This paper deals with a questionnaire to urban sections of municipalities in Japan which have GIS. This study aims to make clear the condition of GIS for urban planning in municipalities, and to offer some suggestions to promote the introduction of GIS to the urban section of municipalities. The result shows that there are some aims of using GIS for urban planning section, and it is necessary for realizing advanced use of GIS in urban planning field to develop the GIS which is easi-er for operating and to rearrange city information properly from point of urban planning view.
