* Hokkaido: Sapporo, Otaru, Hakodate
* Honshu: Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Yokohama, Fukuoka
* Shikoku: Matsuyama, Takamatsu, Kochi
* Kyushu: Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Kagoshima
It's worth noting that Honshu is the largest and most populous of the four islands and has the most significant concentration of cities.