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# Tsuchiura

Tsuchiura is a city in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

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## Every way there

- Tokyo → Tsuchiura 65 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · ¥900–1,230 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tokyo-to-tsuchiura) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tokyo&to=Tsuchiura)
- Makinohara / Shimada → Tsuchiura 232 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · ¥3,110–4,250 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/makinohara-shimada-to-tsuchiura) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Makinohara+%2F+Shimada&to=Tsuchiura)
- Niigata → Tsuchiura 229 km · quickest by road, 4h 40m · ¥3,590–4,890 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/niigata-to-tsuchiura) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Niigata&to=Tsuchiura)

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 Tsuchiura, 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 Tsuchiura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tsuchiura)

What Tsuchiura has

- Y Scheduled flights Omitama (IBR), 23 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 515 timetable feeds for this country, 99 with real-time
- Y Ferries ferry terminal, 23 km; 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.

36.067°, 140.200°

As of 1 January 2024, the city has an estimated population of 142,181 people in 66,629 households, and a population density of 1,157 persons per squate kilometre. The proportion of the population aged over 65 was 29.7%. The total area of the city is 122.89 square kilometres (47.45 sq mi). About 3,000 residents are non-Japanese, a large proportion of whom are Filipino, Chinese, or Brazilian.

Get in

## Getting to Tsuchiura

Tsuchiura is on the JR Joban Line, which starts at Ueno station in Tokyo.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuchiura) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Tsuchiura), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: 財団エックス (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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