Kansai
Kansai is the western region of the main Japanese island of Honshu, second only to Kanto region of Eastern Japan in population. The area is also known as Kinki District, literally "near the capital", and its three big cities - Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe - as Keihanshin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Osaka and Kyoto.
Osaka
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Ōsaka is the beating heart of Japan's Kansai region and the largest of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto trio of cities, with a population of over 17 million people in the greater metropolitan area.
Kyoto
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Kyōto was the capital of Japan for over a millennium, and carries a reputation as the nation's most beautiful city and its cultural capital - even the national government's Agency for Cultural Affairs moved there in 2023.
Kobe
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Kōbe is a historic port city in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan. Together with Kyoto and Osaka, it makes up the three-city agglomeration of Keihanshin, Japan's largest after greater Tokyo.
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Osaka
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Osaka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 and has a geographic area of 1,905 square kilometres.
Hyogo
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Hyōgo Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 and a geographic area of 8,400 square kilometres.
Kyoto
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Kyoto Prefecture is in the Kansai region of Japan. It contains both a coastal region to the north, and broad, more densely populated basins in the south.
Mie
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Mie Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Mie Prefecture has a population of 1,781,948 and has a geographic area of 5,774 square kilometers.
Shiga
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Shiga Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,398,972 as of 1 February 2025 and has a geographic area of 4,017 km2.
Nara
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Nara Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. As of 2020, Nara Prefecture has a population of 1,321,805 and has a geographic area of 3,691 square kilometres.
Wakayama
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Wakayama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Wakayama Prefecture has a population of 876,030 and a geographic area of 4,724 square kilometres.
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Kansai
- Type: Region with 22,800,000 residents
- Description: region of Japan
- Also known as: “Kansai region”, “Kansai Region”, “Kinki Chiho”, “Kinki Chihō”, “Kinki District”, and “Kinki region”
- Neighbors: Chubu and Chugoku
- Categories: region of Japan and statistical territorial entity
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kansai” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانسائي”
- Arabic: “كانساي”
- Arabic: “منطقة كانسائي”
- Arabic: “منطقة كانساي”
- Arabic: “منطقة كينكي”
- Arabic: “منطقه كانساي”
- Armenian: “Կինկի”
- Asturian: “Rexón de Kansai”
- Azerbaijani: “Kansay regionu”
- Azerbaijani: “Kansay”
- Balinese: “Wawengkon Kansai”
- Basque: “Kansai eskualdea”
- Basque: “Kinki eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Кансай, рэгіён”
- Belarusian: “Кансай”
- Belarusian: “Кінай”
- Belarusian: “Кінкі”
- Belarusian: “рэгіён Кансай”
- Bengali: “কান্সাই অঞ্চল”
- Burmese: “ခန်ဆိုင်းဒေသ”
- Catalan: “Kansai”
- Catalan: “Kinki-chihō”
- Catalan: “Kinki”
- Catalan: “Regió de Kansai”
- Catalan: “Regió de Kinki”
- Catalan: “近畿”
- Catalan: “近畿地方”
- Catalan: “関西”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی کانسای”
- Chinese: “Kinki tē-hng”
- Chinese: “近畿”
- Chinese: “近畿圈”
- Chinese: “近畿地區”
- Chinese: “近畿地方”
- Chinese: “近畿廣域圈”
- Chinese: “近畿廣域圏”
- Chinese: “關西”
- Chinese: “關西地方”
- Croatian: “Kansai regija”
- Croatian: “Kansai”
- Czech: “Kansai”
- Czech: “Kinai”
- Czech: “Kinki”
- Danish: “Kansai”
- Dutch: “Kansai”
- Esperanto: “Kansai regiono”
- Esperanto: “Kansai”
- Esperanto: “Kansajo”
- Esperanto: “Kinki regiono”
- Esperanto: “Kinki-regiono”
- Esperanto: “Kinki”
- Estonian: “Kansai”
- Finnish: “Kansai”
- Finnish: “Kinki”
- French: “Kansai”
- French: “Kansaï”
- French: “Kinai”
- French: “Kinaï”
- French: “Kinki”
- French: “région du Kansai”
- French: “Région du Kansai”
- French: “région du Kansaï”
- French: “Région du Kansaï”
- Georgian: “კანსაი”
- German: “Goki”
- German: “Gokinai”
- German: “Kansai”
- German: “Kinai-Ebene”
- German: “Kinai”
- German: “Kinki”
- Hakka Chinese: “Khiûn-ki Thi-fông”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kinki”
- Hebrew: “מחוז קינקי”
- Hebrew: “קנסאי”
- Hindi: “कंसाई क्षेत्र”
- Hindi: “कान्साइ क्षेत्र”
- Hindi: “किन्की क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Kanszai”
- Icelandic: “Kansai”
- Iloko: “Kansai”
- Iloko: “Rehion ti Kansai”
- Indonesian: “Kansai”
- Indonesian: “Kinki”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Kansai”
- Irish: “Kansai”
- Italian: “Kansai”
- Italian: “Kinai”
- Italian: “Kinki”
- Italian: “Regione di Kinki”
- Japanese: “近畿”
- Japanese: “近畿2府4県”
- Japanese: “近畿圏”
- Japanese: “近畿地方”
- Japanese: “関西”
- Japanese: “関西地区”
- Japanese: “関西地方”
- Javanese: “Kansai”
- Korean: “간사이 지방”
- Korean: “간사이”
- Korean: “관서 지방”
- Korean: “관서지방”
- Korean: “긴끼 지방”
- Korean: “긴끼지방”
- Korean: “긴키 지방”
- Korean: “긴키”
- Korean: “긴키지방”
- Korean: “일본 관서 지방”
- Korean: “일본 관서지방”
- Korean: “칸사이 지방”
- Korean: “칸사이”
- Korean: “칸사이지방”
- Korean: “킨키 지방”
- Korean: “킨키”
- Latvian: “Kansai reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Kansai regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Kansajaus regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Kansajo regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Kinki regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Kinki”
- Lombard: “Kansai”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Kansai”
- Macedonian: “Кансај”
- Malay: “Kansai”
- Malay: “Kawasan Kansai”
- Marathi: “कन्साई”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kīn-ki Tē-hng”
- Northern Frisian: “Kansai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kansai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kansairegionen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kansai”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kansairegionen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kinki”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kinkiregionen”
- Norwegian: “Kansairegionen”
- Ossetian: “Кансай”
- Pampanga: “Kansai labuad”
- Persian: “کانسای”
- Persian: “کینکی”
- Persian: “منطقه کانسای”
- Persian: “ناحیه کانسای”
- Persian: “ناحیهٔ کانسای”
- Polish: “Kansai”
- Polish: “Kinki”
- Polish: “region Kinki”
- Polish: “Region Kinki”
- Portuguese: “Kansai”
- Portuguese: “Kinai”
- Portuguese: “Kinki”
- Portuguese: “Região de Kansai”
- Quechua: “Kansai suyu”
- Romanian: “Kansai”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Kansai”
- Russian: “Кансай”
- Russian: “Кинай”
- Russian: “Кинки”
- Russian: “Район Кансай”
- Russian: “Район Кинки”
- Russian: “Регион Кансай”
- Russian: “Регион Кинки”
- Sardinian: “Kansai”
- Scots: “Kansai region”
- Scots: “Kansai”
- Serbian: “Kansai”
- Serbian: “Кансаи”
- Serbian: “Кансај”
- Serbian: “Кинки”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kansai”
- Sindhi: “ڪانسائي ريجن”
- Sinhala: “කන්සායි කලාපය”
- Slovak: “Kansai”
- Slovak: “Kinki”
- Slovenian: “Kansai”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانسای بؤلگهسی”
- Spanish: “Kansai region”
- Spanish: “Kansai”
- Spanish: “Kinai”
- Spanish: “Kinki”
- Spanish: “Region de Kansai”
- Spanish: “región de Kansai”
- Spanish: “Región de Kansai”
- Spanish: “Region de Kinai”
- Spanish: “Región de Kinai”
- Spanish: “Region de Kinki”
- Spanish: “región de Kinki”
- Sundanese: “Kansai”
- Sundanese: “Kinki region”
- Sundanese: “Kinki”
- Sundanese: “Wewengkon Kansai”
- Swedish: “Kansai”
- Swedish: “Kinai”
- Swedish: “Kinki”
- Tagalog: “Kansai region”
- Tagalog: “Kansai”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyon ng Kansai”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyong Kansai”
- Thai: “คันไซ”
- Thai: “คิงกิ”
- Thai: “ภาคคันไซ”
- Thai: “ภูมิภาคคันไซ”
- Turkish: “Kansai Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Kansai”
- Ukrainian: “Кансай”
- Ukrainian: “Кінкі”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Кінкі”
- Urdu: “کانسائی علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Cận Kỳ”
- Vietnamese: “Kansai”
- Vietnamese: “Kinki”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Kansai”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Kinki”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kansai”
- Welsh: “Kansai”
- Western Panjabi: “کینسائی”
- Wu Chinese: “近畿地方”
- Yue Chinese: “近畿地方”
- Yue Chinese: “關西地方”
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