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![Hongo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Yasuda_Auditorium.jpg)

# Hongo

Hongō (本郷) is a district of Tokyo located in Bunkyō, due north of the Tokyo Imperial Palace and west of Ueno.

[Plan a trip to Hongo](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Hongo) [From Narita](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Narita&to=Hongo)

## Every way there

- Narita → Hongo 41 km · quickest by road, 52 min · ¥540–740 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/narita-to-hongo) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Narita&to=Hongo)
- Omitama → Hongo 93 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · ¥1,320–1,800 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/omitama-to-hongo) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Omitama&to=Hongo)
- Makinohara / Shimada → Hongo 53 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · ¥910–1,250 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/makinohara-shimada-to-hongo) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Makinohara+%2F+Shimada&to=Hongo)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Hongo, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Hongo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hongo)

What Hongo has

- Y Scheduled flights Tokyo (HND), 18 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 515 timetable feeds for this country, 99 with real-time
- Y Ferries 浅草, 4 km, 東京都観光汽船株式会社; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

35.707°, 139.760°

How locals move

## Getting around Hongo the local way

- Go next The street markets and museums of Ueno are directly west of Asakusa, while Sumida of Skytree and sumo fame is immediately across the river.
- Go next Asakusa is a large Tokyo hub of the private Tobu railway, and you can be transported to a different world in two hours: Ashikaga Kinugawa — a hot-spring resort fallen on hard times Nikko — with its national parks and opulent shrines Tatebayashi Tochigi — A worthwhile day trip from Tokyo for its preserved architecture and old shops.

From [Wikivoyage: Tokyo/Asakusa](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tokyo%2FAsakusa), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%C5%8D%2C_Tokyo), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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