• City of Kobe / 神戸市. Tips for your trips. Tourist information. Official websites. Tourism website + Government website. 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 Keihans [.....]

• City of Hiroshima / 広島市. Tips for your trips. Tourist information. Official websites. Tourism website + Government website. 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 [.....]

• City of Kanazawa / 金沢市. Tips for your trips. Tourist information. Official websites. Tourism website + Government website. 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 [.....]

• City of Nara / 奈良市. Tips for your trips. Tourist information. Official websites. Tourism website + Government website. 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 fam [.....]

• City of Sapporo / 札幌市. Tips for your trips. Tourist information. Official websites. Tourism website + Government website. 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 arc [.....]

• City of Sendai / 仙台市. Tips for your trips. Tourist information. Official websites. Tourism website + Government website. 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 ou [.....]

• City of Yokohama / 横浜市. Tips for your trips. Tourist information. Official websites. Tourism website + Government website. 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 foreigner [.....]

• City of Fukuoka / 福岡市. Tips for your trips. Tourist information. Official websites. Tourism website + Government website. 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: th [.....]

• City of Tokyo / 東京. Tips for your trips. Tourist information. Official websites. Tourism website + Government website. Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, is a vibrant and bustling metropolis that offers a blend of traditional and modern attractions. Tokyo is vast: it’s best thought of not [.....]

• City of Kyoto / 京都. Tips for your trips. Tourist information. Official websites. Tourism website + Government website. 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 c [.....]