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1,892 municipalities · primary sources only

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Flood, tsunami, landslide, earthquake probability, land price, climate and distance from major cities for all 1,892 Japanese municipalities, aggregated from primary sources and comparable side by side.

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Sources: National Land Numerical Information / Hazard Map Portal / J-SHIS / JMA no composite score, raw values only

Flood inundation area ratio LowHigh
Municipalities
1,892
Metrics
8
Primary sources
7
Composite scores
0

No scoring — just the raw values, side by side.

Map, list and detail on a single screen.

Filter on the left, sort on the right, open any town in place. Nothing sends you back and forth between pages while you compare.

The Settle Map screen: filter panel on the left, a map of Japan in the middle, the result list on the right, and a municipality detail drawer open in front

Three steps to a shortlist.

  1. 01

    Choose your conditions

    You don't need to know which thresholds are reasonable. Seven quick starts get you going from an intent instead.

    Flood resilient Lower quake risk Mild winter Cool summer Cheap land Within 100 km of Tokyo Within 100 km of Osaka Within 100 km of Nagoya Everyday convenience

  2. 02

    Compare on the map and in the list

    Colors show the nationwide distribution of the metric you picked. Read the shape on the map, check the ranking in the list; both follow the same filters.

    The dark-theme map with the flood-resilient filters applied

  3. 03

    Go from the detail to an akiya bank

    Every metric, its source and its nationwide rank on one screen, with a direct link to the municipality's vacant-home (akiya) bank or relocation page.

    A municipality detail opened on a phone

Eight metrics, as raw values.

Units and sources are shown as they are, because deciding what to trade off against what is your call, not ours.

We don't hide how the numbers are made.

Primary sources only

Everything is aggregated from National Land Numerical Information, the Hazard Map Portal, J-SHIS and the JMA mesh climate normals. No summary articles, no redistributed copies. Every metric carries its source and retrieval date.

Missing is not zero

Where a value could not be obtained we keep it null and record why. “Inland, so no tsunami area is designated” and “not published yet” look like the same blank but mean different things.

No composite score

Folding hazard risk, land price and temperature into one number requires justifying the weights. We cannot justify them from primary sources, so we do not rank: only raw values and where they sit in the nationwide distribution.

The calculation methods and the disclaimer are collected in Data sources & disclaimer.

Start from whichever condition matters to you.

Flood resilient Flood ≤ 5%, no tsunami area designated, landslide ≤ 5% Lower quake risk 6% or less chance of shindo 6-lower or above within 30 years Mild winter Average January temperature of 5℃ or above Cool summer Average August temperature of 24℃ or below Cheap land Median residential land price of 20,000 JPY/m² or below Within 100 km of Tokyo 100 km or less from Tokyo Station Within 100 km of Osaka 100 km or less from Osaka Station Within 100 km of Nagoya 100 km or less from Nagoya Station Everyday convenience Population 50,000 or more, most food stores first

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