| Clue | City | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | Famous for its beef | Kobe | 91%
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| F | Most populous in Kyushu | Fukuoka | 90%
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| T | Named itself after Japan's largest car company | Toyota | 86%
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| H | Where the "Little Boy" was dropped | Hiroshima | 85%
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| Y | Second-most populous in Japan | Yokohama | 81%
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| N | 1998 Winter Olympics host | Nagano | 75%
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| O | Namesake of the southernmost prefecture of Japan | Okinawa | 71%
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| C | Greater Tokyo suburb home to theworld's longest suspended monorail | Chiba | 64%
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| A | Honshu's northernmost major city | Aomori | 63%
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| S | Most affected major city of the 2011 earthquake | Sendai | 59%
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| D | City in Fukushima or a palm fruit | Date | 49%
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| G | Namesake of a landlocked prefecture | Gifu | 48%
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| M | Namesake of the Studio Ghibli creator | Miyazaki | 48%
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| W | Largest on the Kii peninsula | Wakayama | 47%
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| Z | It's not a sushi knock off, it's a city in the Kanagawa prefecture | Zushi | 47%
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| B | Second-largest in Ōita prefecture | Beppu | 42%
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| U | Capital of the Tochigi prefecture | Utsunomiya | 40%
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| J | Third-largest in Niigata prefecture | Jōetsu | 35%
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| I | Major city in Keihanshin with namesake of a prefecture in central Honshu | Ibaraki | 33%
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| E | Largest suburb of Greater Sapporo | Ebetsu | 29%
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| R | City in Kansai that is home to one ofJapan's two most prestigious horse-racing training centers | Rittō | 14%
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