08230 ／ かすみがうらし
Ibaraki PrefectureAn eight-ken-wide inn in mid-town.
Inn in Inayoshi, Minagawaya01 ／ Hobikibune
Orimoto Ryohei, born in the former Kasumigaura Town, devised the hobikibune for whitebait fishing in 1880 (Meiji 13). The city says the lines running from the sail yard were his greatest invention and that he taught the method to many fishermen. His monument is in Ayumizaki Park.
02 ／ Farmhouse
The Shiina family residence in Kamo is a thatched, hip-roofed sugoya house with an earthen-floored area on the west and rooms on the east. Dismantling and repair in 1970-71 revealed an ink inscription reading "Empo 2". The city calls this date the oldest known for a farmhouse in eastern Japan so far.
03 ／ Burial mound
Kazegaeshi Inariyama Kofun in Shishikura was excavated in 1964. Its finds, including kabutsuchi-no-tachi and entou-tachi swords, are Important Cultural Properties (designated 2023) and are kept at the city's history museum. Four burials are thought to have taken place from the late 6th to the mid-7th century.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot April 2023)Shot 1974–78
Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））
Living here
The city has no railway station. In the city's Kasumigaura wide-area bus timetable, the bus leaving Tsuchiura Station West Exit at 8:00 reaches Kasumigaura Government Office at 8:45. There are five round trips a day, and the fastest bus from the office to Tsuchiura Station takes 48 minutes.
−4.9% since 2015
44,603 → 40,087
91.84km² of it habitable
2024
2.6 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
6.0 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow かすみがうら市公式『霞ヶ浦広域バス』（page005294・2026-04-01更新。関鉄グリーンバスの運行）の時刻表・運賃表PDF（data/doc/1720490296_doc_36_0.pdf。A3の画像1枚を目で読んだ。同じ紙面に千代田神立ラインの『令和7年7月1日改正』の表が載る）の、土浦駅→土浦協同病院→霞ヶ浦コミュニティセンター→田伏→玉造駅の下り5便 (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
16.6km
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