Abstract
The aim of this paper is (to clarify the definition and the actual situation of "Culture Halls". Especially this paper gives weight to the relation between thier condition in utilization and the classification of the municipalities where they are. We classified the municipalities with the population and the centrality of them. The results of this study are summarized as follow : 1. The total number of facilities that have "Culture Halls" is 1545 on March 1988 in Japan. 2. Those halls were used for 176.8 days, a year on a avarage in the fiscal year 1987. 3. The number of used days were depend on the population and the centrality of the municipalities.
