List of Towns in Japan

List Of Towns In Japan

A town (町; chō or machi) is a local administrative unit in Japan. It is a local public body along with prefecture (ken or other equivalents), city (shi), and village (mura). Geographically, a town is contained within a prefecture.

Note that the same word (町; machi or chō) is also used in names of smaller regions, usually a part of a ward in a city. This is a legacy of when smaller towns were formed on the outskirts of a city, only to eventually merge into it.

Read more about List Of Towns In Japan:  Aichi Prefecture, Akita Prefecture, Aomori Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Ehime Prefecture, Fukui Prefecture, Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukushima Prefecture, Gifu Prefecture, Gunma Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Hyōgo Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Ishikawa Prefecture, Iwate Prefecture, Kagawa Prefecture, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kōchi Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, Mie Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, Miyazaki Prefecture, Nagano Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture, Nara Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, Ōita Prefecture, Okayama Prefecture, Okinawa Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture, Saga Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Shiga Prefecture, Shimane Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Tokushima Prefecture, Tokyo Metropolis, Tottori Prefecture, Toyama Prefecture, Wakayama Prefecture, Yamagata Prefecture, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Yamanashi Prefecture

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