The aim of this paper is to consider land use planning in relation to realizing compact city.I investigate the data of 23 prefectural capital cities about population density, urban form, commercial distribution, and private car dependence from the point of view of compact city and point out comparatively compact cities in the 23 cities.In addition, the aspects of land use planning such as urbanization promotion area zoning, land use zoning, land readjustment project, and so on that have effects on molding compact city are investigated.After these investigation, I suggest some ideas about land use planning to realize compact city under the existing Japanese land use planning system.
