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Tokyo: Nishio Toshizō (concurrent governor of Tokyo) Tōbu (Eastern) Tōkai-Hokuriku: Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie, Toyama, Ishikawa: Nagoya City: Obata Tadayoshi (previous governor of Aichi) Tōkai Kinki: Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo, Nara, Wakayama, Fukui: Osaka City: Yasui Eiji (previous governor of Osaka) Chūbu (Central) Chūgoku
Later, in 1871, the government designated Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto as fu, and relegated the other fu to the status of ken. During World War II, in 1943, Tokyo became a to, a new type of pseudo-prefecture. Despite the differences in terminology, there is little functional difference between the four types of local governments.
The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropolitan region of Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto (Keihanshin region) is the second-most populated in Japan after the Greater Tokyo Area.
Keihanshin map with Osaka, Kobe, and Kyoto Urban Employment Areas as of 2015. The Urban Employment Area is a metropolitan area definition developed at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Tokyo . [ 9 ]
Map of Japan. This is a list of municipalities in Japan which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Today, the Tōkaidō corridor is the most heavily travelled transportation corridor in Japan, connecting Greater Tokyo (including the capital Tokyo as well as Japan's second largest city Yokohama) to Nagoya (fourth largest), and then to Osaka (third largest) via Kyoto. The Tokyo-Nagoya-Kyoto-Osaka route is followed by the JR Tōkaidō Main Line ...
Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nara Prefecture to the southeast, and Wakayama Prefecture to the south. Osaka is the capital and largest city of Osaka Prefecture, and the third-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Sakai, Higashiōsaka, and Hirakata. [3]
This area consists of 13 cities and towns of Shiga Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, and Osaka Prefecture, in addition to Kyoto MEA. The total population as of 2020 for the region was estimated at 3,785,351. The following areas, along with the above Kyoto MEA, are included in the Kyoto metropolitan area, with their 2020 populations: [1] [2]