Tokyo15%
Yokohama5.7%
Osaka4.1%
Nagoya3.5%
Sapporo3%
Fukuoka
Kawasaki2.3%
Kobe2.3%
Kyoto2.2%
Saitama
Hiroshima
Sendai1.7%
Chiba
Kitakyushu
Sakai
Niigata
Hamamatsu
Kumamoto
Sagamihara
Okayama
Shizuoka
Kagoshima
Funabashi
Hachiōji
Kawaguchi
Himeji
Matsuyama
Higashiōsaka
Utsunomiya
Matsudo
Nishinomiya
Kurashiki
Ichikawa
Ōita
Fukuyama
Amagasaki
Kanazawa
Nagasaki
60 others29%
1
TokyoTokyo
9,878,284
2
YokohamaKanagawa
3,732,616
3
OsakaOsaka
2,691,185
4
NagoyaAichi
2,327,557
5
SapporoHokkaido
1,976,257
6
FukuokaFukuoka
1,588,924
7
KawasakiKanagawa
1,531,646
8
KobeHyōgo
1,524,601
9
KyotoKyoto
1,464,890
10
SaitamaSaitama
1,324,854
11
HiroshimaHiroshima
1,199,391
12
SendaiMiyagi
1,091,407
13
ChibaChiba
1,001,230
14
KitakyushuFukuoka
940,978
15
SakaiOsaka
828,741
16
NiigataNiigata
797,591
17
HamamatsuShizuoka
780,128
18
KumamotoKumamoto
738,907
19
SagamiharaKanagawa
723,470
20
OkayamaOkayama
720,841
21
ShizuokaShizuoka
710,944
22
KagoshimaKagoshima
605,196
23
FunabashiChiba
586,762
24
HachiōjiTokyo
567,367
25
KawaguchiSaitama
552,883
26
HimejiHyōgo
536,170
27
MatsuyamaEhime
515,068
28
HigashiōsakaOsaka
509,157
29
UtsunomiyaTochigi
507,833
30
MatsudoChiba
477,603
31
NishinomiyaHyōgo
477,056
32
KurashikiOkayama
472,452
33
IchikawaChiba
470,149
34
ŌitaOita Ōita
467,267
35
FukuyamaHiroshima
461,368
36
AmagasakiHyōgo
461,202
37
KanazawaIshikawa
455,595
38
NagasakiNagasaki
448,792
39
YokosukaKanagawa
421,397
40
ToyamaToyama
421,116
41
ToyotaAichi
420,286
42
TakamatsuKagawa
418,557
43
MachidaTokyo
413,786
44
GifuGifu
412,779
45
HirakataOsaka
406,201
46
FujisawaKanagawa
402,628
47
KashiwaChiba
389,036
48
ToyonakaOsaka
387,269
49
ToyohashiAichi
377,045
50
IchinomiyaAichi
375,939
51
WakayamaWakayama
372,175
52
OkazakiAichi
371,380
53
MiyazakiMiyazaki
369,473
54
NaraNara
367,393
55
NaganoNagano
365,950
56
SuitaOsaka
354,600
57
TakatsukiOsaka
354,228
58
AsahikawaHokkaido
350,511
59
IwakiFukushima
349,947
60
KōchiKōchi
342,944
61
TakasakiGunma
341,838
62
KōriyamaFukushima
339,395
63
TokorozawaSaitama
338,560
64
KawagoeSaitama
335,693
65
AkitaAkita
329,287
66
ŌtsuShiga
329,024
67
KoshigayaSaitama
318,592
68
MaebashiGunma
318,058
69
NahaOkinawa
314,162
70
YokkaichiMie
306,584
71
KurumeFukuoka
305,147
72
KasugaiAichi
300,713
73
MoriokaIwate
299,746
74
AkashiHyōgo
292,162
75
AomoriAomori
290,000
76
FukushimaFukushima
289,355
77
TsuMie
289,215
78
ShimonosekiYamaguchi
286,073
79
NagaokaNiigata
281,222
80
IchiharaChiba
279,591
81
YaoOsaka
273,244
82
IbarakiOsaka
272,240
83
FukuiFukui
268,574
84
KakogawaHyōgo
267,631
85
TokushimaTokushima
266,370
86
MitoIbaraki
264,062
87
HiratsukaKanagawa
260,419
88
YamagataYamagata
255,370
89
SaseboNagasaki
254,650
90
FuchūTokyo
248,445
91
KureHiroshima
246,118
92
HakodateHokkaido
243,942
93
HachinoheAomori
241,613
94
SagaSaga
239,932
95
NeyagawaOsaka
239,029
96
MatsumotoNagano
238,776
97
SōkaSaitama
237,964
98
FujiShizuoka
237,279
99
KasukabeSaitama
236,854
100
ChigasakiKanagawa
231,005
Highlights
Within Japan, Tokyo ranks first in 2020 with 9,878,284, followed by Yokohama (3,732,616) and Osaka (2,691,185).
Tokyo is 2.6 times higher than Yokohama, the runner-up.
Across 100 entries, values run from 9,878,284 (Tokyo) to 231,005 (Chigasaki), with a median of 374,057.
Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan (via Wikipedia), 2020. Unit: people.
Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan (via Wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia); underlying data © the cited publisher · fetched Oct 13, 2026