The Japan Startup Ecosystem is a regional Leader in innovation, ranked at number 21 globally, and shows a strong hold by 0 spots since 2020. Japan also ranks at number 3 for startups in East Asia.
There are 8 cities ranked in the top 1,000 in Japan and the top ranked city in Japan is Tokyo at 15 globally. Tokyo is followed by Kyoto at 124 and Osaka at 128. Japan is an ideal place to locate for Health, Fintech and Education startups. As the most popular industries in the country, there is a sample of 626 Health startups in Japan, 314 Fintech startups in Japan and 209 Education startups in Japan, on the StartupBlink Map. On the StartupBlink Global Startup Ecosystem Map there is a sample of 2052 startups in Japan, 35 accelerators in Japan, 59 coworking spaces in Japan, 38 organizations in Japan and 2 leaders in Japan.View top ecosystems:
Tokyo, Japan
Kyoto, Japan
Osaka, Japan
Fukuoka, Japan
Nagoya, Japan
2021 National Rank & Change | City | Global Rank & Change | Total Score | Quantity Score | Quality Score | Business Score |
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1st 0 | 15th + 1 | 21.792 | 2.50 | 16.00 | 3.30 | |
2nd + 2 | 124th + 127 | 4.630 | 0.29 | 1.19 | 3.15 | |
3rd - 1 | 128th + 54 | 4.564 | 0.13 | 1.13 | 3.30 | |
4th new | 240th new | 1.467 | 0.11 | 0.23 | 1.13 | |
5th - 2 | 246th - 38 | 1.404 | 0.07 | 0.26 | 1.08 | |
6th new | 697th new | 0.213 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.16 | |
7th - 2 | 768th - 102 | 0.184 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.14 | |
8th new | 909th new | 0.134 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.10 |