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Kuji, Kawasaki — Area Guide & Where to Stay
A district of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture, Kuji appears in the register without a landmark of its own.
About Kuji
Where to stay in Kuji
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Kuji gives no landmark to build a stay around, so the reference points are the Yumemigasaki Zoological Park and the other Kawasaki entries that lie outside it. The compensation is reach. Kanagawa Prefecture puts Tokyo and Yokohama within ordinary travelling distance of any Kawasaki address, and a district with nothing on its own register still has that going for it.
If you are here for work in the Keihin Industrial Area rather than for sightseeing, Kuji fits.
About Kuji
What are the main landmarks in Kuji?
No landmark carries this name. Kuji's entry stands empty on that count, and everything a visitor would cross the city for is filed under Kawasaki instead, from the Yumemigasaki Zoological Park to 諏訪坂古墳. The city's list runs on through 上台遺跡, 上台北遺跡 and 鶴見神社境内貝塚.
None of it falls inside Kuji, which is worth knowing before a stay is planned around walking to things.
What is the history of Kuji?
The founding date belongs to the city. Kawasaki was founded in 1924, and Kuji's own entry adds nothing to that: it names no charter year and records no settlement event tied to the district. Ground elsewhere in Kawasaki is registered under 鶴見神社境内貝塚 and 上台遺跡.
Kuji itself stays undocumented. The district therefore exists administratively within Kanagawa Prefecture while its story is told at the level of Kawasaki.
Where is Kuji?
Kuji belongs to Kawasaki, the Kanagawa Prefecture city that fills the ground between Tokyo and Yokohama.
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Updated August 2026