One day in Kawagoe, Japan

A day through Kawagoe’s best-known sights that lie close together: Kita-in Temple, Kawagoe Castle, Kawagoe City Art Museum, Hikawa Shrine and Kawagoe Festival Museum. 5 stops, about 1.9 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Kita-in TempleTemple or shrine · On the map
  2. Kawagoe CastleCastle · 0.8 km on from Kita-in Temple · On the map
  3. Kawagoe City Art MuseumMuseum · 0.2 km on from Kawagoe Castle · On the map
  4. Hikawa ShrineTemple or shrine · 0.3 km on from Kawagoe City Art Museum · On the map
  5. Kawagoe Festival MuseumMuseum · 0.7 km on from Hikawa Shrine · On the map

5 stops, 2.6 km on foot along the streets: about 32 min of walking.

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Photo credits

Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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