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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 17 public transit
Best public transit in Saitama
The 10 most notable public transit in Saitama, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
スターバックス コーヒー イオンモール川口店
安行領根岸3180イオンモ-ル川口
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.616, percentile 100 of 17
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2
国際興業バス さいたま東営業所
緑区上野田629-15
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.563, percentile 93.75 of 17
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3
東川口駅南口バスターミナル
戸塚1
39 m from Higashi-Kawaguchi Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.312, percentile 87.5 of 17
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4
岩槻
岩槻区本町3
15 m from Iwatsuki Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.034, percentile 81.25 of 17
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5
蕨駅東口バス停
埼玉県蕨市塚越２丁目５−２
244 m from Warabi Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.033, percentile 75 of 17
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6
下笹目バス停
笹目5-24
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.005, percentile 68.75 of 17
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7
下大久保
桜区下大久保
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 0.980, percentile 62.5 of 17
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8
戸田公園駅西口ロータリー
埼玉県戸田市本町４丁目５−１９
5 m from Toda-Kōen Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 0.947, percentile 56.25 of 17
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9
浦和美園駅東口バスターミナル
埼玉県さいたま市緑区美園４丁目１１−８
56 m from Urawa Misono Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 0.911, percentile 50 of 17
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10
浦和駅東口バスターミナル
浦和区東仲町
651 m from Urawa Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 0.870, percentile 43.75 of 17
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).