Kanagawa Prefecture · Japan
Where to stay in Kawasaki
Kawasaki is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, home to about 1,540,000 people. This guide covers 4 hotels in Kawasaki.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 4
- Nearest airport
- HND8 km · Tokyo Haneda International Airport
- Currency
- JPYyen
- Time zone
- Asia/Tokyo
- Language
- Japanese
About
About Kawasaki
Kawasaki, officially Kawasaki City, is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. It is the second most populated city in Kanagawa Prefecture after Yokohama, and the eighth most populated city in Japan.
Kawasaki has been an important city of trade since the days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, as a stop on the Tokaido road between Tokyo and Kyoto. With a population of over 1.5 million (2020), Kawasaki is the ninth most populated city in Japan, but it's sandwiched between Japan's two largest cities, Tokyo and Yokohama, and consequently ignored by the vast majority of tourists zooming between the two.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Kawasaki
See
Kawasaki is largely an industrial area and residential suburb — as typical in Japan, not much distinction between the two is made. But there's one very large temple and one very offbeat shrine to draw in the occasional curious tourist.
- Kawasaki Daishi
- Wakamiya Hachiman-gū Shrine
- Japan Open-air Folk House Museum
Do
- More's
- Kawasaki Racecourse
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Kawasaki
4 places to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
Where to stay
Which part of Kawasaki to stay in
The Kawasaki Station area is a convenient place to stay if you are visiting Tokyo or Yokohama, due to being able to conveniently access either city through the JR Keihin-Touhoku, JR Tokaido and Keikyu lines. Outside of the central business districts there's a large highwayside cluster of motels in Shin-Maruko, near the Tama River.
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Where to stay
More hotels in Kawasaki
6 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Kawasaki Nikko Hotel Okura Nikko Hotel Management | 1964 | 0.6 km |
| Hotel Metropolitan Kawasaki | 0.7 km | |
| Keikyu Ex Inn Keikyu Kawasaki Station | 0.3 km | |
| Pearl Hotel Kawasaki | 0.5 km | |
| Slash Kawasaki | 0.3 km | |
| Sotetsu Fresa Inn Kawasaki-Higashiguchi | 0.1 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Kawasaki
Kawasaki has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 32 °C; September is the wettest, with about 200 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Kawasaki: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Tokyo Haneda International Airport (HND), about 7.9 km from the city centre in a straight line; Narita International Airport (NRT, 67 km) and Oshima Airport (OIM, 89 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
To reach Kawasaki from Narita Airport (NRT), take the JR Narita Express to Shinagawa and transfer to the Tokaido Line. This takes about 90 minutes and the trip is covered by the Japan Rail Pass and JR East Rail Pass. Without a pass the one-way fare is ¥3280. The N'EX Tokyo Direct Ticket is only sold in a round-trip version for ¥4000. The transfer from Shinagawa station is easier than Tokyo station. A cheaper way of traveling from Narita Airport is by using a combination of commuter trains on the Keisei Railway, Toei Asakusa Subway Line and Keikyu Line.
Getting around
The surprisingly rustic Keikyū Daishi Line (京急大師線) putters through people's backyards, and is useful for the three-stop trip from Keikyu Kawasaki to Kawasaki Daishi. From Shinagawa, it takes about 20 minutes total at a cost of ¥230. You really don't need a car to travel in Kawasaki, especially since trains make it easy to get in and get around. Nevertheless, Toyota, Nissan and Nippon Rentacar have car rental facilities between Kawasaki Station and Route 15 should you need it.
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HND · Tokyo Haneda International Airport
NRT · Narita International Airport
OIM · Oshima Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Kawasaki
Eat
Previously long thought of as a working-class, blue collar, industrial city with little to offer in terms of the sophistication of Tokyo or the internationalized flair of Yokohama, central Kawasaki was revitalized and is a modern city. The area around the station is quite clean and modern, very safe and convenient and offers good value in terms of eating establishments. You will not find much in the way of notable or must-eat culinary restaurants but you will find very competent and reasonable dining, particularly on the east side of the station and in the Azalea Underground Arcade connected to the east exit of the station, where about 40 restaurants line on a straight corridor.
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Questions
Kawasaki: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Kawasaki?
Kawasaki has no month that is both mild and dry by the measure used here. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 32 °C; September is the wettest, with about 200 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Kawasaki?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Tokyo Haneda International Airport (HND), about 7.9 km from the city centre in a straight line; Narita International Airport (NRT, 67 km) and Oshima Airport (OIM, 89 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Kawasaki?
yen (JPY).
Nearby
Destinations near Kawasaki
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.