Guess Cities in Japan

A quick look at the 278 cities you can be asked to find on the map, before you play.

Regional cities: big enough to matter locally, small enough that most players outside the country have never heard of them. This is where guessing shifts from "I recognize the name" to "I recognize the region".

In Japan this set is spread across 45 different prefectures, with Saitama home to the most of them (21).

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

278

Smallest population

50,000

Largest population

99,131

Median population

67,722

Two you might get asked about

Arashiyama
50,000 inhabitants, Kyoto
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Saku
99,131 inhabitants, Nagano
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

Play Cities in Japan →

Tips for this category

Cluster them mentally by province or state first, then narrow down inside that cluster.
Distance to the nearest big city is a useful anchor if you know the bigger dots already.

Other place kinds in Japan

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