List of German-Japanese city and community partnerships

This is a still incomplete list of town and municipality partnerships between Germany and Japan . A list of partnerships between other local authorities from both countries is attached.

German community	state	Japanese community	prefecture	since	Art
augsburg	Bavaria	Amagasaki	Hyogo	1959	Sister city
augsburg	Bavaria	Nagahama	Shiga	1959	Sister city
Bad Krozingen	Baden-Württemberg	Taketa	Ōita	1989	City friendship
Bad Mergentheim	Baden-Württemberg	Fuefuki	Yamanashi	1991	City friendship
Bad Säckingen	Baden-Württemberg	Nagai	Yamagata	1983	Sister city
Bad Soden am Taunus	Hesse	Yōrō	Gifu	2004	City friendship
Bamberg	Bavaria	Nagaoka	Niigata	1995	City friendship
Bietigheim-Bissingen	Baden-Württemberg	Kusatsu	Gunma	1962	Sister city
Boppard	Rhineland-Palatinate	Ōme	Tokyo	1965	Sister city
Bürstadt	Hesse	Minano	Saitama	1984	City friendship
Dietzhölztal	Hesse	Shimotsuke	Tochigi	1975	Sister city
Donaueschingen	Baden-Württemberg	Kaminoyama	Yamagata	1995	City friendship
Frankfurt am Main	Hesse	Yokohama	Kanagawa	2011	Town twinning
Freiburg in Breisgau	Baden-Württemberg	Matsuyama	Ehime	1988	Sister city
Friedrichshafen	Baden-Württemberg	Tsuchiura	Ibaraki	1994	City friendship
Feet	Bavaria	Numata	Gunma	1995	Sister city
Hamburg	Hamburg	Osaka	Osaka	1989	City friendship
Hanau	Hesse	Tottori	Tottori	2001	Sister city
Hanover	Lower Saxony	Hiroshima	Hiroshima	1983	Sister city
Heidelberg	Baden-Württemberg	Kumamoto	Kumamoto	1992	Sister city
Kaiserslautern	Rhineland-Palatinate	Bunkyō	Tokyo	1988	Sister city
Cologne	North Rhine-Westphalia	Kyoto	Kyoto	1963	Sister city
Leinefelde-Worbis	Thuringia	Kanegasaki	Iwate	2002	Sister city
Linden trees	Hesse	Warabi	Saitama	1976	City friendship
Lübeck	Schleswig-Holstein	Kawasaki	Kanagawa	1992	Sister city
Luebz	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Hita	Ōita	2003	Sister city
Luebz	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Oyama	Tochigi	2003	Twin town
Luneburg	Lower Saxony	Naruto	Tokushima	1974	Sister city
Mainburg	Bavaria	Moriya	Ibaraki	1990	Sister city
Meerbusch	North Rhine-Westphalia	Shijonawate	Osaka	2010	City friendship
Meissen	Saxony	Arita	saga	1979	Sister city
Messkirch	Baden-Württemberg	Kahoku	Ishikawa	2004	Sister city
Munich	Bavaria	Sapporo	Hokkaidō	1972	Sister city
Neuruppin	Brandenburg	Niiza	Saitama	2003	Sister city
Neustadt an der Aisch	Bavaria	Hino	Shiga	1997	City friendship
Oberwiesenthal	Saxony	Hakuba	Nagano	2002	City friendship
Offenbach am Main	Hesse	Kawagoe	Saitama	1983	Sister city
Passau	Bavaria	Akita	Akita	1984	Sister city
Raunheim	Hesse	Hakusan	Ishikawa	1997	City friendship
Rosenheim	Bavaria	Ichikawa	Chiba	2004	Town twinning
Rothenburg ob der Tauber	Bavaria	Uchiko	Ehime	2001	City friendship
Sankt Goarshausen	Rhineland-Palatinate	Inuyama	Aichi	1992	City friendship
Same	Bavaria	Mizunami	Gifu	1966
Stuttgart	Baden-Württemberg	Ōgaki	Gifu	1988	City friendship
trier	Rhineland-Palatinate	Nagaoka	Niigata	1995	Sister city
Ühlingen-Birkendorf	Baden-Württemberg	Hagi	Yamaguchi	1992	Sister city
Wallhausen	Rhineland-Palatinate	Akaiwa	Okayama	1995	City friendship
Goods (Müritz)	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Rokkasho	Aomori	1994	City friendship
Wasserburg am Inn	Bavaria	Betsukai	Hokkaidō	1979	Sister city
Winsen (Luhe)	Lower Saxony	Fukui	Fukui
Wolfratshausen	Bavaria	Iruma	Saitama	1987	Sister city
Wolfsburg	Lower Saxony	Toyohashi	Aichi	2011	City friendship
Wurzburg	Bavaria	Ōtsu	Shiga	1979	Sister city
Time	Saxony-Anhalt	Tosu	saga	2012	City friendship

Partnerships with the participation of countries, prefectures, counties or municipalities

German partner	Japanese partner
Brandenburg	Saitama
Düsseldorf ( North Rhine-Westphalia )	Chiba
Berlin	Tokyo
Mitte district ( Berlin )	[city-equivalent "special -"] Shinjuku district ( Tokyo )
Baden-Württemberg	Kanagawa
District of Harburg & City of Winsen ( Lower Saxony )	Fukui
Mitte district ( Berlin )	Higashi Osaka ( Osaka )
Mitte district ( Berlin )	Tsuwano City ( Shimane )
Lower Saxony	Tokushima

See also

• Parish partnership
• German-Japanese relations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba} 自治 体 間 交流 姉妹 （友好） 提携 情報 姉妹 提携 デ ー タ ド イ ツ . In: CLAIR （ク レ ア） 一般 財 団 法人 自治 体 国際 化 協会 . Retrieved March 26, 2019 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ City of Augsburg: Augsburg's twin cities ( memento of the original from August 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} German-Japanese relations. Consulate General of Japan in Frankfurt am Main, accessed July 6, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Yokohama. City of Frankfurt am Main, accessed on July 6, 2016 . 
5. ^ History of friendship between cities FN Tsuchiura. (No longer available online.) City of Friedrichshafen, archived from the original on July 6, 2016 ; Retrieved July 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Osaka on Hamburg.de.Retrieved on August 5, 2020
7. ^ City of Cologne: Kyoto - Japan
8. ↑ Entry about the twin cities on the homepage of the city of Lübz.Retrieved on April 1, 2019, 5:20 pm
9. ↑ City of Meerbusch, December 13, 2010: City partnership with Shijonawate (Japan) officially sealed ( memento of the original from June 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ town twinning. City of Neustadt an der Aisch, accessed on July 6, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Bettina Dzemaili: Ichikawa. City of Rosenheim, June 30, 2016, accessed on July 6, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Ogaki. City of Stuttgart, accessed on July 6, 2016 . 
13. ↑ twinning with Nagaoka on Trier.de Retrieved on August 5, 2020
14. ↑ https://www.winsen.de/buergerservice-information/ueber-winsen/partnerstaedte/ Entry about the partner cities on the homepage of the city of Winsen (Luhe) Retrieved on April 24, 2019, 10:10 am
15. ^ City of Wolfsburg - town twinning. City of Wolfsburg, accessed on July 6, 2016 . 
16. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Local Government International Exchange> Sister city information Database> Sister city relationships in Japan - Details> Germany. CLAIR, accessed on August 13, 2019 .  [Translation of the first-mentioned itemization]
17. ↑ Sponsorships and partnerships. Harburg district, accessed on August 13, 2019 .