Observed arrival · 2026-09-19
Machi Kurabe: Compare Japanese Cities by the Numbers
A relocation database that compares Japanese prefectures and major cities using rent, prices, migration, housing construction, and land-value statistics.
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- People comparing Japanese relocation destinations
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- It covers 47 prefectures and 52 cities across five indicators, with source dates and calculation methods exposed.
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Machi Kurabe combines five statistical views of Japanese places rather than collapsing them into a single livability score. Its migration measure uses the difference between arrivals and departures over the latest 12 months, divided by population and multiplied by 1,000; rent is displayed per 3.3 square metres. The site also links its figures to government datasets and states that values are fetched automatically through the e-Stat API.
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