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Resort town in Wakayama, Japan

Wakayama Marina City

Wakayama Marina City is a resort town built on an artificial island of 49 hectares in size, in Wakaura Bay, part of the larger Osaka Bay.

Wakayama Marina City
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The place

Wakayama Marina City is a resort town built on an artificial island of 49 hectares in size, in Wakaura Bay, part of the larger Osaka Bay. It is also part of Wakayama-shi (City) Wakayama-ken (Prefecture) on the Kansai Peninsula, about a forty-minute train ride south of the Kansai International Airport, which is itself built on an artificial island. The nearest large city is Osaka, Japan, about an hour by train to the north.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wakayama Marina City

6 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
    Chōhō-ji Temple

    Chōhō-ji is a Buddhist temple in the city of Kainan, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. It belongs to the Tendai school of Japanese Buddhism.

    5.9 km · Buddhist temple in Kainan, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kamayama Shrine

    Kamayama Shrine is a Shinto shrine in the city of Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.

    5 km · Shinto shrine in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kimii-dera Temple

    Kimii-dera is a Buddhist temple located in the city of Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. It is the head temple of the Kusei Kannon sect of Japanese Buddhism and its honzon is a hibutsu image of Jūichimen Kannon.

    2.8 km · Buddhist temple dedicated to Eleven-Faced Avalokiteśvara in Wakayama, Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kimiidera Athletic Stadium

    Kimiidera Athletic Stadium is an athletic stadium in Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan.

    1.2 km · building in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kimiidera Park

    Kimiidera Park is a park and athletics facility in Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.

    1.3 km · sports park in Wakayama, Japan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kishū Tōshō-gū

    Kishū Tōshō-gū is a Shinto shrine located in the city of Wakayama Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. It enshrines the deified first Shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu.

    3.7 km · shrine in Wakayama, Wakayama · 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.

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Getting to Wakayama Marina City

Airports
Kansai (KIX), 30 km · Kobe (UKB), 53 km · Tokushima Awaodori / JMSDF Tokushima Air Base (TKS), 53 km
Stations
Kainan Station, 3.3 km · Kimiidera Station, 3.1 km · Kamogō Station, 4.3 km · Kuroe Station, 3 km · Miyamae Station, 5.8 km
  • Kobe → Wakayama Marina City
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Tokushima → Wakayama Marina City
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Osaka → Wakayama Marina City
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wakayama Marina City

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe other station, Wakayamako, is adjacent to the Nankai Ferry terminal where ships operate to/from Tokushima.
  • Get inNankai ferry operates daily service to and from Tokushima in Shikoku to Wakayama Port.
  • Get inFerries arrive in about 2 hours at a much-reduced cost of ¥2000.

From Wikivoyage: Wakayama, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    868 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,162 km
  3. 03
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,532 km
  4. 04
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,567 km
  5. 05
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,708 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wakayama Marina City

Wakayama Marina City is 7 km from Minato, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kainancity in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan5.5 km
  • Shimotsudissolved municipality in Kaisō district, Wakayama prefecture, Japan4.5 km