ATLAS · NATIONAL CAPITALS · JAPAN
Capital of Japan
The capital of Japan is Tokyo. The largest, Tokyo, has around 14,264,798 residents in the city proper — a mega-capital. From Wikidata, snapshot 2026-06-23.
CAPITALTokyo
POPULATION14,264,798
NUMBER OF CAPITALS1
The capital
Tokyo14,264,798 people
In context
Where Tokyosits on the world’s scale of capital sizes — from the micro-capitals of a few hundred to the mega-capitals of over ten million.
10M+Tokyo is here
5–10M
1–5M
250k–1M
50–250k
<50k
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