Yawata Crossing was the second largest city on the planet Sphinx with a population of over 1.5 million. The Yawata Crossing Times was headquartered there, as was the Yawata Crossing Dispatch. (HH4, HHA1.1: ABF, HH10) Around 1518 PD, it served as the temporary planetary capital due to the population loss of the old capital because of the plague. At this time, it had a population of about thirty thousand. (Tech Bu9)