Business Market
Kansai Region
After the Tokyo metropolitan region, Kansai is the next key liaison between Japan and the world.
Along with Kobe, it includes Kyoto, Osaka and other cities, making the Kansai region alone an extremely large market. Moreover, its central location gives it excellent access to other regions in Japan. In addition, due to its concentration of outstanding universities and research institutions, cooperation between industry and academia is flourishing in this region, enabling it to produce many Nobel Prize laureates. With numerous international conference centers, Kansai is one of the leading regions in Asia to host international conferences.
The Kansai region is located in the center of Japan, and it has an extremely large market with a GRP of around 719.6 billion dollars and a population of 21.57 million people. On the economic scale, it is comparable on an economic scale to Netherland (which ranks in 18th place across the world).
（INVEST JAPAN, INVEST KANSAI, 2019, Kansai Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry）
| Kansai | Domestic share | |
|---|---|---|
| Area（2018） | 31,542㎢ | 8.3％ |
| Population（2018） | 21,566,000 | 16.9％ |
| ＧＲＰ，ＧＤＰ（2015） | 719.6billion | 15.8％ |
Cost Performance
Compared to Tokyo, office rental rates are relatively low in the Kansai region, and the cost performance in Kobe is particularly good.
(CBRE: MARKET VIEW Japan Office, Q4 2019)