Guess Big villages in Japan

A quick look at the 239 big villages you can be asked to find on the map, before you play.

GuessTheDot is a free geography guessing game: you get a place name and a map full of dots, then click the one you think is right.

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Villages with enough people that locals would call them a proper town, but small enough that they rarely make the news. Ranked play starts here, since cities are too easy to be a real test.

In Japan this set is spread across 41 different prefectures, with Saitama home to the most of them (26).

How this category is defined

Place kinds on GuessTheDot are a practical grouping by population and place type for gameplay, not a legal or historical designation. A place can hold official city rights (or an old city charter) and still show up here as a village if it stayed small, and the other way around: this is a rough size ladder for guessing, not a statement about a place's official status.

Places in this set

239

Smallest population

75,033

Largest population

459,593

Median population

108,991

Two you might get asked about

Katano
75,033 inhabitants, Osaka
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Amagasaki
459,593 inhabitants, Hyōgo
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

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All 239 big villages in Japan

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	prefecture
Amagasaki	459,593	Hyōgo
Katsushika	453,093	Tokyo
Fujisawa	439,728	Kanagawa
Yokosuka	409,478	Kanagawa
Hirakata	406,331	Osaka
Toyonaka	401,558	Osaka
Suita	385,567	Osaka
Ichinomiya	380,073	Aichi
Kawagoe	354,571	Saitama
Koshigaya	345,353	Saitama
Ōtsu	345,070	Shiga
Nakano	344,880	Tokyo
Kita	332,140	Tokyo
Kasugai	308,681	Aichi
Akashi	303,601	Hyōgo
Ibaraki	287,730	Osaka
Ichihara	283,531	Chiba
Yao	273,213	Osaka
Shimonoseki	265,684	Yamaguchi
Fuchū	262,790	Tokyo
Minato City	260,486	Tokyo
Sōka	249,645	Saitama
Chōfu	242,614	Tokyo
Yamato	242,065	Kanagawa
Neyagawa	238,549	Osaka
Kasukabe	229,792	Saitama
Ageo	226,940	Saitama
Takarazuka	226,432	Hyōgo
Minamirinkan	224,015	Kanagawa
Atsugi	223,960	Kanagawa
Nishi-Tokyo-shi	207,388	Tokyo
Kishiwada	205,561	Osaka
Nagareyama	200,136	Chiba
Yachiyo	199,498	Chiba
Kodaira	198,739	Tokyo
Itami	198,138	Hyōgo
Uji	192,925	Kyoto
Hino	190,435	Tokyo
Izumi	184,615	Osaka
Tachikawa	183,581	Tokyo
Narashino	176,197	Chiba
Sakura	173,740	Chiba
Kamakura	172,929	Kanagawa
Urayasu	171,362	Chiba
Chūō	169,179	Tokyo
Iwata	166,672	Shizuoka
Niiza	166,017	Saitama
Kawanishi	155,165	Hyōgo
Noda	154,114	Chiba
Higashimurayama	151,815	Tokyo
Kukichūō	150,582	Saitama
Musashino	150,149	Tokyo
Komaki	148,872	Aichi
Tama	148,285	Tokyo
Iruma	147,166	Saitama
Fujieda	145,032	Shizuoka
Kusatsu	143,913	Shiga
Moriguchi	143,096	Osaka
Misato, Saitama	142,145	Saitama
Asaka	141,083	Saitama
Shimotoda	140,899	Saitama
Yaizu	139,578	Shizuoka
Minoh	136,868	Osaka
Ebina	136,516	Kanagawa
Isahaya	135,546	Nagasaki
Inazawa	134,751	Aichi
Ebetsu	133,953	Hokkaido
Ōme	133,535	Tokyo
Tondabayashichō	132,873	Osaka
Zama	132,325	Kanagawa
Abiko	131,771	Chiba
Kadoma	131,727	Osaka
Onomichi	131,170	Hiroshima
Matsubara	130,855	Osaka
Kokubunji	129,242	Tokyo
Iwakuni	129,125	Yamaguchi
Ōsaki	128,763	Miyagi
Seto	127,792	Aichi
Iizuka	126,364	Fukuoka
Koganei	126,074	Tokyo
Tsuruoka	125,389	Yamagata
Uruma	125,303	Okinawa
Kashihara-shi	124,521	Nara
Ise	123,533	Mie
Kirishima	123,205	Kagoshima
Honmachi	123,067	Kumamoto
Niihama	123,059	Ehime
Beppu	122,643	Oita
Kashiwara	120,922	Nara
Ikoma	120,741	Nara
Nobeoka	119,521	Miyazaki
Daitō	119,367	Osaka
Kitami	119,135	Hokkaido
Aizu-Wakamatsu	118,159	Fukushima
Kakegawa	117,925	Shizuoka
Handa	117,884	Aichi
Sano	117,669	Tochigi
Karatsu	117,663	Saga
Higashikurume	117,020	Tokyo
Hōfu	116,925	Yamaguchi
Kōnosu	116,828	Saitama
Nasushiobara	115,794	Tochigi
Urasoe	115,690	Okinawa
Otaru	115,333	Hokkaido
Ichinoseki	114,476	Iwate
Hatsukaichi	114,173	Hiroshima
Akishima	113,949	Tokyo
Tōkai	113,787	Aichi
Hikone	113,647	Shiga
Nagahama	113,636	Shiga
Fujimino	113,597	Saitama
Ōshū	112,937	Iwate
Youkaichi	112,819	Shiga
Kazo	112,792	Saitama
Kasuga	111,023	Fukuoka
Matsutō	110,408	Ishikawa
Kamagaya	109,932	Chiba
Marugame	109,513	Kagawa
Habikino	109,479	Osaka
Kiryū	108,991	Gunma
Iwatsuki	108,833	Saitama
Komatsu	108,509	Ishikawa
Mishima	107,851	Shizuoka
Tajimi	107,818	Gifu
Inzai	105,463	Chiba
Ikeda	104,993	Osaka
Saijō	104,791	Ehime
Toride	104,524	Ibaraki
Isehara	103,401	Kanagawa
Chikushino-shi	103,311	Fukuoka
Yono	102,364	Saitama
Tsuyama	102,294	Okayama
Kani	102,143	Gifu
Ōnojō	102,085	Fukuoka
Kawachi-Nagano	101,692	Osaka
Iida	101,536	Nagano
Tokuyama	101,133	Yamaguchi
Kanoya	101,096	Kagoshima
Chikusei	100,753	Ibaraki
Sakado	100,275	Saitama
Sakata	100,273	Yamagata
Izumisano	100,131	Osaka
Ginowan	100,125	Okinawa
Saku	99,131	Nagano
Itoshima	98,877	Fukuoka
Kōnan	98,255	Aichi
Chitose	97,950	Hokkaido
Kameoka	97,181	Kyoto
Munakata	97,095	Fukuoka
Shibata	96,236	Niigata
Muroran	96,197	Hokkaido
Shimada	95,719	Shizuoka
Kamisu	95,454	Ibaraki
Ōmura	95,397	Nagasaki
Yotsukaidō	95,266	Chiba
Kanuma	94,903	Tochigi
Hanamaki	94,691	Iwate
Sanjō	94,642	Niigata
Yonezawa	94,486	Yamagata
Azumino	94,222	Nagano
Ashiya	93,922	Hyōgo
Yashio	93,363	Saitama
Inagi	93,151	Tokyo
Ōbu	93,123	Aichi
Kitakami	93,045	Iwate
Kaizuka	92,632	Osaka
Maizuru	92,465	Kyoto
Sendai	92,403	Kagoshima
Sakai	92,210	Fukui
Nisshin	91,795	Aichi
Higashi-Matsuyama	91,791	Saitama
Daisen	91,143	Akita
Imizu	90,742	Toyama
Mihara	90,573	Hiroshima
Kōka	89,619	Shiga
Iga	88,895	Mie
Takayama	88,473	Gifu
Fukuroi	88,395	Shizuoka
Mobara	88,330	Chiba
Takasago	87,722	Hyōgo
Settsu	87,456	Osaka
Gotemba	86,614	Shizuoka
Hamakita	86,502	Shizuoka
Kitanagoya	86,385	Aichi
Gyōda	86,343	Saitama
Kashiwazaki	86,183	Niigata
Ama	86,126	Aichi
Ryūgasaki	85,761	Ibaraki
Yokote	85,555	Akita
Moriyama	85,485	Shiga
Sekimachi	85,283	Gifu
Iwamizawa	85,107	Hokkaido
Komae	84,772	Tokyo
Nakatsu	84,701	Oita
Ushiku	84,651	Ibaraki
Chita	84,364	Aichi
Wako	83,989	Saitama
Ayase	83,913	Kanagawa
Higashiyamato	83,901	Tokyo
Yamatokōriyama	83,285	Nara
Owariasahi	83,144	Aichi
Amakusa	83,082	Kumamoto
Echizen	83,078	Fukui
Kimitsu	83,058	Chiba
Kamigyō-ku	83,000	Kyoto
Shikokuchūō	82,754	Ehime
Ōmihachiman	82,233	Shiga
Akiruno	81,912	Tokyo
Tatebayashi	81,274	Gunma
Kōtari	80,608	Kyoto
Hannō	80,361	Saitama
Gamagōri	80,063	Aichi
Kashihara	79,058	Osaka
Nakatsugawa	78,930	Gifu
Mooka	78,720	Tochigi
Natori-shi	78,718	Miyagi
Honjō	78,569	Saitama
Toyooka	78,348	Hyōgo
Kashiba	78,113	Nara
Kizugawa	77,907	Kyoto
Tome	77,897	Miyagi
Nikkō	77,661	Tochigi
Tsubame	77,382	Niigata
Fukuchiyama	77,306	Kyoto
Kunitachi	77,130	Tokyo
Nabari	77,022	Mie
Tsurusaki	76,968	Oita
Shiki	76,445	Saitama
Aira	76,348	Kagoshima
Furukawa	76,312	Miyagi
Kiyose	76,208	Tokyo
Shibukawa	76,098	Gunma
Yurihonjō	76,077	Akita
Takefu	75,753	Fukui
Warabi	75,614	Saitama
Miki	75,450	Hyōgo
Kai	75,313	Yamanashi
Okegawa	75,062	Saitama
Katano	75,033	Osaka

Tips for this category

These places cluster around bigger cities more than you would expect: check the commuter belt of the nearest big city first.
Names ending in common local suffixes (think "-dorp", "-ham", "-ville") often hint at the region, not just the country.

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