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Combined sales floor area of retail stores in the city (2021 Economic Census). A gauge of shopping convenience by scale; towns and villages are aggregated into county totals and not shown.
Source: e-Stat 経済センサス-活動調査（卸売業・小売業に関する集計）
In 2021, Nagoya, Aichi recorded the highest Retail floor area (2,784,617㎡) and Utashinai-shi, Hokkaido the lowest (576㎡) among 983 municipalities in Japan. The national average is 155,383㎡. Source: e-Stat 経済センサス-活動調査（卸売業・小売業に関する集計）.
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▲ The top 5 are tinted sky, ▼ the bottom 5 amber. Ties share a rank (standard competition ranking).
The same metric at prefecture level lives at /ranking/muni_retail_floor_area. For each municipality’s trend and detail, open its page from the municipality index.
Note: trend charts live on each municipality page (/municipality/{code}). This page does one thing — line up the whole country on a single axis.