1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
Compare this sourced profile of Hachiōji-shi, Japan before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Hachiōji-shi—579,355, Asia/Tokyo, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in Tokyo, Japan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Hachiōji-shi is GeoNames ID 1863440. Its recorded administrative path is Hachioji Shi → Tokyo → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Hachiōji occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-12-29; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Hachiōji-shi ranks 960 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 26; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 517. Its 579,355 population value is 0.75 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 0.57 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Hachiōji-shi sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Japan entries. Hachiōji-shi's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Hachiōji-shi's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Aihara at 6.242 km with 725,493 recorded people; Sagamihara at 12.355 km with 720,780 recorded people; Tokyo at 33.436 km with 9,733,276 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 27.194 km. Compared with Aihara, Hachiōji-shi's recorded population is 0.80 times as large. Against Hachiōji-shi, Aihara follows Sagamihara-shi → Kanagawa → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Hachiōji-shi's. Against Hachiōji-shi, Sagamihara follows Sagamihara-shi → Kanagawa → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Hachiōji-shi's. Against Hachiōji-shi, Tokyo follows Tokyo → Japan in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Hachiōji-shi's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 85 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Hachiōji-shi's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1863440, the coordinate pair 35.6558 / 139.3239, country rank 26 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1865689 at 6.242 km bind Hachiōji-shi to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Hachiōji-shi's reference point is 35.6558° north and 139.3239° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tokyo is shared by 34 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Hachiōji-shi's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Hachiōji-shi's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Hachiōji-shi's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Hachiōji-shi, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Hachiōji-shi's closest other entries in this atlas are Aihara (6.242 km), Sagamihara (12.355 km), Tokyo (33.436 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2024-12-29; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.