Chūkyō Metropolitan Area

Chūkyō Metropolitan Area 中京圏
Nagoya
Country	Japan
Largest City	Nagoya
Area
• Metro	7,072 km^2 (2,731 sq mi)
Population (Population Census of Japan 2010)[1]
• Metro	9,107,414
• Metro density	1,288/km^2 (3,335/sq mi)

Chūkyō (中京圏 Chūkyō-ken), or the Chūkyō region (中京地方 Chūkyō-chihō), is a major metropolitan area in Japan that is centered on the city of Nagoya (the "Chūkyō", i.e., the "capital in the middle") in Aichi Prefecture. The area makes up the most-urban part of the Tōkai region. The population (as of 2010) of 9,107,414 over an area of 7,072 square kilometers.

It is among the 50 most-populous metropolitan areas in the world and is the third-most-populous metropolitan area in Japan (after Greater Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto), containing roughly 7% of Japan's population. Historically, this region has taken a back seat to the other two power centers, both politically and economically; however, the agglomeration of Nagoya is the 22nd-largest economy, in terms of gross metropolitan product at purchasing power parity in 2014, according to a study by the Brookings Institution.^[2]

Municipalities

The metropolitan area stretches beyond the central city of Nagoya to other municipalities in Aichi Prefecture, as well as neighboring Gifu and Mie prefectures.

Aichi Prefecture

Western Aichi Prefecture

• Aisai
• Ama
• Chita
• Handa
• Ichinomiya
• Inazawa
• Inuyama
• Iwakura
• Kasugai
• Komaki
• Kitanagoya
• Kiyosu
• Kōnan
• Nagakute
• Nisshin
• ÅŒbu
• Owariasahi
• Seto
• Tōkai
• Tokoname
• Toyoake
• Tsushima
• Yatomi

Eastern Aichi Prefecture

• Anjō
• ChiryÅ«
• Gamagori
• Hekinan
• Kariya
• Miyoshi
• Nishio
• Okazaki
• Tahara
• Takahama
• Toyohashi
• Toyokawa
• Toyota

Gifu Prefecture

• Ena
• Gifu
• Hashima
• Kaizu
• Kakamigahara
• Kani
• Minokamo
• Mizuho
• Mizunami
• Motosu
• Nakatsugawa
• ÅŒgaki
• Tajimi
• Toki

Mie Prefecture

• Inabe
• Kuwana
• Yokkaichi

Transport

Major airports

• ChÅ«bu Centrair International Airport
• Nagoya Airport

Major railways

There are at least 38 passenger train lines in the Greater Nagoya area. JR runs six, Nagoya Subway seven, Meitetsu 18, Kintetsu four, and five other operators one each.

JR Central Chūō Main Line Daita Line Kansai Main Line Takayama Main Line Tōkaidō Main Line Tōkaidō Shinkansen

Other operators Aichi Loop Line Aonami Line Ise Railway Jōhoku Line Kintetsu Linimo Meitetsu Nagoya Subway

Major intercity highways

• Chita-Hanto Expressway
• Chūō Expressway
• Higashi-Meihan Expressway
• Isewangan Expressway
• Meishin Expressway
• Tōkai Ring Expressway
• Tōkai-Hokuriku Expressway
• Tomei Expressway

See also

• Nagoya
• Greater Nagoya Initiative
• ChÅ«kyō Industrial Area
• ChÅ«kyō Television Broadcasting
• Chukyo University
• List of metropolitan areas in Japan by population

Notes

1. Statistics Bureau of Japan
2. 2014 GLOBAL METRO MONITOR MAP

The area defined by the Chukyo Area Person-Trip Survey, a study of commuter movement, is slightly different from the census definition. It includes southern Aichi and areas immediately north of Gifu City. It adds two cities in Aichi Prefecture (Tahara and Toyohashi) and two cities in Gifu Prefecture (Mino and Seki). Additionally, it excludes two cities in Gifu Prefecture (Ena and Nakatsugawa).