Living in Tanabe

In Tanabe (Wakayama Prefecture), rents across existing tenancies average €4.90 per m² a month (2023).

Tanabe had an unemployment rate of 4.33% at the end of 2020.

Last checked 2026-09-2425 sources

Population69,870people1 Oct 2020Official source · Japan 2020 Census municipality population table

Median gross salary (region)258.7EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Average net rent4.9EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.27 — 22% belowOfficial source · www.e-stat.go.jp

Unemployment rate4.33%country median 3.8% — 15% aboveOfficial source · 総務省統計局 (e-Stat, 国勢調査2020 就業状態等基本集計第1-2表)

Recorded crime448.4incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2025Regional figureOfficial source · 令和７年の犯罪情勢 / 令和７年の犯罪情勢統計表, 図表1-5-2

PM2.5, annual mean7.1µg/m³country median 8.4 — 15% belowOfficial source · MOE Japan Air Pollution Monitoring Report FY2023 — 田辺市

Cheaper rent than 77% of Japanese cities that publish it, higher unemployment than 75% of Japanese cities that publish it and cleaner air than 82% of Japanese cities that publish it.

Which Japan-wide rules apply when you move to Tanabe?

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

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Housing and cost

Japan's Housing and Land Survey monthly-rent measure excludes security deposits, key money/right money and common-area charges. The Ministry of Land says deposit terms vary by regional custom; these sources provide context, not a comparable city-level distribution. Statistics Bureau glossary (2018) · MLIT rental-housing Q&A.

How much does it cost to rent in Tanabe?

Average net cold rent is about 4.9 EUR/m² per month (2023 Housing and Land Survey), excluding heating and operating charges.

Published average over existing tenancies; a specific flat can sit either side of it. Asking-rent series, where present, are separate rows in the table.

Average net rent (nettokalt): 4.9 EUR/m²/month · www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁴

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€32

Mobile plan, 10 GB€22

Net rent across major citiesTanabe highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Kawasaki€13.36

Yokohama€11.97

Osaka€10.65

Kyoto€10.46

Sapporo€7.56

Tanabe€4.90

Show the other 6 cities

Saitama€10.37

Fukuoka€9.00

Kobe€8.87

Sendai€8.85

Nagoya€8.81

Hiroshima€8.38

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	31.61 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	ドコモ光月額料金 — NTTドコモ¹⁶Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	21.56 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	docomo mini 10GB²Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	4.9 EUR/m²/monthcountry median €6.27	31 Dec 2023	www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁴Official
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	261.3 EUR/month	31 Oct 2023	Housing and Land Survey 2023, Table 112-3-2: Monthly Rent of Dwelling by Type of Dwelling — Japan, prefecture, shi, ku, machi and mura⁵Official

Is Tanabe a good place to live?

There is no universal answer. The profile scores below show who the available published evidence may suit; they are a decision aid, not a personal recommendation.

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Remote worker58%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 49–67%

Skilled employee67%strong on work, weak on safety · range 59–75%

Student68%strong on education, weak on work · range 60–76%

Family70%strong on family, weak on legal route · range 61–79%

Retirement62%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 52–72%

Worked out from these numbers

What does a 60 m² flat cost?

About 294 EUR a month in cold rent at the published average of about 4.9 EUR/m² per month, before heating and operating charges.

Heating, water and operating charges come on top, and a specific flat can sit either side of an average.

Source period: 2023 Housing and Land Survey

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Tanabe?

The unemployment rate is about 4.3 % (October 2020).

Unemployment rate: 4.33 % · 総務省統計局 (e-Stat, 国勢調査2020 就業状態等基本集計第1-2表)¹⁹

Unemployment across cities in JapanUnemployment in Tanabe is 4.3%. Of 1,816 cities with data, 818 have unemployment of 3 to under 4%.

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Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median gross salary (regional)	258.7 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	www.e-stat.go.jp¹⁵Official
Unemployment rate	4.33 %country median 3.8%	31 Dec 2020	総務省統計局 (e-Stat, 国勢調査2020 就業状態等基本集計第1-2表)¹⁹Official

What does a salary buy in Tanabe?

Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.

Left over each month€0of €0 take-home

Rent
Internet
Mobile

Line-by-line breakdown and sources

Each month	€
Take-home payOECD Taxing Wages 2025, single, no children. Includes central and local income tax and employee social contributions; euro amounts at the ECB average for 2026-08.	outside the model's range
Rent, 60 m²€4.90/m² · official · e-stat.go.jp · 2023-12-31	− €294
Internet€32 · official · ドコモ光月額料金 · 2026-09-30	− €32
Mobile plan€22 · official · docomo mini 10GB · 2026-09-30	− €22
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities	—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish	—

Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Tanabe Salary needed to live in Tanabe

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Tanabe. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.

Country-level information

Hello Work — Public employment service

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan

Job Search

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Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Tanabe. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Family and education

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Schools	52 schools	1 May 2024	MEXT School Basic Survey 2024 municipality table 000040231127⁹Official

Healthcare

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Hospital beds per 1,000 residents	15.71 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁷Official
Physicians per 1,000 residents	3.39 per 1,000	31 Dec 2024	Japan official municipality health statistics 2024⁸Official
Physicians per 100,000 residents	350 per 100,000	2022	Exact e-Stat municipality row I6100 (医師数), derived with the exact same-JIS e-Stat A2301 total resident population row. No prefecture or parent-area value is used.⁴Official

Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Tanabe when the national insurance or residence conditions are met.

Healthcare access follows the country-wide insurance rules; local capacity facts remain city data and are not used as proof of eligibility.

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Physicians per 1,000 residents3.39 per 1,000Verified 2026-08-31

Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

Safety

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	448.4 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2025	令和７年の犯罪情勢 / 令和７年の犯罪情勢統計表, 図表1-5-2¹⁷Official · regional context

Mobility and administration

Tanabe's nearest airport was SHM, 8 km away and offered 1 direct destinations.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Direct destinations from the nearest major airport	1 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹¹Official
Destinations from nearest airport	34 count	2024	Unique direct scheduled destination endpoints for the nearest scheduled-service airport in the complete 97-airport MLIT universe; domestic endpoints come from the official 2024 annual route table and international endpoints from the official 2024 summer and winter direct scheduled-flight tables.¹³Official
Distance to the nearest major airport	8 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹²Official
Nearest major airport (IATA code)	SHM	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹²Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Tanabe. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

Country-level information

Japanese Language Education Program for Foreigners Living in Japan — State Language Course

Agency for Cultural Affairs

For foreigners living in Japan.

JapaneseIn Person, Online

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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Tanabe.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Tanabe?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 7.1 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: MOE Japan Air Pollution Monitoring Report FY2023 — 田辺市¹⁰

Annual mean at the measuring site(s) serving the city; current-day readings differ.

Air quality vs health guidelinesAnnual means against WHO 2021 guidelines and EU legal limits

Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³

PM2.57.1WHO 5 · EU 25

City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.

PM2.5 across cities in JapanAnnual PM2.5 in Tanabe is 7.1 µg/m³. Of 804 cities with data, 209 have annual PM2.5 of 8 to under 9 µg/m³.

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Tanabe 7.1

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	7.1 µg/m³country median 8.4	31 Mar 2024	MOE Japan Air Pollution Monitoring Report FY2023 — 田辺市¹⁰Official

Population and city profile

The population density of Tanabe stood at 68 people per km² at the end of 2020.

How many people live in Tanabe?

The published population was 69,870 people in October 2020. Source: Japan 2020 Census municipality population table⁶

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport99.2%

Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	1,027 km²	3 Aug 2026	国土地理院 (Geospatial Information Authority of Japan)¹⁸Official
Foreign-resident share	0.798 %	3 Aug 2026	総務省自治行政局 (住民基本台帳, 外国人住民 ÷ 総計)²⁰Official
Foreign residents	528 people	3 Aug 2026	総務省自治行政局 (住民基本台帳, 外国人住民)²⁰Official
Population density	68 people/km²	31 Dec 2020	総務省統計局 (e-Stat, 国勢調査2020 第1-1表)⁶Official
Population	69,870 people	1 Oct 2020	Japan 2020 Census municipality population table⁶Official

International community in Tanabe

Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.

Citizenship

Persons in the official 2020 Population Census Basic Complete Tabulation on Population and Households; sex-total population by source-native nationality category. · 2020

Published group	People	Share
Total	69,870	100.0%
Japanese	68,975	98.7%
Nationality not reported	643	0.9%
Foreigner	252	0.4%
Republic of the Philippines	81	0.1%
Republic of Korea	48	0.1%
People's Republic of China	42	0.1%
Others	29	0.0%
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam	20	0.0%
United States of America	13	0.0%
Republic of Indonesia	10	0.0%

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Published group	People	Share
Kingdom of Thailand	4	0.0%
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	3	0.0%
Federative Republic of Brazil	2	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source³

Additional context

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Median age	54.8 years	31 Dec 2026	2026 Resident Basic Register, population by age group by municipality (total residents)¹Official

Alternatives for people set on Tanabe

Three places for the three reasons people leave a city on the shortlist: stay in the region, stay in the country, or keep the budget and change the country. A percentage appears only where both cities publish that metric from the same source, period and grain. Distances are straight lines — travel times are not collected yet.

Minabe-cho as a Tanabe alternative in the same region

7 km away, better on 0 of 3 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

Residents: 11,818 Minabe-cho vs 69,870 Tanabe−83%
Median gross pay, region: €263 Minabe-cho vs €259 Tanabesame level
Recorded crime, per 100k: 448 Minabe-cho vs 448 Tanabesame level

Full comparison More about Minabe-cho

Yurihonjō as a Tanabe alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 755 km, better on 2 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 4.

Recorded crime, per 100k: 295 Yurihonjō vs 448 Tanabe−34%
Rent: €5.52/m² Yurihonjō vs €4.90/m² Tanabe+13%
Unemployment: 3.4% Yurihonjō vs 4.3% Tanabe−21%
Foreign residents: 0.5% Yurihonjō vs 0.8% Tanabe−33%
Median gross pay, region: €247 Yurihonjō vs €259 Tanabe−4%
Annual PM2.5: 7.5 µg/m³ Yurihonjō vs 7.1 µg/m³ Tanabe+6%

Full comparison More about Yurihonjō

Cities near Tanabe

Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Kamitonda-cho 5.9 km away

Rent: 6.04 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Shirahama-cho 6.2 km away

Rent: 6.17 EUR/m²/monthAverage net rent (nettokalt) · 2023-12-31

Alternative cities in Japan

Other cities in Japan to compare with Tanabe, nearest in population first.

All Japan cities

Eniwa70,159 residents Fukutsu69,535 residents Anan69,470 residents Minamiarupusu69,459 residents Yawata70,433 residents Tome70,486 residents

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Common questions

Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.

How many people live in Tanabe?

The published population was 69,870 people in October 2020. Source: Japan 2020 Census municipality population table.

How much does it cost to rent in Tanabe?

Average net cold rent is about 4.9 EUR/m² per month (2023 Housing and Land Survey), excluding heating and operating charges. For a 70 m² flat that is about 343 EUR a month before utilities. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

Is the air quality good in Tanabe?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 7.1 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: MOE Japan Air Pollution Monitoring Report FY2023 — 田辺市.

What is the unemployment rate in Tanabe?

The unemployment rate is about 4.3 % (October 2020). Source: 総務省統計局 (e-Stat, 国勢調査2020 就業状態等基本集計第1-2表).

What is the typical salary around Tanabe?

The median gross salary is 258.7 EUR/month. Source: www.e-stat.go.jp.

Is Tanabe a good place to live?

Tanabe may suit different people for different reasons. The page's profile scores compare published cost, work, housing, safety, healthcare and other available factors; they are a decision aid, not a universal recommendation.

Which cities are near Tanabe?

Kamitonda-cho, Shirahama-cho, Minabe-cho, Inami-cho (Wakayama) are near Tanabe. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people are in the Japanese citizenship group in Tanabe?

The official citizenship distribution records 68,975 people (98.7%) in the source-defined population for 2020. This is a citizenship measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Tanabe (Wakayama Prefecture), Japan: population, rent, jobs [ImmigrationDB compilation; version b0ccb87a4c86ccf66283c37e74170ee3]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/cities/jp/tanabe-43-1850706/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Tanabe (Wakayama Prefecture), Japan: population, rent, jobs},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {b0ccb87a4c86ccf66283c37e74170ee3},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/cities/jp/tanabe-43-1850706/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}

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