1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
Compare this sourced profile of Sakai, 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 Sakai—826,161, 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 Sakai is GeoNames ID 1853195. Its recorded administrative path is Sakai Shi → Osaka → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Sakai 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, Sakai ranks 677 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 15; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 390. Its 826,161 population value is 1.07 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 0.82 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Sakai sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Japan population cohort. Sakai'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.
Sakai's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Osaka at 12.809 km with 2,753,862 recorded people; Higashiosaka at 14.231 km with 493,940 recorded people; Nishinomiya at 19.279 km with 485,587 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 6.47 km. Compared with Osaka, Sakai's recorded population is 0.30 times as large. Against Sakai, Osaka follows Osaka-shi → Osaka → 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 Sakai's. Against Sakai, Higashiosaka follows Higashiosaka Shi → Osaka → 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 Sakai's. Against Sakai, Nishinomiya follows Nishinomiya Shi → Hyogo → Japan in the source. Its point has higher 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 below Sakai's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 190 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sakai'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 1853195, the coordinate pair 34.5822 / 135.4665, country rank 15 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1853909 at 12.809 km bind Sakai to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sakai's reference point is 34.5822° north and 135.4665° 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. Sakai's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Sakai's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sakai's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sakai, 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
Sakai's closest other entries in this atlas are Osaka (12.809 km), Higashiosaka (14.231 km), Nishinomiya (19.279 km).
04Verify before you book
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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.