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Japan's 47 prefectures in kanji

Every prefecture's name as it's written in Japan, from 北海道 to 沖縄県. Read them, pick the reading, or find the kanji for a name: all 47, or one region at a time.

Can you read all 47 prefectures in kanji?

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Reading prefecture names

The four endings

Every name ends in the kind of prefecture it is. You can answer with the ending or without it: あおもりけん or あおもり, aomoriken or aomori. English spellings count too (Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo).

By region

Play one region at a time to learn them in groups:

Hokkaidō
北海道

The kanji in the names

75 kanji, each with its page (readings, meanings, stroke order):

北海道青森県岩手宮城秋田山形福島茨栃木群馬埼玉千葉東京都神奈川新潟富石井梨長野岐阜静岡愛知三重滋賀府大阪兵庫良和歌鳥取根広口徳香媛高佐崎熊本分鹿児沖縄

All 47 answers
The prefectures of Japan in kanji, with their readings
PrefectureReadingIn EnglishRegion
北海道ほっかいどうHokkaidoHokkaidō
青森県あおもりけんAomori PrefectureTōhoku
岩手県いわてけんIwate PrefectureTōhoku
宮城県みやぎけんMiyagi PrefectureTōhoku
秋田県あきたけんAkita PrefectureTōhoku
山形県やまがたけんYamagata PrefectureTōhoku
福島県ふくしまけんFukushima PrefectureTōhoku
茨城県いばらきけんIbaraki PrefectureKantō
栃木県とちぎけんTochigi PrefectureKantō
群馬県ぐんまけんGunma PrefectureKantō
埼玉県さいたまけんSaitama PrefectureKantō
千葉県ちばけんChiba PrefectureKantō
東京都とうきょうとTokyo MetropolisKantō
神奈川県かながわけんKanagawa PrefectureKantō
新潟県にいがたけんNiigata PrefectureChūbu
富山県とやまけんToyama PrefectureChūbu
石川県いしかわけんIshikawa PrefectureChūbu
福井県ふくいけんFukui PrefectureChūbu
山梨県やまなしけんYamanashi PrefectureChūbu
長野県ながのけんNagano PrefectureChūbu
岐阜県ぎふけんGifu PrefectureChūbu
静岡県しずおかけんShizuoka PrefectureChūbu
愛知県あいちけんAichi PrefectureChūbu
三重県みえけんMie PrefectureKansai
滋賀県しがけんShiga PrefectureKansai
京都府きょうとふKyoto PrefectureKansai
大阪府おおさかふOsaka PrefectureKansai
兵庫県ひょうごけんHyōgo PrefectureKansai
奈良県ならけんNara PrefectureKansai
和歌山県わかやまけんWakayama PrefectureKansai
鳥取県とっとりけんTottori PrefectureChūgoku
島根県しまねけんShimane PrefectureChūgoku
岡山県おかやまけんOkayama PrefectureChūgoku
広島県ひろしまけんHiroshima PrefectureChūgoku
山口県やまぐちけんYamaguchi PrefectureChūgoku
徳島県とくしまけんTokushima PrefectureShikoku
香川県かがわけんKagawa PrefectureShikoku
愛媛県えひめけんEhime PrefectureShikoku
高知県こうちけんKōchi PrefectureShikoku
福岡県ふくおかけんFukuoka PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
佐賀県さがけんSaga PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
長崎県ながさきけんNagasaki PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
熊本県くまもとけんKumamoto PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
大分県おおいたけんŌita PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
宮崎県みやざきけんMiyazaki PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
鹿児島県かごしまけんKagoshima PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa
沖縄県おきなわけんOkinawa PrefectureKyūshū & Okinawa

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