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Despite nearly 70% of Japan being covered by forests, [22] parks in many major cities—especially Tokyo and Osaka—are smaller and scarcer than in major West European or North American cities. As of 2014, parkland per inhabitant in Tokyo is 5.78 square meters, [ 23 ] which is roughly half of the 11.5 square meters of Madrid.
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.
The "Great Heisei Mergers" nearly halved the number of municipalities in Japan, once again increasing the size of some cities significantly and creating new towns and cities. Despite a mounting population loss in rural areas and some smaller cities, Japan's major cities continue to grow. Source date is from the 2010 Census.
The Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ) defines a metropolitan area as one or more central cities and its associated outlying municipalities. To qualify as an outlying municipality, the municipality must have at least 1.5% of its resident population aged 15 and above commuting to school or work into one of the central cities.
Population in the following table is given according to the de facto population concept for enumerating the people. Source: Extraordinary Census of Japan (as of October 1, 1947), Population Census of Japan (as of April 26, 1946, November 1, 1945 and February 22, 1944), Census of Japan (as of October 1 for the years of 1940, 1935, 1930, 1925 and ...
The table also gives an overview of the evolution of the population since the 1995 census. [1] Officially, there has been no single Tokyo municipality since 1943. The listing for Tokyo in the table below is the combined population of the 26 special wards, which together form the former boundaries of Tokyo City before its merger with Tokyo ...
The capital city, Tokyo, has a population of 13.9 million (2022). [244] It is part of the Greater Tokyo Area , the biggest metropolitan area in the world with 37.4 million people (2024). [ 245 ] Japan is an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society , [ 246 ] with the Japanese people forming 97.4% of the country's population. [ 247 ]
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