List of Cities in Japan

A script that generates a list of cities/towns in Japan based on the official 都道府県コード及び市区町村コード version 2023/04/01. It includes English names.

npm audit fix

docker run -v "$PWD":/usr/src/app -w /usr/src/app node:8.17-alpine npm audit fix

Build

# https://github.com/nobuf/langlinks-server must be up and running
curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8080
#
git clone https://github.com/nobuf/list-of-cities-in-japan.git
cd list-of-cities-in-japan
docker-compose up --build
ls -l build

Download

• build/prefectures.csv
• build/cities_in_japan_2023.csv

Column Reference

prefectures.csv

• id — 5 digits code that represents the prefecture
• prefecture_id — 2 digits version of id
• prefecture_en — Name in English
• prefecture_ja — Name in Japanese

cities_in_japan_*.csv

• id — 5 digits code that represents the city/town (市区町村)
• prefecture_id — 2 digits prefecture ID
• city_en — Name in English. The translation comes from Wikipedia data via langlinks-server. Some names are like "Hakodate, Hokkaido" with its prefecture name while some of them are just "Otaru" without Hokkaido.
• city_ja — Name in Japanese.
• special_district_ja — Some big cities have special districts (特別区) within the city.

Contributing

If you have any ideas let @nobuf know by opening an issue. Pull requests are always welcome.

License

MIT