City Travel Stats

Tokyo

Japan · Asia

100Safety indexLower concern
1US flagU.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions
5/5metric categories covered
Open comparison
35.69°, 139.69°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Tokyo scores a full 100 out of 100 in our composite index, placing it in the safest tier of the 192 cities we score.

The underlying figures are worth reading with care. The homicide rate is 0.7 per 100,000, about 0.4 times the median of the cities we track, but it is reported for the wider prefecture rather than the city, and we derived it from a raw count and a population, so treat it as an upper bound. Recorded robbery is 2 per 100,000, also a prefecture-level figure calculated the same way. The US, Canada, UK, and Australia all keep Japan at their lowest advisory level, with no disagreement. Those advisories still note pickpocketing and scams that can target visitors. In a national survey, 81.7% of residents said they feel safe walking alone at night, a result that covers the whole country rather than Tokyo alone.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime1
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)
0.7/100k
Figure is for Tokyo (prefecture) (state / province), wider than Tokyo itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 96 (count, 2024) ÷ 14047594 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 79% of tracked cities
0.7/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
2/100k
Figure is for Tokyo (prefecture) (state / province), wider than Tokyo itself.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 276 (count, 2024) ÷ 14047594 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 94% of tracked cities
2/100k
0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department
1US flagU.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions

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

Global Affairs Canada
1CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

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

UK FCDO
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — Japan travel advice

Smartraveller (Australia)
1AU flagSmartraveller (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 Tokyo 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)