One day in Kumamoto, Japan

A day through Kumamoto’s best-known sights that lie close together: Fujisaki Hachimangū, Katō Shrine, Kumamoto Castle, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Shimada Museum of Art and Honmyō-ji Temple. 6 stops, about 4.3 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Fujisaki HachimangūTemple or shrine · On the map
  2. Katō ShrineTemple or shrine · 1.2 km on from Fujisaki Hachimangū · On the map
  3. Kumamoto CastleCastle · 0.3 km on from Katō Shrine · On the map
  4. Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of ArtMuseum · 0.5 km on from Kumamoto Castle · On the map
  5. Shimada Museum of ArtMuseum · 1.4 km on from Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art · On the map
  6. Honmyō-ji TempleTemple or shrine · 0.8 km on from Shimada Museum of Art · On the map

6 stops, about 4.3 km between them in straight lines.

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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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