How walkable is Naka-ku?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Naka-ku has a walkability score of 95 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the most walkable of 1 neighbourhoods ranked in Hiroshima, which scores 76 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
4,786 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Naka-ku. The nearest grocery is 瀬川商店, about 2 minutes away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
- フレスタ4 min
- FRESTA おかず工房 鷹野橋店4 min
- リトルマーメイド1 min
- ほっともっと 広島中区役所前店1 min
- Miu Miu1 min
- エスマイル薬局 なか調剤店1 min
- てらにし珈琲店国泰寺店2 min
- Choueccha2 min
- 広島銀行大手町支店4 min
- 広島信用金庫鷹野橋千田支店7 min
- 大手町第二公園4 min
- 平和大通り 緑地帯6 min
- 広島市立国泰寺中学校5 min
- 広島市役所大手町商業高等学校5 min
- 丸善広島支店8 min
- ブックオフスーパーバザー広島大手町11 min
- Live Juke8 min
- 頼山陽史跡資料館10 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Naka-ku at 34.3863, 132.4550. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 194 street intersections per km², and blocks average 72 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Naka-ku
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 2 km around the centre of Naka-ku. Rings mark 1 km and 2 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Questions about walking in Naka-ku
Is Naka-ku walkable?
Yes. Naka-ku in Hiroshima has a walkability score of 95 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Naka-ku more walkable than the rest of Hiroshima?
Naka-ku is more walkable than Hiroshima as a whole: it scores 95, against 76 for the 5 km around Hiroshima's centre. It ranks 1st of the 1 Hiroshima neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
How is the walkability score of Naka-ku calculated?
The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Naka-ku it is the average of 60 points spread evenly across the 2 km around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.