280 Saga (local train): 30 minutes, ¥460 Nagasaki (Limited Express Kamome): 1 hour 30 minutes, ¥4230 There is a nimai-kippu which allows a day trip on the Shinkansen from Shin-Tosu to Hakata (or Yoshizuka) for ¥2260.

From Wikivoyage: Tosu, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-03.

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    587 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    857 km
  3. 03
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,189 km
  4. 04
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,301 km
  5. 05
    Orchid Island (Lanyu)TW

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    1,542 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tachiarai

Tachiarai is 12 km from Kurume, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Mii districtdistrict in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan2.3 km
  • Kitanodissolved municipality in Mii district, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan4.6 km