Nagoya

Japan · Asia

100Safety indexLower concern

U.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Global Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

UK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Smartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions

5/5metric categories covered

Open comparison

35.18°, 136.91°

Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Nagoya sits at the top of our index, scoring 100 out of 100 and in the safest tier of the cities we track.

The figures below it deserve a close read. Its homicide rate is 0.8 per 100,000 and its robbery rate 1.2 per 100,000, both roughly at or below the median for the cities we track. Each covers the wider state rather than the city, and we calculated both from counts and populations, so take them as area-level upper bounds. All four governments we track, the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, hold Japan at their lowest advisory level, with no disagreement. The advisories still flag pickpocketing and scams for visitors. In a national survey, 81.7% of people said they feel safe walking alone at night.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern

Violent crime2

Robbery & theft0

Travel advisory0

The radar shows the three sourced, comparable risk measures (homicide, robbery, the strictest travel-advisory level). Tourist petty-crime signals are a different kind of measure — how often advisories mention them — so they are shown as rows under Tourist-specific incidents, not as radar axes.

Homicide / general violence

Intentional homicides (per 100,000)

0.8/100k

Figure is for Aichi (prefecture) (state / province), wider than Nagoya itself.

Rate computed by project-atlas: 58 (count, 2024) ÷ 7542415 population (Statistics Bureau of Japan — 2020 Population Census (令和2年国勢調査), 2020) × 100k.

Primary source: 警察庁 (National Police Agency, Japan) — 犯罪統計 / Criminal Statistics (annual confirmed values)

Where this sits on the scaleLow

01·3·8·20·40 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 73% of tracked cities

0.8/100k

0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)

1.2/100k

Figure is for Aichi (prefecture) (state / province), wider than Nagoya itself.

Rate computed by project-atlas: 93 (count, 2024) ÷ 7542415 population (Statistics Bureau of Japan — 2020 Population Census (令和2年国勢調査), 2020) × 100k.

Primary source: 警察庁 (National Police Agency, Japan) — 犯罪統計 / Criminal Statistics (annual confirmed values)

Where this sits on the scaleLow

040·120·250·400·600 /100k

Among tracked citiessafer than 97% of tracked cities

1.2/100k

0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department

U.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: U.S. Department of State — Japan Travel Advisory

Global Affairs Canada

Global Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Japan Travel Advice and Advisories

UK FCDO

UK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — Japan travel advice

Smartraveller (Australia)

Smartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — Japan travel advice

Perceived safety

How safe people say they feel, from official population surveys — a separate signal, not part of the Safety Index.

Feel safe walking alone at night

National survey

81.7%feel safe

81.7% of people surveyed · Japan · 2024

Survey figure is for Japan (country), wider than Nagoya itself.

Primary source: UN SDG 16.1.4 — feel safe walking alone at night (UNODC)

Tourist-specific incidents

How often government travel advisories mention each — a source-consensus signal, not a risk rate.

Pickpocketing & petty theft in travel advisories

2 of 3 advisories mention this

project-atlas count: 2 of 3 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Japan travel advice (Safety and security)

Scams & fraud in travel advisories

3 of 3 advisories mention this

project-atlas count: 3 of 3 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Japan travel advice (Safety and security)