City of Kobe / 神戸市 PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Kobe (map) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, about 30 km (19 mi) west of Osaka. Together with Kyoto and Osaka, it makes up the three-city agglomeration of Keihanshin (京阪神), Japan's largest after great [.....]
City of Hiroshima / 広島市 PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Hiroshima (map) is an industrial city of wide boulevards and criss-crossing rivers along the coast of the Seto Inland Sea. Hiroshima was the first city targeted by a nuclear weapon. This occurred on Aug [.....]
City of Kanazawa / 金沢市 PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Kanazawa (map) is a historic city in Ishikawa prefecture, Japan. For travelers who want to see one of the best-preserved major Edo-period cities in the country, it's hard to beat. Its relatively remote l [.....]
City of Nara / 奈良市 PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Nara (map) was the capital of Japan during the Nara period from 710 to 794 as the seat of the Emperor before the capital was moved to Kyoto. Overshadowed by its more famous neighbor Kyoto, Nara is omitted fr [.....]
City of Sapporo / 札幌市 PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Sapporo (map) is the capital and largest city of the northern island of Hokkaido. One of Japan's newest and nicest cities, it has little in the way of traditional architecture. But what it lacks in "Japan [.....]
City of Sendai / 仙台市 PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Sendai (map) is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, and the second largest city north of Tokyo. Sendai is 360 km (220 miles) from Tokyo, so it is often viewed as out of the way and difficult to access. [.....]
City of Yokohama / 横浜市 PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles On the western coast of Tokyo Bay directly south of Tokyo, Yokohama (横浜, map) is the second largest city in Japan and one of the cities most used to seeing foreigners. Yokohama was one of the cities to o [.....]
City of Fukuoka / 福岡市 PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Fukuoka (map) is the capital of Fukuoka prefecture and the largest city on the island of Kyushu. Historically, Fukuoka was two cities divided by the central river: the merchant town of Hakata (博多) and the [.....]
City of Tokyo / 東京 PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Officially Tokyo Metropolis (東京都) is the capital and most populous prefecture of Japan. The *Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37.393 million residents as [.....]
City of Kyoto / 京都 PAGE MENU >> Information • Transport • Links • All articles Kyoto (map) is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the *Kansai region. Kyoto forms a part of the *Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. Kyoto is considered the cultural capital of Japa [.....]
