A prefectural capital is a city where a prefectural government and assembly is located.
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In Japan, a prefectural capital is officially called todōfukenchō shozaichi (都道府県庁所在地, "seat of a prefectural government", singular: 都庁所在地,tochō shozaichi in the [Tōkyō]-to, 道庁所在地, dōchō shozaichi in the [Hokkai]-dō, 府庁所在地, fuchō shozaichi in -fu, 県庁所在地, kenchō shozaichi in -ken), but the term kento (県都, "prefectural capital") is also used (dōto (道都, in the -dō, but never "futo" or "toto")).
List of Japanese prefectural capitals
| Capital | Prefecture |  Region |
Island | Pop.¹ | ISO | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Akita
|
 Akita
|
Tōhoku | Honshū | 327,651 | JP-05 | Core city |
 Aomori
|
 Aomori
|
Tōhoku | Honshū | 304,657 | JP-02 | Core city |
 Chiba
|
 Chiba
|
Kantō | Honshū | 943,568 | JP-12 | Designated city |
 Fukui
|
 Fukui
|
Chūbu | Honshū | 268,210 | JP-18 | Core city |
 Fukuoka
|
 Fukuoka
|
Kyūshū | Kyūshū | 1,434,650 | JP-40 | Designated city |
 Fukushima
|
 Fukushima
|
Tōhoku | Honshū | 288,602 | JP-07 | Core city |
 Gifu
|
 Gifu
|
Chūbu | Honshū | 411,753 | JP-21 | Core city |
 Hiroshima
|
 Hiroshima
|
Chūgoku | Honshū | 1,164,885 | JP-34 | Designated city |
 Kagoshima
|
 Kagoshima
|
Kyūshū | Kyūshū | 604,268 | JP-46 | Core city |
 Kanazawa
|
 Ishikawa
|
Chūbu | Honshū | 455,952 | JP-17 | Core city |
 Kōbe
|
 Hyōgo
|
Kansai | Honshū | 1,532,305 | JP-28 | Designated city |
 Kōchi
|
 Kōchi
|
Shikoku | Shikoku | 345,418 | JP-39 | Core city |
 Kōfu
|
 Yamanashi
|
Chūbu | Honshū | 198,757 | JP-19 | Core city |
 Kumamoto
|
 Kumamoto
|
Kyūshū | Kyūshū | 670,014 | JP-43 | Designated city |
 Kyōto
|
 Kyōto
|
Kansai | Honshū | 1,468,065 | JP-26 | Designated city |
 Maebashi
|
 Gunma
|
Kantō | Honshū | 317,167 | JP-10 | Core city |
 Matsue
|
 Shimane
|
Chūgoku | Honshū | 195,008 | JP-32 | Core city |
 Matsuyama
|
 Ehime
|
Shikoku | Shikoku | 514,771 | JP-38 | Core city |
 Mito
|
 Ibaraki
|
Kantō | Honshū | 263,299 | JP-08 | Core city |
 Miyazaki
|
 Miyazaki
|
Kyūshū | Kyūshū | 368,984 | JP-45 | Core city |
 Morioka
|
 Iwate
|
Tōhoku | Honshū | 298,959 | JP-03 | Core city |
 Nagano
|
 Nagano
|
Chūbu | Honshū | 377,328 | JP-20 | Core city |
 Nagasaki
|
 Nagasaki
|
Kyūshū | Kyūshū | 446,551 | JP-42 | Core city |
 Nagoya
|
 Aichi
|
Chūbu | Honshū | 2,243,564 | JP-23 | Designated city |
 Naha
|
 Okinawa
|
Kyūshū | Ryūkyū Islands | 313,436 | JP-47 | Core city |
 Nara
|
 Nara
|
Kansai | Honshū | 366,863 | JP-29 | Core city |
 Niigata
|
 Niigata
|
Chūbu | Honshū | 811,613 | JP-15 | Designated city |
 Ōita
|
 Ōita
|
Kyūshū | Kyūshū | 467,617 | JP-44 | Core city |
 Okayama
|
 Okayama
|
Chūgoku | Honshū | 700,646 | JP-33 | Designated city |
 Ōsaka
|
 Ōsaka
|
Kansai | Honshū | 2,649,601 | JP-27 | Designated city |
 Ōtsu
|
 Shiga
|
Kansai | Honshū | 330,044 | JP-25 | Core city |
 Saga
|
 Saga
|
Kyūshū | Kyūshū | 239,003 | JP-41 | Special city |
 Saitama
|
 Saitama
|
Kantō | Honshū | 1,197,471 | JP-11 | Designated city |
 Sapporo
|
 Hokkaidō
|
Hokkaidō | Hokkaidō | 1,896,704 | JP-01 | Designated city |
 Sendai
|
 Miyagi
|
Tōhoku | Honshū | 1,029,576 | JP-04 | Designated city |
 Shinjuku[1]
|
 Tōkyō
|
Kantō | Honshū | 314,262 | JP-13 | Special wards |
 Shizuoka
|
 Shizuoka
|
Chūbu | Honshū | 709,888 | JP-22 | Designated city |
 Takamatsu
|
 Kagawa
|
Shikoku | Shikoku | 417,671 | JP-37 | Core city |
 Tokushima
|
 Tokushima
|
Shikoku | Shikoku | 265,248 | JP-36 | City |
 Tottori
|
 Tottori
|
Chūgoku | Honshū | 199,319 | JP-31 | Core city |
 Toyama
|
 Toyama
|
Chūbu | Honshū | 420,584 | JP-16 | Core city |
 Tsu
|
 Mie
|
Kansai | Honshū | 287,849 | JP-24 | City |
 Utsunomiya
|
 Tochigi
|
Kantō | Honshū | 508,114 | JP-09 | Core city |
 Wakayama
|
 Wakayama
|
Kansai | Honshū | 371,504 | JP-30 | Core city |
 Yamagata
|
 Yamagata
|
Tōhoku | Honshū | 254,724 | JP-06 | Core city |
 Yamaguchi
|
 Yamaguchi
|
Chūgoku | Honshū | 191,714 | JP-35 | City |
 Yokohama
|
 Kanagawa
|
Kantō | Honshū | 3,643,641 | JP-14 | Designated city |
Notes: ¹ As of 1 May 2008[update]
In most cases, a city that shares a name with its prefecture is a prefectural capital. However, there are some municipalities that are not capitals.
- Iwate, Iwate Prefecture
- Ibaraki, Ibaraki Prefecture
- Okinawa, Okinawa Prefecture
- Tochigi, Tochigi Prefecture
- Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefecture
Capitals that are not the largest city/metropolitan area in their prefecture
Those in italics are prefectural capitals, or metropolitan areas of them.
| 1. |  Iwaki |
348,322 | 1. | Kōriyama Metropolitan Area | 537,493 |
| 2. |  Kōriyama |
338,887 | 2. | Fukushima Metropolitan Area | 412,353 |
| 3. | Fukushima |
294,724 | 3. | Iwaki Metropolitan Area | 365,864 |
| 1. |  Takasaki |
342,662 | 1. | Takasaki Metropolitan Area | 532,271 |
| 2. | Maebashi |
317,114 | 2. | Maebashi Metropolitan Area | 458,996 |
| 1. |  Yokkaichi |
307,418 | 1. | Yokkaichi Metropolitan Area | 606,071 |
| 2. | Tsu |
288,874 | 2. | Tsu Metropolitan Area | 308,375 |
| 1. |  Hamamatsu |
812,692 | 1. | Shizuoka Metropolitan Area | 999,360 |
| 2. | Shizuoka |
709,772 | 2. | Hamamatsu Metropolitan Area | 919,933 |
| 1. | Tottori |
199,263 | 1. | Yonago Metropolitan Area | 252,387 |
| 2. |  Yonago |
148,234 | 2. | Tottori Metropolitan Area | 249,067 |
| 1. |  Shimonoseki |
284,693 | 1. | Shimonoseki Metropolitan Area | 287,935 |
| 2. | Yamaguchi |
191,740 | 2. | Ube Metropolitan Area | 258,180 |
| 3. |  Ube |
175,334 | 3. | Yamaguchi Metropolitan Area | 178,402 |
Notes:
- City populations are as of July 2008.
- Metropolitan area populations are as of 2000. (Urban Employment Areas)
References
- ^ 都庁の所在地 Archived 2014-04-19 at the Wayback Machine Shinjuku is the location of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, Tokyo not having itself been a "municipality" since 1943.
This page was last edited on 28 July 2022, at 05:05