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title: "Sakae-ku, Yokohama walkability score: 77/100 · How Walkable"
description: "Sakae-ku in Yokohama scores 77/100 for walkability (Very Walkable). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Yokohama."
url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/yokohama/sakae-ku
updated: 2026-10-22
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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4.  Sakae-ku

# How walkable is Sakae-ku, Yokohama?

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

Sakae-ku has a walkability score of 77 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 joint 7th most walkable of the 8 neighbourhoods ranked in Yokohama, with 1 other, which scores 86 as a whole.

77 out of 100: Very Walkable

Most errands can be accomplished on foot.

*   #7 of 8 tied, in Yokohama
*   86 Yokohama overall
*   99 at the centre

[Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=35.36434&lon=139.55403&q=Sakae-ku%2C%20Yokohama) 

## What's within walking distance

528 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Sakae-ku. The nearest grocery is about 5 minutes away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.

### Groceries

3.0 of 3 points

*   FUJI, 5 min
*   FUJIスーパー 小菅ケ谷店, 17 min
*   業務スーパー笠間店, 17 min

### Restaurants & bars

3.0 of 3 points

*   焼き肉おくう, 1 min
*   専科 横浜本店, 4 min
*   モスバーガー, 4 min

### Shopping

2.0 of 2 points

*   天神薬局, 2 min
*   ローソン, 3 min
*   ファミリーマート, 3 min

### Coffee

1.9 of 2 points

*   さんぽみち～アート de スマイル, 2 min
*   ドトールコーヒーショップ 本郷台店, 6 min
*   Cafe&Bar T'amo, 6 min

### Banks

1.0 of 1 point

*   横浜農業協同組合（ＪＡ横浜） 本郷支店, 4 min
*   横浜銀行本郷台支店, 6 min
*   横浜農業協同組合（ＪＡ横浜） 本郷東支店, 18 min

### Parks

1.0 of 1 point

*   本郷公園, 1 min
*   本郷台公園, 4 min
*   鍛冶ヶ谷中居公園, 6 min

### Schools

1.0 of 1 point

*   神奈川県立柏陽高等学校, 3 min
*   横浜市立本郷中学校, 5 min
*   かつら愛児園, 5 min

### Books & libraries

1.0 of 1 point

*   栄図書館, 5 min
*   BOOKOFF 横浜本郷台店, 27 min
*   ブックオフ鎌倉大船店, 30 min

### Culture & entertainment

0.9 of 1 point

*   横浜市栄区民文化センターリリス, 6 min
*   本郷台囲碁クラブ, 9 min
*   笠間ゆうわ館, 28 min

Measured from the mapped centre of Sakae-ku, Yokohama at 35.3643, 139.5540. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.

## Street layout

Within 800 m of the centre there are about 211 street intersections per km², and blocks average 64 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.

## Walkability across Sakae-ku, Yokohama

![Walkability scores across the 2 km around the centre of Sakae-ku. 80% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 43, is 2 km to the south.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/japan/yokohama/sakae-ku.svg?v=0eb29605cb16)

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

## Nearby neighbourhoods in Yokohama

| Neighbourhood                                            | Distance | Score |
| -------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ----- |
| [Kōnan-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/yokohama/konan-ku)              | 5.4 km   | 83    |
| [Gumyōji](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/yokohama/neighbourhoods#gumyoji) | 7.8 km   | 97    |
| [Minami-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/yokohama/minami-ku)            | 10.2 km  | 91    |
| [Nishi-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/yokohama/nishi-ku)              | 11.5 km  | 96    |
| [Seya-ku](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/yokohama/seya-ku)                | 12.4 km  | 77    |
| [Hiyoshi](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/yokohama/neighbourhoods#hiyoshi) | 22.5 km  | 92    |
| [Azamino](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/yokohama/neighbourhoods#azamino) | 22.8 km  | 89    |

See [all 8 neighbourhoods of Yokohama ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/japan/yokohama/neighbourhoods).

## Questions about walking in Sakae-ku, Yokohama

### Is Sakae-ku walkable?

Yes. Sakae-ku in Yokohama has a walkability score of 77 out of 100 across the 2 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.

### Is Sakae-ku more walkable than the rest of Yokohama?

Sakae-ku is less walkable than Yokohama as a whole: it scores 77, against 86 for the 5 km around Yokohama's centre. It is the joint 7th most walkable of the 8 neighbourhoods ranked in Yokohama, with 1 other on How Walkable.

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

Of the 8 Yokohama neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Gumyōji (97), Nishi-ku (96) and Hiyoshi (92).

### How is the walkability score of Sakae-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 Sakae-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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