The Safest Cities in Asia 2026 — Ranked by Real Safety Data

Key findings — free to cite

Yokohama, Japan is the safest on this ranking for 2026, scoring 95/100 — against a set average of 78.6 across 147 cities.

Yokohama leads the field at 95/100.
Scale is no barrier. Tokyo (9.7m people) still makes the top 15, scoring 94/100.
The average across all 147 qualifying cities is 78.6/100, so anything in the mid-80s and up is genuinely exceptional.
Ranked on Kakapo's safety score, built from national travel advisories from seven governments plus crime, transport and healthcare data.

The ranking

Ranked by Kakapo's overall safety score. Asia spans the full range — Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea sit at the global top, while the continent's mean is pulled down by South and Central Asia.

#	City	Safety score	Overall
1	Yokohama, Japan	95	95
2	Sapporo, Japan	95	95
3	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	95	95
4	Fukuoka, Japan	95	95
5	Kyoto, Japan	95	95
6	Hiroshima, Japan	95	95
7	Tokyo, Japan	94	94
8	Taipei, Taiwan	94	94
9	Nagoya, Japan	94	94
10	Kobe, Japan	94	94
11	Hamamatsu, Japan	94	94
12	Sagamihara, Japan	94	94
13	Shizuoka, Japan	94	94
14	Singapore, Singapore	93	93
15	Osaka, Japan	93	93

A score is a comparison, not a verdict. These are model estimates that let you rank cities like-for-like — not incident counts. A high-ranked city can still have a bad night, and a lower-ranked one can be perfectly enjoyable with the right habits.

And the other end of the table

For contrast, these are the lowest-scoring cities in the same pool on this metric — useful for calibrating what a given score actually means.

#	City	Safety score	Overall
143	Ibb, Yemen	33	33
144	Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic	31	31
145	Sadr City, Iraq	31	31
146	Aden, Yemen	29	29
147	Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic	20	20

How we measured it

We queried the live Kakapo index for every city above 500,000 residents in scope, deduplicated by city (keeping the largest-population entity), and ranked them by safety score. The pool is every Asian city over 500,000 residents with a live Kakapo score. Scores draw on national travel advisories from seven governments plus crime, transport and healthcare data; full weighting is at https://kakapo.travel/about/methodology. Scores are comparative model estimates, updated continuously, not incident counts — this page reads them live, so the numbers match the rest of the site.

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Kakapo Editorial Team (2026). Safest Cities in Asia 2026. Kakapo. https://kakapo.travel/blog/safest-cities-asia-2026

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