1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Sagamihara—720,780, 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.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Sagamihara is GeoNames ID 11611609. Its recorded administrative path is Sagamihara-shi → Kanagawa → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Sagamihara 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 2025-02-18; 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, Sagamihara ranks 771 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 22; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 435. Its 720,780 population value is 0.94 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 0.71 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Sagamihara sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Japan entries. Sagamihara'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.
Sagamihara's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Aihara at 7.708 km with 725,493 recorded people; Hachiōji-shi at 12.355 km with 579,355 recorded people; Yokohama at 39.843 km with 3,777,491 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 32.135 km. Compared with Aihara, Sagamihara's recorded population is 0.99 times as large. Against Sagamihara, Aihara follows Sagamihara-shi → Kanagawa → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Sagamihara's. Against Sagamihara, Hachiōji-shi follows Hachioji Shi → 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 the same second-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Sagamihara's. Against Sagamihara, Yokohama follows Yokohama Shi → Kanagawa → 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 Sagamihara's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 119 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sagamihara'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 11611609, the coordinate pair 35.5671 / 139.2417, country rank 22 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1865689 at 7.708 km bind Sagamihara to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sagamihara's reference point is 35.5671° north and 139.2417° 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. Sagamihara's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Sagamihara's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sagamihara's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sagamihara, 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
Sagamihara's closest other entries in this atlas are Aihara (7.708 km), Hachiōji-shi (12.355 km), Yokohama (39.843 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-02-18; 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.