Nagoya (カ Nagoya-shi?) is the largest city in the Ch?bu region of Japan. It is the third-largest incorporated city and the fourth most populous urban area in Japan. Located on the Pacific coast on central Honshu, it is the capital of Aichi Prefecture and is one of Japan's major ports along with those of Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Chiba, and Kitakyushu. It is also the center of Japan's third largest metropolitan region, known as the Ch?ky? Metropolitan Area. As of 2000, Ch?ky? Metropolitan Area has 8.74 million people, of which 2.27 million live in the city of Nagoya.