Cities of Japan

Cities of Japan

A city (市 shi) is a local public body in Japan, along with prefecture (ken or other equivalents), town (cho) and village (mura). A city's extent is contained within a prefecture.

The following are major cities:

See List of cities in Japan for more complete list.

Each of 23 Special Wards of Tokyo is legally equivalent to a city. Except Tokyo, all large cities are of cities designated by government ordinance.

Table of contents

1 Metropolitan areas
2 See also
3 External link

Metropolitan areas

Area name	Population
Tokyo	34,900,000 incl. Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba prefectures
Osaka	18,000,000 incl. Kobe, Kyoto