Japan-T (Cities of Japan, 1878)

Japan-T (Central Places of Japan, 1878) contains a record for every central place in Japan for the Western year 1878 CE (Meiji 11). The population figures used for the central place analysis were derived from a variety of sources, but were not fully documented, to our knowledge. In it's current form, there are 975 point features in the dataset, each with a t704_LUH (Level in the Urban Hierarchy) code: t704 Level in the central-place hierarchy 1 A Apex metropolis 2 C Central metropolis 3 M Regional metropolis 4 R Regional city 5 G Greater city 6 L Local town 7 C Central town 8 I Intermediate market town 9 S Standard market town 0 Suburban center or satellite town not counted as an independent central plac