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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:

• Fukuoka
• Hiroshima
• Kobe
• Kyoto
• Nagasaki
• Nagoya
• Osaka
• Sapporo
• Sendai
• Yokohama

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.

See also: Core city, Municipality of Japan

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

See also

• List of cities by country
• List of city listings by country
• List of metropolitan areas by population

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