Kota utama

Bagean pamarentahan Jepang
Tingkat wewengkon
Wewengkon (地方 chihō)
Tingkat préféktur
Préféktur (都道府県 todōfuken)
Tingkat subpréféktur
Subpréféktur (支庁 shichō)
Kota metropolitan
(政令指定都市 seirei-shitei-toshi)
Distrik (郡 gun)
Tingkat kota
Kota utama (中核市 chūkaku-shi)
Kota husus (特例市 tokurei-shi)
Kota (市 shi)
Special Wards (特別区 tokubetsu-ku)
Wards (区 ku)
Kacamatan (町 chō / machi)
Desa (村 son / mura)

Kota utama (中核市 Chūkakushi?) nyaéta kelas kota Jepang dijieun ku klausul kahiji Artikel 252, Bagian 22 di antara Undang-undang Otonomi Lokal Jepang. Kota utama dibéré fungsi tugas ku pamaréntah préféktur, tapi teu saloba Designated Cities. Keur jadi kota utama, hiji kota ku mibanda kaayaan saperti di handap:

  1. Populasi antara 300,000 nepi ka 500,000.
  2. Legana wewengkon 100 km².

Usulan sangkan jadi kota ieu perlu disatujuan ku dewan perwakila kota jeung préféktur.

Runtuyan kota utama

Dina taun 2006, 37 kota geus dipilih salaku kota utama:

1 April, 1996

  • Kumamoto, Kumamoto
  • Kagoshima, Kagoshima

1 April, 1997

  • Wakayama, Wakayama
  • Nagasaki, Nagasaki
  • Ōita, Ōita

1 April, 1998

  • Toyota, Aichi
  • Fukuyama, Hiroshima
  • Kōchi, Kōchi
  • Miyazaki, Miyazaki

1 April, 1999

  • Iwaki, Fukushima
  • Nagano, Nagano
  • Toyohashi, Aichi
  • Takamatsu, Kagawa

1 April, 2000

  • Asahikawa, Hokkaidō

1 April, 2001

  • Yokosuka, Kanagawa

1 April, 2002

  • Nara, Nara
  • Kurashiki, Okayama

1 April, 2003

  • Kawagoe, Saitama
  • Funabashi, Chiba
  • Sagamihara, Kanagawa
  • Okazaki, Aichi
  • Takatsuki, Osaka

1 April, 2005

  • Toyama, Toyama (reclassified after merger with Ōsawano, Ōyama, Yatsuo, Fuchū, Yamada, jeung Hosoiri)
  • Higashiōsaka, Osaka

1 Oktober, 2005

  • Hakodate, Hokkaidō
  • Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi

1 Oktober, 2006

Kota utama samemehna

  • Shizuoka, Shizuoka
    Designated on 1 April 1996, redesignated as a core city after the former cities of Shimizu and Shizuoka merged to form the new city of Shizuoka on 1 April 2003, achieved the status of designated city in 2005.
  • Sakai, Osaka
    Designated on 1 April 1996, achieved the status of designated city in 2006.
  • Niigata, Niigata
  • Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
    Both designated on 1 April 1996, achieved the status of designated city in 2007.

Calon kota utama

Di handap ieu, kota-kota nu bakal jadi kota utama.

1 April 2008

  • Nishinomiya, Hyōgo
  • Morioka, Iwate
  • Kashiwa, Chiba
  • Kurume, Fukuoka

After April 2008

  • Yokkaichi, Mie

During April 2009

  • Maebashi, Gunma
  • Otsu, Shiga

Within 2009

  • Amagasaki, Hyōgo

During 2011

  • Takasaki, Gunma

Awaiting designation

The following cities have populations gréater than 300,000 but have not yet been nominated. (Cities planning to apply for core city status are not shown. ※Special Cities)

  • Kawaguchi, Saitama※
  • Koshigaya, Saitama※
  • Tokorozawa, Saitama※
  • Matsudo, Chiba
  • Ichikawa, Chiba
  • Hachiōji, Tokyo
  • Machida, Tokyo
  • Fujisawa, Kanagawa
  • Ichinomiya, Aichi※
  • Hirakata, Osaka※
  • Suita, Osaka※
  • Toyonaka, Osaka※
  • Naha, Okinawa