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  2. List of cities in Japan - Wikipedia

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    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. Tokyo is not included on this list, as the City of Tokyo ceased to exist on July 1, 1943.

  3. Cities of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Tokyo, Japan's capital, existed as a city until 1943, but is now legally classified as a special type of prefecture called a metropolis (都, to). [3] The 23 special wards of Tokyo, which constitute the core of the Tokyo metropolitan area, each have an administrative status analogous to that of cities. Tokyo also has several other incorporated ...

  4. List of towns in Japan - Wikipedia

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    A town (町; chō or machi) is a local administrative unit in Japan. It is a local public body along with prefecture (ken or other equivalents), city , and village . Geographically, a town is contained within a district. The same word (町; machi or chō) is also used in names of smaller regions, usually a part of a ward in a city. This is a ...

  5. List of metropolitan areas in Japan - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of metropolitan areas (都市圏, toshiken) in Japan by population as defined by the Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) and the Center for Spatial Information Service of the University of Tokyo. The region containing most of the people in Japan between Tokyo and Fukuoka is often called the Taiheiyō Belt.

  6. Category:Lists of cities in Japan - Wikipedia

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    List of capitals in Japan; List of cities and towns severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami; N. List of city nicknames in Japan; P.

  7. List of capitals in Japan - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, a prefectural capital is officially called todōfukenchō shozaichi (都道府県庁所在地, "seat of a prefectural government", singular: 都庁所在地,tochō shozaichi in the [Tōkyō]-to, 道庁所在地, dōchō shozaichi in the [Hokkai]-dō, 府庁所在地, fuchō shozaichi in -fu, 県庁所在地, kenchō shozaichi in -ken), but the term kento (県都, "prefectural capital ...

  8. Municipalities of Japan - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. List of cities in Japan by population - Wikipedia

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