Shimotoda
Worth seeing in and around Shimotoda
10 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.
- 01Elsa Tower 55
The Elsa Tower 55 is a residential skyscraper located in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Completed in 1998, it stands at 186 m tall.
4.6 km · skyscraper · Wikipedia - 02Nishigaoka Soccer Stadium
Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka, originally called Nishigaoka Soccer Stadium, is a football stadium in Kita, Tokyo. It was renamed on 1 May 2012 after the naming rights by Ajinomoto expired after five years.
5.5 km · building in Nishigaoka, Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia - 03Akatsuka Park
Akatsuka Park is a public park in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, Japan. The ruins of Akatsuka Castle can be found at the west end of the park.
4.2 km · park in Itabashi-ku, Japan · Wikipedia - 04Itabashi Botanical Garden
The Itabashi Botanical Garden is an indoor botanical garden located at 8-29-2 Takashimadaira, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan. There is also an aquarium on site.
3.2 km · indoor botanical garden in Japan · Wikipedia - 05Akatsuka Botanical Garden
The Akatsuka Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 5-17-14 Akatsuka, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan. It is open daily.
5.3 km · garden in Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia - 06Kawaguchi Green Center
The Kawaguchi Green Center, sometimes also called the Botanical Garden of Kawaguchi-City, is a city park and botanical garden located at Araijuku 700, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan. Admission is 300 yen for adults and 100 yen for children.
5 km · city park and botanical garden located in Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan · Wikipedia - 07Sakitama Bridge
The Sakitama Bridge is a road bridge on Japan National Route 298 and the Tokyo Gaikan Expressway that spans the Arakawa/Shingashi River and the Arakawa Adjustment Pond between Bijogi, Toda and Niikura, Wakō in Saitama Prefecture. It is also known as Kotamabashi.
5.4 km · bridge in Japan · Wikipedia - 08Urawa Racecourse
Urawa Racecourse is a racecourse located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
4.9 km · racecourse in Saitama Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 09Kawaguchi Museum of Art
Kawaguchi Museum of Art is scheduled to open in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan, in September 2026. The collection, numbering some 220 items as of January 2026, includes works by Yokoyama Taikan, Kaburaki Kiyokata, and Nushi Shōichirō.
3.2 km · art museum in Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan · Wikipedia - 10Akabane Nature Observatory Park
Akabane Nature Observatory Park is a public park for viewing nature in Kita Ward, Tokyo, Japan.
5.1 km · park in Kita, Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shimotoda
- Airports
- Tokyo Haneda (HND), 31 km · Narita (NRT), 64 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 77 km
- Stations
- Akabane Station, 5.2 km · Kawaguchi Station, 3.2 km · Warabi Station, 1.5 km · Nishi-Kawaguchi Station, 1.7 km · Minami-Urawa Station, 3.9 km
- Narita → Shimotoda57 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · ¥870–1,190
- Omitama → Shimotoda76 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · ¥980–1,340
- Makinohara / Shimada → Shimotoda176 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · ¥2,400–3,270
- 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 Shimotoda
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 Shimotoda. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHitchhiking into Tokyo is pretty easy, but hitchhiking out is considerably more difficult.
- Get inIt's definitely possible for determined cheapskates though, see Hitchhiking in Japan for a detailed list of tested escape routes from the city.
- Get inKokusai Kogyo Bus (国際興業バス) Keisei Bus (京成バス) Keikyu Bus (京急バス) Keio Bus (Japanese Website) (京王バス) Kanto Bus (関東バス) Nishi Tokyo Bus (Japanese Website) (西東京バス) Odakyu Bus (Japanese Website) (小田急バス) Odakyu Highway Bus (小田急ハイウェイバス) Seibu Bus (西武バス) Tobu Bus (Japanese Website) (東武バス) Tohoku Kyuko Bus (東北急行バス) One of the great ports of the world, Tokyo also has domestic ferry services to other points in Japan.
- Get inHowever, none of the regular international ferries to Japan call at Tokyo.
- Get inThe main long-distance ferry terminal is , on an artificial island adjacent to Odaiba in Tokyo Bay.
From Wikivoyage: Tokyo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Shimotoda
Shimotoda is 3 km from Kawaguchi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kawaguchicity in Saitama Prefecture, Japan3.6 km
- Todacity in Saitama Prefecture, Japan700 m
- Warabicity in Saitama Prefecture, Japan1.3 km
- Hatogayadissolved municipality in Saitama prefecture, Japan (1950-2011)5.2 km
- Minami-kuone of the 10 wards of Saitama City, Saitama prefecture5.1 km
- Akabaneneighborhood in Kita-ku, Tokyo5.1 km