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The population peaked at 46,000 in 1948, and has been decreasing every year since. Efforts to transform Utashinai from a gritty coal mining town to an alpine tourist destination have met with mixed success. The town has adopted a Swiss theme as part of its tourist-oriented strategy and many new buildings are built in the Swiss chalet style.
The least-populated city, Utashinai, Hokkaidō, has a population of merely four thousand, while a town in the same prefecture, Otofuke, Hokkaidō, has nearly forty thousand residents, and the country's largest village Yomitan, Okinawa has a population of 40,517. The capital city, Tokyo, no longer has city status.
Buildings of the Japanese government (1 C) C. City and town halls in Japan (4 P) N. National Diet (5 C, 5 P, 1 F) O. Official residences in Japan (1 C, 1 P) P.
The tallest building: Azabudai Hills, Minato, Tokyo, 325 m. The largest wooden building: Ōdate Jukai Dome , Ōdate , Akita , 178×157×52 m, 24,672 m³. The oldest wooden building in the world: The five-story pagoda and kon-dō of Hōryū-ji temple, Ikaruga , Nara .
A city designated by government ordinance (政令指定都市, seirei shitei toshi), also known as a designated city (指定都市, shitei toshi) or government ordinance city (政令市, seirei shi), is a Japanese city that has a population greater than 500,000 and has been designated as such by an order of the cabinet of Japan under Article ...
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
Category: City and town halls in Japan. ... Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building This page was last edited on 5 February 2019, at 04:33 (UTC). ...
Hokkaidō has the third-largest population of Japan's five main islands, with 5,111,691 people as of 2023. [3] [53] It has the lowest population density in Japan, with just 61 inhabitants per square kilometre (160/sq mi).