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title: "Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki walkability score: 87/100"
description: "Miyamae-ku in Kawasaki scores 87/100 for walkability (Very Walkable). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Kawasaki."
url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/kawasaki/miyamae-ku
updated: 2026-10-22
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
---

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4.  Miyamae-ku

# How walkable is Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki?

By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 

Miyamae-ku has a walkability score of 87 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the least walkable of the 4 neighbourhoods ranked in Kawasaki, which scores 85 as a whole.

87 out of 100: Very Walkable

Most errands can be accomplished on foot.

*   #4 of 4 in Kawasaki
*   85 Kawasaki overall
*   96 at the centre

[Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=35.58917&lon=139.57870&q=Miyamae-ku%2C%20Kawasaki) 

## What's within walking distance

777 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Miyamae-ku. The nearest grocery is about a minute away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, parks, schools and books & libraries.

### Groceries

3.0 of 3 points

*   宮前平東急ストア, 1 min
*   いなげや 川崎土橋店, 3 min
*   生活クラブ 宮前平デポー, 5 min

### Restaurants & bars

3.0 of 3 points

*   レストランみやまえ, 1 min
*   茶寮游旬, 1 min
*   カレーハウス CoCo壱番屋, 1 min

### Shopping

2.0 of 2 points

*   宮前平薬局, 1 min
*   PRINT Studio NIXX, 1 min
*   クリエイトSD 川崎宮前区役所前店, 2 min

### Coffee

1.8 of 2 points

*   カフェ ノータノーヴァ, 3 min
*   KEY’S CAFE 川崎宮前平店, 9 min
*   あ.じゃすと, 10 min

### Banks

0.8 of 1 point

*   セレサ川崎農業協同組合（ＪＡセレサ川崎） 宮前平支店, 8 min
*   城南信用金庫鷺沼支店, 18 min
*   セレサ川崎農業協同組合（ＪＡセレサ川崎） 鷺沼支店, 19 min

### Parks

1.0 of 1 point

*   宮前平公園, 3 min
*   土橋1丁目公園, 4 min
*   神木公園, 6 min

### Schools

1.0 of 1 point

*   野川中学校, 1 min
*   川崎市立富士見台小学校, 2 min
*   宮前平中学校, 7 min

### Books & libraries

1.0 of 1 point

*   宮前図書館, 1 min
*   勝木書店, 3 min
*   Kabos Miyamaedaira, 3 min

### Culture & entertainment

0.7 of 1 point

*   カラオケファンタジー宮前平, 10 min
*   電車とバスの博物館, 20 min
*   カラオケ コート・ダジュール, 21 min

Measured from the mapped centre of Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki at 35.5892, 139.5787. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.

## Street layout

Within 800 m of the centre there are about 170 street intersections per km², and blocks average 81 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.

## Walkability across Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki

![Walkability scores across the 2 km around the centre of Miyamae-ku. 98% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 69, is 2 km to the north.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/japan/kawasaki/miyamae-ku.svg?v=bc568ad60651)

Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 2 km around the centre of Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki. Rings mark 1 km and 2 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.

## Nearby neighbourhoods in Kawasaki

| Neighbourhood                                     | Distance | Score |
| ------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ----- |
| [Takatsu-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/kawasaki/takatsu-ku)   | 2.9 km   | 90    |
| [Nakahara-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/kawasaki/nakahara-ku) | 7.1 km   | 92    |
| [Saiwai-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/kawasaki/saiwai-ku)     | 11 km    | 93    |

See every neighbourhood ranked on the [Kawasaki page](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/kawasaki#neighbourhoods).

## Questions about walking in Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki

### Is Miyamae-ku walkable?

Yes. Miyamae-ku in Kawasaki has a walkability score of 87 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.

### Is Miyamae-ku more walkable than the rest of Kawasaki?

Miyamae-ku is about as walkable as Kawasaki as a whole: it scores 87, against 85 for the 5 km around Kawasaki's centre. It is the least walkable of the 4 neighbourhoods ranked in Kawasaki on How Walkable.

### What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Kawasaki?

Of the 4 Kawasaki neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Saiwai-ku (93), Nakahara-ku (92) and Takatsu-ku (90).

### How is the walkability score of Miyamae-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 Miyamae-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. It measures what is within a walk, not what the walk is like: pavements, traffic, safety, hills and heat are not part of the score.

This page is generated from open map data with a published walkability method, explained in the [methodology](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.

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