List of Japanese cities by population

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Japan has many major cities. Many of these cities are crowded into a relatively small area of land along the Pacific coast of Honshū, between Tōkyō and Kōbe. This heavily urbanized strip is known as the Tōkaidō Megalopolis. It is named for the historic highway that connected the cities of Tōkyō and Kyōto, which has now been replaced by expressways and the high-speed Shinkansen railway.

Methods

In Japan, there are two common methods to count population. One is the and another is the .

The Estimated Population is based on the , which itself is based on the national census. The Estimated Population counts births, deaths, and changes of residences each month from the Legal Population. Since the census information is collected from the actual residents, the Legal Population and the Estimated Population are relatively reliable figures.

The Registered Population is population registered on a jūminhyō (residential registration card) or an alien registration. As registered person may or may not reside the place, the figure does not show the real population. However, since municipal governments tax registered residents rather than actual residents, the figure is useful for such purposes.

List

Because of the reasons above, this list uses the Estimated Population rather than the Registered Population. Each figure is from the corresponding municipal official websites. When a municipal website does not show the Estimated Population, the figure from the corresponding prefectural official website is used instead. If neither shows the Estimated Population (which is the case of the three cities of Hokkaidō), the Registered Population without foreigners is written in blankets. For a comparison, the Registered Population of the last day of September, 2005, is written under the Legal Population.

The Estimated Population is written in red if it is smaller than the Legal Population.

The list includes the 23 special wards of Tokyo as single city. It also includes each special ward in italics.

Abbreviations:

Est. Pop.: Estimated Population, as of January 1, 2008.

Legal Pop.: Legal Population, as of October 1, 2005.

Pref. capital: Prefectural capital

Source	Prefecture	City	Est. Pop.	Legal Pop.	Status	Pref. capital
	TokyoTōkyō	23 special wards	8,663,751	8,483,050	Group of special wards
	Kanagawa	Yokohama	3,631,236	3,579,133	Government ordinance city
	OsakaŌsaka	OsakaŌsaka	2,645,305	2,628,776	Government ordinance city
	Aichi	Nagoya	2,239,464	2,215,031	Government ordinance city
	Hokkaidō	Sapporo	1,895,882	1,880,875	Government ordinance city
	Hyōgo	KobeKōbe	1,530,847	1,525,389	Government ordinance city
	Kyōto	Kyōto	1,468,906	1,474,764	Government ordinance city
	Fukuoka	Fukuoka	1,430,371	1,400,621	Government ordinance city
	Kanagawa	Kawasaki	1,373,630	1,327,009	Government ordinance city
	Saitama	Saitama	1,192,418	1,176,269	Government ordinance city
	Hiroshima	Hiroshima	1,163,806	1,154,595	Government ordinance city
	Miyagi	Sendai	1,029,552	1,024,947	Government ordinance city
	Fukuoka	Kitakyūshū	986,998	993,483	Government ordinance city
	Chiba	Chiba	938,695	924,353	Government ordinance city
1	TokyoTōkyō	Setagaya	857,046	841,399	Special ward	N/A
	OsakaŌsaka	Sakai	835,333	831,111	Government ordinance city
	Nigata	Niigata	813,053	813,847	Government ordinance city
	Shizuoka	Hamamatsu	811,431	804,067	Government ordinance city
	Shizuoka	Shizuoka	710,944	713,716	Government ordinance city
	Kanagawa	Sagamihara	706,342	701,568	Core city
2	TokyoTōkyō	Nerima	703,850	692,225	Special ward	N/A
	Okayama	Okayama	701,293	696,172	Core city
3	TokyoTōkyō	OtaŌta	675,914	665,370	Special ward	N/A
	Kumamoto	Kumamoto	670,348	669,541	Core city
4	TokyoTōkyō	Edogawa	663,733	653,882	Special ward	N/A
5	TokyoTōkyō	Adachi	632,140	624,548	Special ward	N/A
	Kagoshima	Kagoshima	605,196	604,387	Core city
	Chiba	Funabashi	586,762	569,829	Core city
	TokyoTōkyō	Hachiōji	567,367	560,048
6	TokyoTōkyō	Suginami	536,191	528,180	Special ward	N/A
	Hyōgo	Himeji	536,170	536,234	Core city
7	TokyoTōkyō	Itabashi	529,477	522,710	Special ward	N/A
	Ehime	Matsuyama	515,068	514,944	Core city
	OsakaŌsaka	Higashiōsaka	509,157	513,744	Core city
	Tochigi	Utsunomiya	507,833	502,279	Core city
	Saitama	Kawaguchi	492,675	479,986	Special city
	Chiba	Matsudo	477,603	472,504
	Hyōgo	Nishinomiya	477,056	465,338
	Okayama	Kurashiki	472,452	469,372	Core city
	Chiba	Ichikawa	470,149	466,408
	OitaŌita	OitaŌita	467,267	462,322	Core city
	Hiroshima	Fukuyama	461,368	459,015	Core city
	Hyōgo	Amagasaki	461,202	462,484	Special city
	Ishikawa	Kanazawa	455,765	454,607	Core city
	Nagasaki	Nagasaki	448,792	455,131	Core city
8	TokyoTōkyō	KotoKōtō	438,200	420,831	Special ward	N/A
9	TokyoTōkyō	Katsushika	428,606	424,801	Special ward	N/A
	Kanagawa	Yokosuka	421,397	426,162	Core city
	Toyama	Toyama	421,116	421,156	Core city
	Aichi	Toyota	420,286	412,131	Core city
	Kagawa	Takamatsu	418,557	417,986	Core city
	TokyoTōkyō	Machida	413,786	404,798
	Gifu	Gifu	412,779	413,356	Core city
	OsakaŌsaka	Hirakata	406,201	404,004	Special city
	Kanagawa	Fujisawa	402,628	395,997
	Chiba	Kashiwa	389,036	381,016
	OsakaŌsaka	Toyonaka	387,269	386,633	Special city
	Nagano	Nagano	378,204	378,495	Core city
	Aichi	Toyohashi	377,045	372,471	Core city
	Aichi	Ichinomiya	375,939	371,446	Special city
	Wakayama	Wakayama	372,275	375,718	Core city
	Aichi	Okazaki	371,380	363,811	Core city
	Miyazaki	Miyazaki	369,473	366,867	Core city
	Nara	Nara	367,393	370,106	Core city
	Hokkaidō	Asahikawa	357,180- （357,180）	354,988 （360,118）	Core city
10	TokyoTōkyō	Shinagawa	356,046	346,361	Special ward	N/A
	OsakaŌsaka	Suita	354,600	353,853	Special city
	OsakaŌsaka	Takatsuki	354,228	351,803	Core city
	Fukushima	Iwaki	349,796	354,403	Core city
	KochiKōchi	KochiKōchi	346,858	348,909	Core city
	Gunma	Takasaki	341,838	339,860	Special city
	Fukushima	KoriyamaKōriyama	339,360	338,830	Core city
	Saitama	Tokorozawa	338,560	336,081	Special city
	Saitama	Kawagoe	335,693	333,765	Core city
11	TokyoTōkyō	Kita	331,469	330,378	Special ward	N/A
	Akita	Akita	329,287	333,047	Core city
	Shiga	OtsuŌtsu	329,024	323,713	Special city
	Saitama	Koshigaya	318,592	315,782	Special city
	Gunma	Maebashi	318,058	318,653	Special city
	Okinawa	Naha	314,162	312,308
12	TokyoTōkyō	Nakano	312,477	310,210	Special ward	N/A
13	TokyoTōkyō	Shinjuku	310,570	302,287	Special ward	N/A
	Mie	Yokkaichi	306,584	303,851	Special city
	Aomori	Aomori	305,884	311,307	Core city
	Fukuoka	Kurume	305,147	306,439	Special city
	Aichi	Kasugai	300,713	295,795	Special city
	Iwate	Morioka	299,746	300,740	Special city
	Hyōgo	Akashi	292,162	291,033	Special city
	Hokkaidō	Hakodate	290,140- （290,140）	294,212 （297,280）	Core city
	Fukushima	Fukushima	289,422	290,867
	Mie	Tsu	289,215	288,876
	Yamaguchi	Shimonoseki	286,073	290,693	Core city
	Niigata	Nagaoka	281,222	283,234	Special city
	Chiba	Ichihara	279,591	280,241
	OsakaŌsaka	Yao	273,244	273,474	Special city
	OsakaŌsaka	Ibaraki	272,240	267,976	Special city
	Fukui	Fukui	268,574	269,147	Special city
14	TokyoTōkyō	Meguro	267,894	264,158	Special ward	N/A
	Hyōgo	Kakogawa	267,631	267,103	Special city
	Tokushima	Tokushima	266,370	267,845
	Ibaraki	Mito	264,062	262,532	Special city
	Kanagawa	Hiratsuka	260,419	259,017	Special city
15	TokyoTōkyō	Toshima	257,165	250,153	Special ward	N/A
	Yamagata	Yamagata	255,370	255,959	Special city
	Nagasaki	Sasebo	254,650	258,324	Special city
	TokyoTōkyō	Fuchū	248,445	245,626
	Hiroshima	Kure	246,118	251,009	Special city
	Aomori	Hachinohe	241,613	244,678	Special city
	Saga	Saga	239,932	241,370
16	TokyoTōkyō	Sumida	239,188	230,996	Special ward	N/A
	OsakaŌsaka	Neyagawa	239,029	241,825	Special city
	Saitama	SokaSōka	237,964	236,268	Special city
	Shizuoka	Fuji	237,279	236,493	Special city
	Saitama	Kasukabe	236,854	238,499
	Kanagawa	Chigasaki	231,005	228,430	Special city
	Nagano	Matsumoto	227,392	227,579	Special city
	Kanagawa	Atsugi	225,163	222,349	Special city
	Kanagawa	Yamato	223,127	221,218	Special city
	Saitama	Ageo	222,479	220,223
	Hyōgo	Takarazuka	222,071	219,853	Special city
	TokyoTōkyō	Chōfu	219,053	216,146
	Gunma	OtaŌta	214,049	213,300	Special city
17	TokyoTōkyō	Minato	208,326	185,649	Special ward	N/A
	Ibaraki	Tsukuba	207,314	200,546	Special city
	Shizuoka	Numazu	206,818	208,001	Special city
	Niigata	Jōetsu	206,175	208,083	Special city
	Saitama	Kumagaya	204,853	204,676
18	TokyoTōkyō	Shibuya	204,445	203,129	Special ward	N/A
	Gunma	Isesaki	204,240	202,442	Special city
	OsakaŌsaka	Kishiwada	200,538	200,984	Special city
	Tottori	Tottori	200,315	201,727	Special city
	Yamanashi	KofuKōfu	199,374	200,097	Special city
	Kanagawa	Odawara	198,841	198,722	Special city
	Mie	Suzuka	197,437	193,112
	Shimane	Matsue	195,875	196,603
19	TokyoTōkyō	Bunkyō	195,871	189,589	Special ward	N/A
	Ibaraki	Hitachi	195,844	199,203
20	TokyoTōkyō	Arakawa	195,656	191,145	Special ward	N/A
	Hyōgo	Itami	194,488	192,248
	TokyoTōkyō	Nishitōkyō	193,350	189,749
	Yamaguchi	Yamaguchi	192,008	191,682
	Kyoto	Uji	191,297	189,589
	Hokkaidō	Kushiro	190,886- （190,886）	198,243 （195,039）
	Hiroshima	Higashihiroshima	187,711	184,423
	Aomori	Hirosaki	185,865	189,050
21	TokyoTōkyō	Taitō	168,673	165,193	Special ward	N/A
22	TokyoTōkyō	Chūō	106,868	98,135	Special ward	N/A
23	TokyoTōkyō	Chiyoda	43,946	41,721	Special ward	N/A

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See also

• List of metropolitan areas in Japan by population
• Urban Employment Area
• List of cities by population
• List of metropolitan areas by population
• List of cities in Australia by population
• List of cities in the People's Republic of China by population
• List of urban areas in Malaysia by population
• List of cities and towns in Russia by population
• List of cities in South Korea by population
• List of Taiwanese counties and cities by population
• List of largest United Kingdom settlements by population
• List of conurbations in the United Kingdom
• List of United States cities by population
• Table of United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas

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