1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
Compare this sourced profile of Kurashiki, 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 Kurashiki—483,576, 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 Okayama prefecture, Japan.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kurashiki is GeoNames ID 1858311. Its recorded administrative path is Kurashiki Shi → Okayama → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Kurashiki 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 2022-09-03; 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, Kurashiki ranks 1,184 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 34; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 625. Its 483,576 population value is 0.63 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 0.48 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kurashiki sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Japan entries. Kurashiki'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.
Kurashiki's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Okayama at 16.957 km with 724,691 recorded people; Himeji at 89.181 km with 530,495 recorded people; Hiroshima at 122.379 km with 1,200,754 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 105.422 km. Compared with Okayama, Kurashiki's recorded population is 0.67 times as large. Against Kurashiki, Okayama follows Okayama Shi → Okayama → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Kurashiki's. Against Kurashiki, Himeji follows Himeji Shi → Hyogo → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Kurashiki's. Against Kurashiki, Hiroshima follows Hiroshima-shi → Hiroshima → 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 Kurashiki's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 236 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kurashiki's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter 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 1858311, the coordinate pair 34.5833 / 133.7667, country rank 34 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1854383 at 16.957 km bind Kurashiki to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kurashiki's reference point is 34.5833° north and 133.7667° 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. Kurashiki's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kurashiki's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kurashiki's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kurashiki, 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
Kurashiki's closest other entries in this atlas are Okayama (16.957 km), Himeji (89.181 km), Hiroshima (122.379 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-09-03; 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.