Demographia

Japan Central Business District
Shares of Urban Area Employment

City Area Estimated Employment Share
of
Urban
Area
Employment
Notes
Tokyo Yamanote Loop 4,250,000 27%
Tokyo Core CBD 2,430,000 16%
Osaka Osaka Loop 1,380,000 18%
Nagoya Loop 740,000 19%
Tokyo Shinjuku 605,000 4%
Nagoya Core CBD 510,000 13%
Tokyo Shibuya 440,000 3%
Fukuoka Fukuoka-Hakata: CBD 325,000 35%
Kobe CBD 250,000 3%
Yokohama CBD 250,000 2%
Sapporo CBD 210,000 22%
Hiroshima CBD 130,000 26%
Kyoto CBD 110,000 1%
Sendai CBD 100,000 18%
Kitakyushu Kokura CBD 75,000 15%
Nagoya Core CBD includes part of Nakamura Ku  
Fukuoka may have the highest CBD market share of any major urban area in the high-income world.
Estimated by Demographia based upon Japan Statistics Bureau 2001 data.

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