Kitakyushu
Kitakyushu (北九州市, Kitakyūshū-shi?, literally "Northern Kyūshū") is a city located in Fukuoka prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan. It is midway between Tokyo and Shanghai. Kitakyushu has a population of just under one million. Together with Shimonoseki on Honshū the city is the major part of the Kanmon Straits area, which has a total population of about 1.3 million, and Kokura station in Kitakyushu is 20 minutes by shinkansen from the largest city in Kyushu, Fukuoka which has a population of about 1.4 million, or 2.33 million in the greater Fukuoka urban area (福岡都市圏).
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