Trains to Otaru

22 origins, priced from the same engine that serves the search page.

22 places connect to Otaru by Trains, across 1 country, run by 1 operator. The cheapest arrival costs €11.88. Origins run from 45 km away to 159 km, with a median of 79 km.

Checked 30 September 2026Priced for 30 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

Fares

Arriving in Otaru

Priced from the same engine that answers the search box, on the next three weeks of departures.

Cheapest fare and fastest journey into Otaru, over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Ebetsu to Otaru train€11.881h 13m45 km
Kitahiroshima to Otaru train€11.881h 15m52 km
Eniwa to Otaru train€11.891h 19m57 km
Iwamizawa to Otaru train€12.441h 22m61 km
Chitose to Otaru train€13.541h 23m67 km
Tomakomai to Otaru train€15.191h 26m79 km
Noboribetsu to Otaru train€16.291h 32m83 km
Takikawa to Otaru train€16.291h 34m84 km
Muroran to Otaru train€18.491h 41m97 km
Asahikawa to Otaru train€23.991h 54m128 km
Hakodate to Otaru train€27.842h 4m159 km
  • 22Places you can arrive from
  • 22Places you can leave for
  • 1Countries
  • 1Operators

Otaru sits on the water, which usually settles which side of town you want to wake up on. Rooms are not ours to sell.

A hotel room

Where to sleep in Otaru

Sort by distance from Otaru Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Every origin we sell by Trains, grouped by how far it is in a straight line.

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km22100%Ebetsu, 45 km
Origins

Which countries you can arrive from

Countries with at least one route into Otaru that we sell.

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
Japan22100%
Carriers

Train operators

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Hokkaido Railway CompanyNoneNone140 km/hRefundablePower sockets, Wi-Fi
  • Hokkaido Railway Company
Terminals

Stations, airports and ports in Otaru

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Otaru

Rail
  • Otaru Station
  • Hama-Otaru Station
  • Shin-Otaru Station
Leaving

Leaving Otaru

Common questions about Trains to Otaru

Where can I travel to Otaru by Trains from?

22 places connect to Otaru by Trains on our network, across 1 countries. The nearest is 45 km away in a straight line and the furthest 159 km. Every one of them is a route we actually sell rather than a connection somebody could construct.

How much does the Trains to Otaru cost?

The cheapest Trains fare into Otaru is €11.88 for one passenger, across 22 origins over the next three weeks. The median origin is 79 km away in a straight line, which is the distance that fare should be read against.

How long does the Trains to Otaru take?

The fastest Trains journey into Otaru is 1h 13m door to door. The median origin sits 79 km away in a straight line, so most journeys on this list take considerably longer than the fastest one quoted here.

Which operators run the Trains to Otaru?

1 operators run Trains services into Otaru on our network: Hokkaido Railway Company. Each has its own fares and its own conditions, and every one of them is a real carrier from the published operator catalogue rather than a name we generated.

Which terminal does the Trains to Otaru use?

Trains services into Otaru use 3 named terminals, among them Otaru Station, Hama-Otaru Station, Shin-Otaru Station. The terminal a given service uses is shown on the route page for that journey and again on the ticket, because a city with several is a city where the wrong one costs an hour.

Where these numbers come from

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.

Defined in full at Catchment, Fares, Door to door

Other ways to reach Otaru

We cannot promise Otaru Station still has a left luggage office, because plenty of stations closed theirs.

Left luggage lockers

Somewhere to leave the bags in Otaru?

Most of the points near Otaru Station open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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