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 — Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe — as Keihanshin.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
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.
Kobe
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Kōbe is a historic port city in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan.
Destinations
Osaka
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Osaka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu.
Hyogo
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Hyōgo Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu.
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.
Shiga
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Shiga Prefecture is in Kansai region of Japan. See also Biwako Visitors Bureau for tourism information in English.
Wakayama
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Wakayama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu.
Nara
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Nara Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu.
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Kansai
- Type: Region with 22,800,000 residents
- Description: region of Japan
- Neighbors: Chubu and Chugoku
- Categories: region of Japan and statistical territorial entity
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
35° northLongitude of centre
135.5° or 135° 30' eastPopulation
22,800,000Elevation
271 metres (889 feet)GeoNames ID
1859449Wikidata ID
Q164256Kansai Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Kansai
- Arabic: كانسائي
- Arabic: كانساي
- Arabic: منطقة كانسائي
- Arabic: منطقة كانساي
- Arabic: منطقة كينكي
- Arabic: منطقه كانساي
- Armenian: Կինկի
- Asturian: Rexón de Kansai
- Azerbaijani: Kansay
- Azerbaijani: Kansay regionu
- Balinese: Wawengkon Kansai
- Basque: Kansai eskualdea
- Basque: Kinki eskualdea
- Belarusian: Кансай, рэгіён
- Belarusian: Кансай
- Belarusian: Кінай
- Belarusian: Кінкі
- Belarusian: рэгіён Кансай
- Bengali: কান্সাই অঞ্চল
- 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
- Croatian: Kansai regija
- Czech: Kansai
- Czech: Kinai
- Czech: Kinki
- Danish: Kansai
- Dutch: Kansai
- English: Kansai region
- English: Kinki region
- Esperanto: Kansai
- Esperanto: Kansai regiono
- Esperanto: Kansajo
- Esperanto: Kinki-regiono
- Esperanto: Kinki
- Esperanto: Kinki regiono
- Finnish: Kansai
- Finnish: Kinki
- French: Kansai
- French: Kansaï
- French: Kinai
- French: Kinaï
- French: Kinki
- French: Région du Kansai
- French: Région du Kansaï
- French: région du Kansai
- French: région du Kansaï
- Georgian: კანსაი
- German: Goki
- German: Gokinai
- German: Kansai
- German: Kinai
- German: Kinai-Ebene
- German: Kinki
- Hakka Chinese: Khiûn-ki Thi-fông
- Hausa: Kinki
- Hebrew: מחוז קינקי
- Hebrew: קנסאי
- Hindi: कंसाई क्षेत्र
- Hindi: कान्साइ क्षेत्र
- Hindi: किन्की क्षेत्र
- Hungarian: Kanszai
- Iloko: Kansai
- Indonesian: Kansai
- Indonesian: Kinki
- Indonesian: Wilayah Kansai
- Irish: Kansai
- Italian: Kansai
- Italian: Kinai
- Italian: Kinki
- Italian: Regione di Kinki
- Japanese: 近畿2府4県
- Japanese: 近畿
- 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
- Korean: 간사이 지방
- Korean: 관서지방
- Korean: 관서 지방
- Korean: 긴끼지방
- Korean: 긴끼 지방
- Korean: 긴키
- Korean: 긴키지방
- Korean: 긴키 지방
- Korean: 일본 관서지방
- Korean: 일본 관서 지방
- Korean: 칸사이
- Korean: 칸사이 지방
- Korean: 칸사이지방
- Korean: 킨키
- Korean: 킨키 지방
- Lao: Rehion ti Kansai
- Latvian: Kansai reģions
- Lithuanian: Kansai regionas
- Lithuanian: Kansajaus regionas
- Lithuanian: Kinki
- Lithuanian: Kinki regionas
- Macedo-Romanian: Kansai
- Macedonian: Кансај
- Malay: Kansai
- Malay: Kawasan Kansai
- Marathi: कन्साई
- Min Nan Chinese: Kīn-ki Tē-hng
- Northern Frisian: Kansai
- Norwegian: Kansairegionen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kansai
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kansairegionen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kansai
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kansairegionen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kinki
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kinkiregionen
- Ossetian: Кансай
- Pampanga: Kansai labuad
- Persian: منطقه کانسای
- Persian: ناحیهٔ کانسای
- Persian: ناحیه کانسای
- Persian: کانسای
- Persian: کینکی
- 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
- Scots: Kansai region
- Serbian: Kansai
- Serbian: Кансаи
- Serbian: Кансај
- Serbian: Кинки
- Serbo-Croatian: Kansai
- Sinhala: කන්සායි කලාපය
- Slovak: Kansai
- Slovak: Kinki
- Slovenian: Kansai
- South Azerbaijani: کانسای بؤلگهسی
- Spanish: Kansai
- Spanish: Kansai region
- Spanish: Kinai
- Spanish: Kinki
- Spanish: Region de Kansai
- Spanish: Region de Kinai
- Spanish: Region de Kinki
- Spanish: Región de Kansai
- Spanish: Región de Kinai
- Spanish: región de Kansai
- Spanish: región de Kinki
- Sundanese: Kansai
- Sundanese: Kinki
- Sundanese: Kinki region
- Sundanese: Wewengkon Kansai
- Swedish: Kansai
- Swedish: Kinai
- Swedish: Kinki
- Tagalog: Kansai
- Tagalog: Kansai region
- Tagalog: Rehiyong Kansai
- Tagalog: Rehiyon ng Kansai
- Thai: คันไซ
- Thai: คิงกิ
- Thai: ภาคคันไซ
- Thai: ภูมิภาคคันไซ
- Turkish: Kansai
- Turkish: Kansai Bölgesi
- 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
- Kinki Chiho
- Kinki Chihō
- Kinki District
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Kansai. Photo: Corpse Reviver, CC BY-SA 3.0.