Takasu
Takasu is a town in Kamikawa Subprefecture in Hokkaido, Japan.
Takasu is a town in Kamikawa Subprefecture in Hokkaido, Japan. Translated into English, Takasu means "hawk's nest," the original Ainu name for the town. As of 25 February 2025, the town had an estimated population of 6,441 in 3071 households, and a population density of 21 people per km2. The total area of the town is 139.42 km2 (53.83 sq mi).
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Worth seeing in and around Takasu
3 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.
- 01Yasushi Inoue Memorial Hall
The Yasushi Inoue Memorial Hall opened in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1993. Dedicated to author Yasushi Inoue, born in Asahikawa in 1907, the museum displays some five hundred items from its collection of a thousand objects, mostly books.
4.3 km · museum in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan · Wikipedia - 02Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture
Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture in Honor of Teijiro Nakahara is a sculpture museum in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan. The building was called the Asahikawa Kaikōsha and used as the officer's social club by the 7th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1902 until 1945.
4.3 km · sculpture museum in Hokkaidō, Japan · Wikipedia - 03Asahikawa City General Gymnasium
Asahikawa City General Gymnasium is an arena in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan.
5.9 km · arena in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan · Wikipedia
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Getting to Takasu
- Airports
- New Chitose (CTS), 130 km · Hakodate (HKD), 262 km
- Stations
- Asahikawa Air Field, 5.5 km
- Sapporo → Takasu118 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · ¥1,510–2,060
- Hakodate → Takasu265 km · quickest by road, 6h 25m · ¥4,320–5,900
- Aomori → Takasu362 km · quickest by road, 10h 51m · ¥6,300–8,600
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Takasu
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 Takasu. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Takasu – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Takasu
Takasu is 8 km from Asahikawa, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.