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This is a list of cities in Japan sorted by prefecture and within prefecture by founding date. The list is also sortable by population, area, density and foundation date. Most large cities in Japan are cities designated by government ordinance. Some regionally important cities are designated as core cities.
These cities are already well within their MMAs and should not greatly alter their formation. Niigata and Okayama major metropolitan areas Niigata became a designated city in 2007 and Okayama became a designated city in 2009. These cities therefore formed major metropolitan areas in the 2010 census. Shizuoka, Hamamatsu major metropolitan area
Rank Name Prefecture Pop. Rank Name Prefecture Pop. 1: Tokyo: Tokyo: 9,272,740: 11: Hiroshima: Hiroshima: 1,194,034 2: Yokohama: Kanagawa: 3,724,844: 12: Sendai ...
A map of Japan's major cities, main towns and selected smaller centers. Japan has a population of 126.3 million in 2019. [20] It is the eleventh-most populous country and the second-most populous island country in the world. [12] The population is clustered in urban areas along the coast, plains, and valleys. [15]
See List of cities in Japan for a complete list of cities. See also: Core cities of Japan. The following are examples of the 20 designated cities: Fukuoka, the most populous city in the Kyūshū region; Hiroshima, the busy manufacturing city in the Chūgoku region of Honshū; Kobe, a major port on the Inland Sea, located in the center of ...
A city (市, shi) is a local administrative unit in Japan. Cities are ranked on the same level as towns (町, machi) and villages (村, mura), with the difference that they are not a component of districts (郡, gun). Like other contemporary administrative units, they are defined by the Local Autonomy Law of 1947. [1] [2]
As Tokyo city's suburbs grew rapidly in the early 20th century, many towns and villages in Tokyo were merged or promoted over the years. In 1932, five complete districts with their 82 towns and villages were merged into Tokyo City and organised in 20 new wards. Also, by 1940, there were two more cities in Tokyo: Hachiōji City and Tachikawa City.
Before Saitama became a designated city in 2001, the area was called Keihin'yō Major Metropolitan Area (京浜葉大都市圏, Keihin'yō Dai-toshi-ken). Excludes adjacent metropolitan areas of Gunma, Ibaraki, and Utsunomiya which are urbanized but have some small towns in between them and Tokyo. Most locally detailed definition, but hard to ...