Kota utama

Bagean pamarentahan Jepang
Tingkat wewengkon
Wewengkon (地方ちほう chihō)
Tingkat préféktur
Préféktur (都道府県とどうふけん todōfuken)
Tingkat subpréféktur
Subpréféktur (支庁しちょう shichō)
Kota metropolitan (政令せいれい指定してい都市とし seirei-shitei-toshi)
Distrik (郡ぐん gun)
Tingkat kota
Kota utama (中核ちゅうかく市し chūkaku-shi)
Kota husus (特例とくれい市し tokurei-shi)
Kota (市し shi)
Special Wards (特別とくべつ区く tokubetsu-ku)
Wards (区く ku)
Kacamatan (町まち chō / machi)
Desa (村むら son / mura)

Kota utama (中核ちゅうかく市し, 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

Utsunomiya, Tochigi Toyama, Toyama Kanazawa, Ishikawa

Gifu, Gifu Himeji, Hyōgo Okayama, Okayama

Kumamoto, Kumamoto Kagoshima, Kagoshima

1 April, 1997

Akita, Akita Kōriyama, Fukushima

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

Matsuyama, Ehime

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

• Aomori, Aomori

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