General.Japan stuff

Beweeen June 2006 and July 2008 we lived in Nagoya Japan. These pages were developed while over in Japan

Michael's Tourist Guide.to Japan

Photos From our Japanese experience

I have now been to many places in Japan and I have a few comments about my travels. Check this page for more information. Nagoya Photos from all our trips to different festivals, cities and tourist attractions.

Oddities.and Kitkats

Jokes.for expats

Some things that I found strange, different or odd...and my collection of Japanese KitKats. Doramon Only a few...
You've Been In Japan Too Long When...
The Negi (Japanzine's Humour Page) External Link

Expat.Nagoya stuff

The Relocation.Experience

History of Nagoya
(c) FreeFoto.com A document with my tips for others going through the same experience.

PDF Document for Download		 Toyotomi Hideyoshi
 A brief summary of the history of Nagoya. I knew very little before I came. It was an interesting story.

Useful links when living in Nagoya

Useful links Shops and Shopping in Nagoya
(c) FreeFoto.com A collection of Links to stuff useful to other expats in Nagoya. Basically a collection of links that I have found useful. It is not ment to be exhaustive. (c) FreeFoto.com This started as a "Hard to find" page but it has become more of a reference page for shopping in Nagoya





More Nagoya Background Information


weather Hongo Area    
Weather Charts
 Nagoya's Suburbs
Hongo - May 2008		    




Nagoya.Population

As an Australian, I had difficulty with the population of Nagoya (2.2 Million) compared to Melbourne (3.7 million). I could not understand why my city of Melbourne had more people, but Nagoya seemed bigger.

It all makes sense when you identify what is counted. I had the same problem in San Francisco where people kept telling me that there were less than a million people in San Francisco when I KNEW it was a huge city.

Basically if you look at the table below ( gathered from various Wikipedia pages) you can see that when I talk of Melbourne, I talk about something bigger than the whole Aichi prefecture (The province where Nagoya is the capital), so not really comparing apples against apples.

City/State
km²
Population
Year for
data
Population
per km²
San Francisco 121 739,426 2005 6,111
Nagoya 326 2,202,111 2004 6,746
Aichi Prefecture 5,154 7,130,802 2002 1,384
Melbourne 7,694 3,689,700 2006 480
Sydney 12,144 4,254,900 2004 350
S.F. Bay Area (9 Counties) 17,930 7,168,176
Combined
 400
Victoria (Australia) 237,629 5,037,700 2005 21
New South Wales 809,444 6,817,100 2006 8
Japan 377,873 128,085,000 2005 339



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