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313 Places Japanese Locals Actually Named — The Full Index

日本人が実際に名前を挙げた313か所 — 全索引

Tokyo Kyoto Osaka Nara Hakone Yokohama Hokkaido Sapporo Fukuoka Beppu Hiroshima Nagoya Nikko Himeji Atami Kinosaki Onsen Yamagata Matsuyama Onsen

313 Places Japanese Locals Actually Named — The Full Index

Japanese travel advice in English is written almost entirely by visitors. This index is not: every one of these 313 places was named by a Japanese person, in Japanese, in a public comment section, with other Japanese people voting on the answer. We went through 75 of those comment sections, translated 1,110 comments, and indexed every place that came up — by city, with the article and the source video behind each one.

How this index was built

Every entry below comes from a Japanese-language YouTube comment section. We went through the comments under 75 Japanese videos about travel in Japan — comment sections holding 62,246 comments between them — and excerpted 1,110 of them, translating each one and keeping its real like count intact. Those 1,110 quoted comments carry 873,324 likes between them. Along the way Japanese commenters named 313 distinct places, which appear as 318 entries below (five places come up in two different articles). This page is the index of all of them.

What makes this different from an English guidebook list: nobody here visited on a press trip, and nobody is recommending a place they were paid to visit. These are the places Japanese people named to each other, in Japanese, in public, with other Japanese people voting the answers up or down. We translate and count. We do not review, and we do not scrape Google Maps or Tabelog — see the methodology page for exactly what we do and don't do.

Caveat worth stating plainly: a place being named here means Japanese commenters named it, not that we verified it is open, good, or still priced the way a commenter said. Comment sections go stale. Every entry links back to the article it came from, and every article links back to the source video, so you can check the date and read the original yourself.

A note on the grouping: sections are named for the city an article is anchored to, and include that city's neighbourhoods and its usual day-trip range — a roundup of quiet onsen near Tokyo sits under Tokyo even though the baths themselves are in Gunma. Articles that genuinely span several regions are grouped under Nationwide & multi-region instead.

The numbers

75 source videos · 62,246 comments in those comment sections · 1,110 comments excerpted and translated · 873,324 likes on the comments we quoted · 313 distinct places named by Japanese commenters · 64 articles indexed below. Last rebuilt 31 July 2026.