Japantown is a common name for official Japanese communities in big cities outsie Japan. Alternatively, a Japantown may be called J-town, Little Tokyo, and Nihonmachi (日本町 or 日本街), the latter two being common names of Los Angeles and San Francisco's Japantown, respectively. In the Philippines, concentrations of Japanese and Japanese Filipinos in big cities are called Japantown, or Little Japan.