 Discover Kawasaki (川崎市), Japan
Kawasaki, Japan
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Kawasaki (川崎市) is a city in the Kanagawa prefecture of Japan. It is within the Greater Tokyo Area. The city has a population of 1,385,000 people, making it the 9th largest city in Japan. It is on the south side of the Tama River, which separates it from Tokyo.
Guide to Kawasaki Hotels
Here's a list of hotels in Kawasaki that you can book online, with full description, star rating, address, location map, evaluation, and prices as offered by different booking sites.
More on Kawasaki
Kawasaki has been in important trading post since the feudal times. It was a stopover point on the Tokaido Road between Tokyo and Kyoto. Sandwiched between Tokyo and Yokohama, Kawasaki enjoyed some spillover development from these two big cities.
Many tourists often bypass Kawasaki on their way to Tokyo or Yokohama. Those who do stopover at Kawasaki will be delighted to find many interesting tourist attractions, including a famous Buddhist temple - one of the top three most visited by the Japanese during New Year celebrations, a Shinto fertility shrine and an excellent open-air museum.
Budget Travel to Kawasaki
You can get to Kawasaki by taking a train from Tokyo. The Tokaido and Keihin-Tohoku trains stop at the JR Kawasaki station. The Tokaido is the faster of the two, albeit by only a bit. From Tokyo Station, it only takes 15 minutes to reach JR Kawasaki station, compared with 22 minutes with the Keihin-Tohoku. Both trains have the same fare, ¥290.
Going in the opposite direction, you can also take the Tokaido and Keihin-Tohoku trains from Yokohama to Kawasaki. It only takes 7 minutes on the Tokaido and 13 minutes on the Keihin-Tohoku, and the fare is ¥210.
Budget Travel within Kawasaki
The most practical way to move about in Kawasaki is to take the train. Check the maps in the train stations for the routes in Kawasaki.
Photos of Kawasaki
Temple in Kawasaki, Japan
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Wakamiya Hachiman-gu, Kawasaki
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Places of Interest in Kawasaki
- Kawasaki Daishi
Also known as Heikenji Temple, this is one of the biggest temples in Kawasaki. It is dedicated to Kobo Daishi, the famous Japanese monk/scholar/poet/artist.
- Wakamiya Hachiman-gu Shrine
One of the most astounding shrines in Japan, where the venerated deity is a huge iron phallus.
- Japan Open-Air Folk House Museum
Museum displaying some twenty traditional Japanese houses from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries, brought from different parts of the country.
Festivals in Kawasaki
- Kanamara Matsuri
Also called the Iron Penis Festival, this is when a procession of floats laden with the phallus are paraded through the streets of Kawasaki.
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