Japan Municipal Income Ranking: Bunkyo Fifth, Chuo Fourth—Tokyo Core Sweeps the Top

Toyo Keizai ranks all 1,741 Japanese municipalities by average income per resident taxpayer: Bunkyo Ward fifth, Chuo Ward fourth, with the top three—by long-running pattern led by Minato Ward—kept as the article's hook. For readers, the ranking's real value is its overlap with the property map. An income ranking is a purchasing-power map: it tests whether high prices in a district rest on sustainable local earnings and signals where schools, retail, and healthcare will concentrate. Cross-checking a target neighborhood's income base is sturdier than chasing price momentum—narratives can inflate prices, but income bases don't fake. The other takeaway is the gap itself: multi-fold income differences between central Tokyo and regional towns are Japan's centralization problem in its rawest numeric form, and a base layer for anyone siting a regional business.