1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
Compare this sourced profile of Himeji, 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 Himeji—530,495, 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 Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Himeji is GeoNames ID 1862627. Its recorded administrative path is Himeji Shi → Hyogo → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Himeji 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 2025-06-21; 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, Himeji ranks 1,065 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 28; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 563. Its 530,495 population value is 0.69 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 0.53 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Himeji sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Japan entries. Himeji's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Himeji's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kobe at 46.276 km with 1,525,152 recorded people; Nishinomiya at 58.812 km with 485,587 recorded people; Okayama at 72.469 km with 724,691 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 26.193 km. Compared with Kobe, Himeji's recorded population is 0.35 times as large. Against Himeji, Kobe follows Kobe Shi → Hyogo → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Japan cohort, uses the shared Asia/Tokyo identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Himeji's. Against Himeji, Nishinomiya follows Nishinomiya Shi → Hyogo → Japan in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher 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 below Himeji's. Against Himeji, Okayama follows Okayama Shi → Okayama → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Himeji's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 402 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Himeji's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter of atlas distances. 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 1862627, the coordinate pair 34.8167 / 134.7000, country rank 28 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1859171 at 46.276 km bind Himeji to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Himeji's reference point is 34.8167° north and 134.7000° 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. Himeji's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Himeji's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Himeji's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Himeji, 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
Himeji's closest other entries in this atlas are Kobe (46.276 km), Nishinomiya (58.812 km), Okayama (72.469 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 2025-06-21; 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.