Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kitakyushu is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. It is midway between Tokyo and Shanghai. Kitakyushu has a population of just under one million. Together with Shimonoseki on Honshū the city is the center of an area known as the Kitakyushu metropolitan area or Kanmon metropolitan area which has a total population of about 1.5 million. There are multiple metropolitan area definitions for this area, with population estimates ranging from 1.15 to 2.4 million people.