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title: "Kita-ku, Sakai walkability score: 85/100 · How Walkable"
description: "Kita-ku in Sakai scores 85/100 for walkability (Very Walkable). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Sakai."
url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/sakai/kita-ku
updated: 2026-10-22
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
---

1.  [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities)
2.  [Japan](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan)
3.  [Sakai](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/sakai)
4.  Kita-ku

# How walkable is Kita-ku, Sakai?

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

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.

85 out of 100: Very Walkable

Most errands can be accomplished on foot.

*   82% of its area scores 70+
*   82 Sakai overall
*   100 at the centre

[Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=34.56552&lon=135.51718&q=Kita-ku%2C%20Sakai) 

## 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

3.0 of 3 points

*   関西スーパー しんかな店, 3 min
*   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

3.0 of 3 points

*   キングパン, 1 min
*   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

2.0 of 2 points

*   ドン・キホーテ新金岡店, 1 min
*   新金岡薬局, 1 min
*   ファミリーマート, 1 min

### Coffee

2.0 of 2 points

*   Mio Tempo and Coffee, 1 min
*   カフェ ミント, 3 min
*   喫茶店 Mari&co., 3 min

### Banks

1.0 of 1 point

*   りそな銀行 新金岡支店, 4 min
*   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

1.0 of 1 point

*   金岡東第3(金岡東)公園, 3 min
*   新金岡町ブリック公園, 3 min
*   おさる公園, 4 min

### Schools

1.0 of 1 point

*   新金岡センター保育園, 3 min
*   わんぱく保育園, 6 min
*   大泉小学校, 10 min

### Books & libraries

1.0 of 1 point

*   堺市立北図書館, 1 min
*   WAY書店, 3 min
*   Book Off, 6 min

### Culture & entertainment

1.0 of 1 point

*   ジャンボカラオケ広場, 2 min
*   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

![Walkability scores across the 2 km around the centre of Kita-ku. 82% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 58, is 2 km to the east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/japan/sakai/kita-ku.svg?v=5a23148b87fa)

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](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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