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Japan: cities by population

Japan has a population of 126,529,100, with Tokyo as its capital. The 50 largest of its 1,972 recorded towns and cities, ranked.

Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are GeoNames country data. Sources & method.

#	Place	Region	Population
1	Tokyo	Tokyo	9,733,276
2	Yokohama	Kanagawa	3,777,491
3	Osaka	Osaka	2,753,862
4	Nagoya	Aichi	2,332,176
5	Sapporo	Hokkaido	1,973,832
6	Fukuoka	Fukuoka	1,612,392
7	Kawasaki	Kanagawa	1,538,262
8	Kobe	Hyōgo	1,525,152
9	Kyoto	Kyoto	1,463,723
10	Saitama	Saitama	1,324,854
11	Hiroshima	Hiroshima	1,200,754
12	Sendai	Miyagi	1,096,704
13	Chiba	Chiba	979,768
14	Kitakyushu	Fukuoka	940,978
15	Sakai	Osaka	826,161
16	Niigata	Niigata	797,591
17	Hamamatsu	Shizuoka	791,707
18	Ōta	Tokyo	748,081
19	Kumamoto	Kumamoto	738,907
20	Aihara	Kanagawa	725,493
21	Okayama	Okayama	724,691
22	Sagamihara	Kanagawa	720,780
23	Shizuoka	Shizuoka	693,389
24	Kawaguchi	Saitama	607,373
25	Kagoshima	Kagoshima	595,049
26	Hachiōji	Tokyo	579,355
27	Kotō	Kumamoto	543,730
28	Himeji	Hyōgo	530,495
29	Utsunomiya	Tochigi	518,757
30	Matsuyama	Ehime	511,192
31	Matsudo	Chiba	498,575
32	Higashiosaka	Osaka	493,940
33	Nishinomiya	Hyōgo	485,587
34	Kurashiki	Okayama	483,576
35	Ōita	Oita	477,715
36	Fukuyama	Hiroshima	468,812
37	Kanazawa	Ishikawa	466,029
38	Amagasaki	Hyōgo	459,593
39	Katsushika	Tokyo	453,093
40	Fujisawa	Kanagawa	439,728
41	Kashiwa	Chiba	433,436
42	Machida	Tokyo	431,079
43	Toyota	Aichi	426,162
44	Shinagawa	Ehime	422,488
45	Takamatsu	Kagawa	418,994
46	Toyama	Toyama	415,844
47	Yokosuka	Kanagawa	409,478
48	Nagasaki	Nagasaki	409,118
49	Hirakata	Osaka	406,331
50	Gifu	Gifu	402,557

Twenty years earlier: Japan in the 2005 World Gazetteer — population then 128,137,485.