How Many Churches Are in Japan?

The short answer

The Living Bread maps 332 Christian churches in Japan in its open, verifiable directory. This is a growing sample from open data, not a national total, so the real number is far higher.

Japan in context

123.8 millionpopulation

1.1%Christian (Agency for Cultural Affairs, 2025)

1.4 millionChristians (approx.)

332churches we map

The churches of Japan are a small Protestant and Roman Catholic minority.

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Browse the 332 churches we map, by city, with denomination and location where the open data records it.

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Population from Wikidata; Christian share from Agency for Cultural Affairs (2025); church directory from OpenStreetMap, (c) OpenStreetMap contributors. A growing directory, not a national census. We never invent totals.