Kawakami

Japanese places

• Kawakami District, Hokkaidō, a district in Hokkaidō
• In Okayama Prefecture,
  • Kawakami, Okayama (Kawakami) was a town in the former Kawakami District
  • Kawakami, Okayama (Maniwa) was a village in Maniwa District
• Kawakami, Nagano, a village in Nagano Prefecture
• Kawakami, Nara, a village in Nara Prefecture
• Kawaue, Gifu, a former village in Gifu Prefecture that is now part of the city of Nakatsugawa, Gifu, was written the same way as Kawakami (川上村).

Japanese people

• Kawakami Gensai (1834–71), a famous samurai
• Hiromi Kawakami (born 1958), an author
• Juria Kawakami (born 1993), a singer
• Kawakami Kikuko (1904–1985), a novelist
• Kenji Kawakami (born 1946), the inventor of Chindōgu
• Kenshin Kawakami (born 1975), a Major League Baseball pitcher
• Kiyoshi Kawakami (nicknamed "Karl"; 1873–1949), a journalist and author
• Masashi Kawakami (born 1972), a boxer
• Otojirō Kawakami (1864–1911), an actor and theatrical manager
• Yasuhiro Kawakami, a video game composer