Along the Tama River's western bank, the city presses hard against Tokyo — trains running south from Kawasaki Station every few minutes, platforms thick with commuters at any hour. Yet the city is not simply absorbed into that gravitational pull. It holds its own industrial weight: blast furnaces and machine plants along the reclaimed shoreline, the names of JFE and Toshiba embedded in the landscape as much as any shrine gate.
The older textures surface inland. At Oji-zenji, a temple in the hills, stands the origin tree of Zenjimaru柿 — a sweet persimmon variety recorded as far back as 1214, the oldest known sweet persimmon in Japan. Not far away, the Nikaryō Yōsui, a canal completed in 1611, still threads through residential neighborhoods, its stone-edged banks now a walking path where locals pass without much ceremony. Inside Ikuta Ryokuchi, the open-air museum Nihon Minka-en has gathered farmhouses and merchant buildings from across the country, their heavy thatched roofs standing quiet among the trees, each structure catalogued as a cultural property.
Music and industry share the same postal codes here. Mūza Kawasaki Symphony Hall anchors one side of the station; CLUB CITTA', a live music venue with decades of history, sits in the streets nearby. The Kanamara Matsuri draws its own crowds each year. Kawasaki is dense, layered, and not particularly concerned with being picturesque — which is, perhaps, exactly why it repays attention.
Where to stay
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What converges here
10 in this city. 241 within 25 km of the city hall.
- Tokaido Kawasaki Shuku Koryukan
- Kawasaki Ukiyo-e Gallery
- Kawasaki Peace Museum
- Kawasaki City Museum
- Train and Bus Museum
See the nearest 25
- Fujiko·F·Fujio Museum
- Nihon Minka-en
- Taro Okamoto Museum of Art
- the Defunct Imperial Japanese Army Noborito Laboratory Museum for Education in Peace, Meiji University
- Masayoshi Nakamura Museum
- Museum of Life in the Shōwa Era
- Ryūshi Memorial Museum
- Folk Museum of Ōta City
- Sannō Sōdō Memorial Museum
- Tamagawadai Park Kofun Tomb Exhibition Room
- Shinagawa Historical Museum
- Katsu Kaishū Memorial Museum
- Nikon Museum
- Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum
- Japan Coast Guard Museum Yokohama
- Yokohama Anpanman Children's Museum
- Sogō Museum of Art
- Keikyū Museum
- Japanese Overseas Migration Museum
- CupNoodles Museum Yokohama
- Hara Model Railway Museum
- Yumesaki Gallery
- Yokohama Museum of Art
- Terrada Art Complex
- Yokohama Silk Museum
Distances are straight-line from the municipal office. Each website was checked in September 2026. Some locations © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Former Ito Family Residence (formerly located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Kawasaki City, Kanehodo)
- Former Sasaki Family Residence (formerly in Nagano Prefecture, Saku-gun, Yachiho Village)
- Former Sakuta Family Residence
- Former Kitamura Family Residence (formerly located in Horiyamashita, Hadano, Kanagawa)
- Former Ota Family Residence (formerly Ibaraki Prefecture, Kasama City, Kataniwa)
- Former Ota Family Residence (formerly in Kataniwa, Kasama, Ibaraki)
- Former Emuko Residence (formerly from Kamitaira-mura, Higashitonami-gun, Toyama)
- Former Sakuta Residence (formerly in Kujukuri-machi, Sanbu-gun, Chiba)
- Former Kudo Family Residence (formerly in Shiwa-cho, Shiwa-gun, Iwate Prefecture)
- Nikaryō Yōsui
- Zenjiromaru Kaki (Persimmon)
- Kawasaki
- Mizonokuchi
- Musashi-Kosugi
- Musashi-Kosugi
- Noborito
- Musashi-Mizonokuchi
- Noborito
- Keikyu-Kawasaki
- Shin-Yurigaoka
- Musashi-Shinjo
- Saginuma
- Motosumiyoshi
- Mukogaoka-Yuen
- Musashi-Nakahara
- Hatchonawate
- Hatchonawate
- Keio-Inadazutsumi
- Shin-Kawasaki
- Miyazakidai
- Inadazutsumi
- Miyamaedaira
- Ikuta
- Kajigaya
- Kakio
- Kashimada
- Yomiuriland-Mae
- Takatsu
- Shitte
- Nakanoshima
- Kuji
- Hirama
- Shin-Maruko
- Wakabadai
- Kurihira
- Kojima-Shinden
- Yurigaoka
- Futako-Shinchi
- Kawasaki-Daishi
- Shukugawara
- Mukogaoka-Yuen
- Higashimonzen
- Suzukicho
- Daishibashi
- Haruhino
- Satsukidai
- Kurokawa
- Minatomachi
- Tsudayama
- Keikyu-Kawasaki
- Okawa
- Odaei
- Kawasaki
- Kawasaki-Shinmachi
- Ogimachi
- Shin-Yurigaoka
- Showa
- Musashi-Kosugi
- Musashi-Shiraishi
- Hamakawasaki
- Hamakawasaki