Top 150 Most Influential Urban Areas in Japan

*List Currently Under Construction*

Regions:
Okinawa Islands - Pink
Kyushu - Dark Red
Shikoku - Red
Chugoku - Orange
Kansai - Yellowish Green
Chubu - Green
Kanto - Light Blue
Tohoku - Blue
Hokkaido - Purple


Internationally Influential
1. Tokyo
2. Osaka
3. Kyoto
4. Yokohama
5. Nagoya
6. Kobe
7. Fukuoka
8. Sapporo
9. Hiroshima
10. Sendai

11. Naha
12. Kanazawa

Nationally Influential
13. Shizuoka
14. Niigata
15. Hamamatsu
16. Chiba
17. Saitama
18. Kawasaki
19. Nagano
20. Okayama

21. Nagasaki
22. Kumamoto
23. Kagoshima
24. Takamatsu
25. Kitakyushu
26. Matsuyama
27. Takasaki
28. Miyazaki
29. Fukushima
30. Wakayama

31. Hakodate
32. Oita
33. Utsunomiya
34. Morioka
35. Toyama
36. Mito

Regionally Influential
37. Aomori
38. Akita
39. Koriyama
40. Himeji

41. Nara
42. Asahikawa
43. Kochi
44. Toyohashi
45. Fukui
46. Tsukuba
47. Kofu
48. Yamagata
49. Hachinohe
50. Tokushima

51. Matsumoto
52. Kushiro
53. Aizuwakamatsu
54. Miyakonojo
55. Fuji
56. Obihiro
57. Beppu
58. Matsue
59. Gifu
60. Tottori

61. Numazu
62. Saga
63. Matsusaka
64. Yonago
65. Sasebo
66. Kure
67. Iida
68. Ishinomaki
69. Takayama
70. Shimonoseki

71. Kurume
72. Tomakomai
73. Hirosaki
74. Ueda
75. Nagaoka
76. Okaya
77. Karuizawa
78. Shinjo
79. Yokote
80. Odate

81. Mutsu
82. Towada
83. Misawa
84. Tomo
85. Tsu
86. Fukuyama
87. Ogawara
88. Tateyama
89. Tomamu
90. Yokkaichi

91. Odawara
92. Yamaguchi
93. Kitami
94. Otaru
95. Chitose
96. Muroran
97. Iwamizawa
98. Ishigaki
99. Nago
100. Hita

101. Yatsushiro
102. Nobeoka
103. Hyuga
104. Takanabe
105. Saito
106. Imabari
107. Saijo
108. Niihama
109. Shikokuchuo
110. Joetsu

111. Ise

3 Tokyo
36 Osaka
58 Nagoya
66 Kobe
85 Kyoto
140 Okinawa
144 Fukuoka
146 Fuji
150 Nagasaki
151 Hiroshima
160 Fukushima
162 Saitama
191 Chiba
197 Yokohama
199 Sapporo
201 Okayama
232 Nagano
245 Mito
279 Shizuoka
298 Miyagi (Sendai?)
328 Oita
355 Kumamoto
360 Nara
407 Otsu
440 Gifu
478 Iwate (Morioka?

Combinations:
Kawaguchi, Fuchu with Tokyo

Otsu with Kyoto

Toyota, Okazaki, Ichinomiya, Kasugai with Nagoya

Ebetsu, Ishikari, Kitahiroshima with Sapporo

Kamakura, Yokosuka with Yokohama

Okinawa, Uruma, Urasoe, Ginowan, Tomigusuku with Naha

Sagamihara with Kawasaki

Kurashiki with Okayama

Maebashi with Takasaki

Mishima with Numazu

Eniwa with Chitose