Tokyo Explorer

Japan is made up of forty seven ‘prefectures’ – areas with a degree of self governance similar to US or Australian states or British counties.

Covering every square inch of the landmass linking the extreme north of the main island of Hokkaido with the islands within sight of Taiwan in the south, Prefectural pride pervades many aspects of life; people, politics, food, history and local produce.

Each is unique in its own way, of interest for a plethora of reasons and well worth checking out.

For those with a specific interest in a given area, click away, and access the prefectures of your choice. Most pages are in Japanese but all contain English (and sometimes other) language(s) links / equivalents.

Prefectural Government homepages:

Aichi
Akita
Aomori
Chiba
Ehime
Fukui
Fukuoka
Fukushima
Gifu
Gunma
Hiroshima
Hyogo
Hokkaido
Ibaraki
Ishikawa
Iwate
Kagoshima
Kagawa
Kanagawa
Kochi
Kumamoto
Kyoto
Mie
Miyagi
Miyazaki
Nagano
Nagasaki
Nara
Niigata
Oita
Okayama
Okinawa
Osaka
Saga
Saitama
Shiga
Shimane
Shizuoka
Tochigi
Tokushima
Tokyo
Tottori
Toyama
Wakayama
Yamagata
Yamaguchi
Yamanashi