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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.
Osaka Keihanshin MMA as of 2015 with core cities in dark blue: Osaka, Sakai, Kyoto, Kobe. The Japan Statistics Bureau defines a Major Metropolitan Area or MMA (大都市圏) as a set of municipalities where at least 1.5% of the resident population aged 15 and above commute to school or work in a designated city (defined as the core area). [7]
Map of Japanese pitch accents. The Kyoto-Osaka type accent is used in the orange area while the Tokyo type accent is used in the blue area. The pitch accent in Kansai dialect is very different from the standard Tokyo accent, so non-Kansai Japanese can recognize Kansai people easily from that alone.
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.
Osaka contains numerous urban canals and bridges, many of which serve as the namesake for their surrounding neighborhoods. [54] The phrase "808 bridges of Naniwa" was an expression in old Japan used to indicate impressiveness and the "uncountable". Osaka numbered roughly 200 bridges by the Edo period [55] and 1,629 bridges by 1925. As many of ...
Greater Kyoto is a metropolitan area in Japan encompassing Kyoto City, the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as its surrounding areas including Ōtsu, the capital of Shiga Prefecture. [ 3 ] The metropolitan area is also referred to as Keiji (京滋) or Keishin (京津).
The top tier of administrative divisions are the 47 prefectural entities: 43 prefectures (県, ken) proper, two urban prefectures (府, fu, Osaka and Kyōto), one "circuit" (道, dō, Hokkaidō), and one "metropolis" (都, to, Tokyo Metropolis). Although different in name, they are functionally the same.