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City (Special Ward) Japanese Prefecture Population Area (km 2) Density (per km 2) Founded Website Nagoya: 名古屋市 Aichi 2,327,557: 326.45: 6,860: 1889-10-01: Toyohashi
In Japan, a prefectural capital is officially called todōfukenchō shozaichi (都道府県庁所在地, "seat of a prefectural government", singular: 都庁所在地,tochō shozaichi in the [Tōkyō]-to, 道庁所在地, dōchō shozaichi in the [Hokkai]-dō, 府庁所在地, fuchō shozaichi in -fu, 県庁所在地, kenchō shozaichi in -ken), but the term kento (県都, "prefectural capital ...
Kakuro or Kakkuro or Kakoro (Japanese: カックロ) is a kind of logic puzzle that is often referred to as a mathematical transliteration of the crossword. Kakuro puzzles are regular features in many math-and-logic puzzle publications across the world.
Osaka merged with more surrounding municipalities in 1925, bringing the city to roughly its current size. The second Japanese city to pass 2 million people, and the new most populous city in Japan. 2: 1: Tokyo: Tokyo: 2,070,913 - 4.71%: Population briefly dipped below 2 million in the mid-1920s.
It is a local public body along with prefecture (ken or other equivalents), city , and village . Geographically, a town is contained within a district. The same word (町; machi or chō) is also used in names of smaller regions, usually a part of a ward in a city. This is a legacy of when smaller towns were formed on the outskirts of a city ...
List of city nicknames in Japan; P. List of Japanese cities by population (1889) T. List of cities in Tokyo Metropolis by population
In Japanese, Kyoto was previously called Kyō (京), Miyako (都), Kyō no Miyako (京の都), and Keishi ().After becoming the capital of Japan at the start of the Heian period (794–1185), the city was often referred to as Heian-kyō (平安京, "Heian capital"), and late in the Heian period the city came to be widely referred to simply as "Kyōto" (京都, "capital city").
Categories by city in Japan (17 C) Planned communities in Japan (13 C, 9 P) Former capitals of Japan (19 P) Metropolitan areas of Japan (4 C, 24 P)