1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Japan
Compare this sourced profile of Shizuoka, 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 Shizuoka—693,389, 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 Shizuoka is GeoNames ID 1851717. Its recorded administrative path is Shizuoka Shi → Shizuoka → Japan, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Shizuoka 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, Shizuoka ranks 793 by recorded population. Inside the 34 selected Japan entries it ranks 23; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 443. Its 693,389 population value is 0.90 times the 769,894 median for the country cohort and 0.69 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Shizuoka sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Japan entries. Shizuoka'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.
Shizuoka's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Hamamatsu at 67.167 km with 791,707 recorded people; Sagamihara at 101.412 km with 720,780 recorded people; Aihara at 108.984 km with 725,493 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 41.817 km. Compared with Hamamatsu, Shizuoka's recorded population is 0.88 times as large. Against Shizuoka, Hamamatsu follows Hamamatsu Shi → Shizuoka → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Shizuoka's. Against Shizuoka, Sagamihara 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Shizuoka's. Against Shizuoka, 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 first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Shizuoka's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 542 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Shizuoka'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 1851717, the coordinate pair 34.9833 / 138.3833, country rank 23 of 34, and neighbor GeoNames 1863289 at 67.167 km bind Shizuoka to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Shizuoka's reference point is 34.9833° north and 138.3833° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tokyo is shared by 34 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Shizuoka's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Shizuoka's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Shizuoka's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Shizuoka, 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
Shizuoka's closest other entries in this atlas are Hamamatsu (67.167 km), Sagamihara (101.412 km), Aihara (108.984 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.