How walkable is Kita-ku, Sakai?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Kita-ku has a walkability score of 85 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 only neighbourhood ranked in Sakai, which scores 82 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
710 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Kita-ku. The nearest grocery is about 3 minutes away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
Groceries
- イオンスタイル新金岡, 4 min
- イオンスタイル 新金岡, 4 min
Restaurants & bars
- きまぐれダイニング 洋, 2 min
- 焼鳥居酒屋彦右衛門新金岡店, 2 min
Shopping
- 新金岡薬局, 1 min
- ファミリーマート, 1 min
Coffee
- カフェ ミント, 3 min
- 喫茶店 Mari&co., 3 min
Banks
- 堺市農業協同組合（ＪＡ堺市） 金岡支所, 11 min
- 日本政策金融公庫 堺支店, 20 min
Parks
- 新金岡町ブリック公園, 3 min
- おさる公園, 4 min
Schools
- わんぱく保育園, 6 min
- 大泉小学校, 10 min
Books & libraries
- WAY書店, 3 min
- Book Off, 6 min
Culture & entertainment
- ジャンカラ 新金岡店, 3 min
- MOVIX 堺浜, 19 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Kita-ku, Sakai at 34.5655, 135.5172. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 167 street intersections per km², and blocks average 75 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Kita-ku, Sakai
- 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 Kita-ku, Sakai. Rings mark 1 km and 2 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Questions about walking in Kita-ku, Sakai
Is Kita-ku walkable?
Yes. Kita-ku in Sakai has a walkability score of 85 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Kita-ku more walkable than the rest of Sakai?
Kita-ku is more walkable than Sakai as a whole: it scores 85, against 82 for the 5 km around Sakai's centre. It is the only neighbourhood ranked in Sakai on How Walkable.
How is the walkability score of Kita-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 Kita-ku it is the average of 58 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. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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