Japanese Prefectures

Can you name all 47 of Japan's prefectures?

Technically 43 prefectures or "ken", 2 "fu", 1 "to" and 1 "dō"

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First submitted	February 12, 2013
Times taken	137,246
Average score	55.3%
Rating	4.98

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Prefecture

Aichi

Akita

Aomori

Chiba

Ehime

Fukui

Fukuoka

Fukushima

Gifu

Gunma

Hiroshima

Hokkaido

Hyōgo

Ibaraki

Ishikawa

Iwate

Prefecture

Kagawa

Kagoshima

Kanagawa

Kōchi

Kumamoto

Kyoto

Mie

Miyagi

Miyazaki

Nagano

Nagasaki

Nara

Niigata

Ōita

Okayama

Okinawa

Prefecture

Osaka

Saga

Saitama

Shiga

Shimane

Shizuoka

Tochigi

Tokushima

Tokyo

Tottori

Toyama

Wakayama

Yamagata

Yamaguchi

Yamanashi

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41 Comments

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Level 70

Nov 1, 2014

+1 to the above comments!

+21

Level 70

Apr 25, 2015

Also, if this happens, as someone who knows Japanese, it'd be cool if when you typed in the answer, the name written in Kanji was shown.

1600+ how has this not gotten the star treatment?!

Level 70

Apr 28, 2015

I made a post in JetPunk's subreddit recommending it for the front page: http://www.reddit.com/r/JetPunk/comments/2trgoe/how_do_i_rec_a_quiz_for_the_front_page/cqqzc9z

Level 79

May 9, 2015

Good stuff, hopefully they will do it.

Level ∞

Sep 20, 2015

You wore me down @NZRugbyQuizzes. Map added!

Level 79

Sep 21, 2015

Thanks Quizmaster!

Level 48

Oct 11, 2015

Thanks for the map! Finally I can learn the locations aswell.+++

Level 62

Oct 16, 2015

yay map! thanks.

Level 79

Nov 4, 2015

Close to 400 takes since the map was in place. Justifies the quizmaster's inspired decision to make a map quiz!

Level 56

Nov 12, 2015

Thank you for adding the map, quizmaster! Otsukaresama!

Level 48

Dec 21, 2015

一発！

Level 81

Jan 3, 2016

This map scares me...

Level 43

Aug 6, 2016

Why?

Level 82

Feb 23, 2021

Why?

Level 37

Sep 13, 2021

Why?

Level 67

Jan 9, 2022

どうして？

Level 66

Jan 25, 2022

?yhW

Level 54

Mar 22, 2022

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Dec 22, 2023

Level 55

Jun 11, 2024

为什么

Level 64

Apr 8, 2025

なんで？

Level 79

Oct 22, 2016

New quiz. Top 10 prefectures in Japan by population.

http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/83115/10-most-populous-prefectures-of-japan

Level 57

Feb 7, 2017

I got zero because I gave up after one second. But it was a thrill ride, I tells ya.

Level 69

Mar 28, 2017

Time to finally learn all of those prefectures!

Level 79

Oct 3, 2017

For a slightly different version of this quiz where you choose the highlighted prefecture, please click Here

Level 79

Oct 28, 2017

And for the 1 minute sprint version

Level 79

Nov 20, 2017

Japanese Prefectures in Alphabetical Order

Level 74

Feb 10, 2018

Could Gumma be allowed for Gunma? There are many ways to transcribe Japanese after all.

Level 25

May 30, 2018

Fun quiz and great for learning the locations of the prefectures. Now when I hear a prefecture mentioned in the news or a drama/anime, I have an idea where it lies.

Level 90

Dec 30, 2018

I could have used maybe ONE more minute... there are lots of these!

Level 17

Mar 9, 2020

done in 1.04

Level 55

Jun 25, 2020

Can I use this map for a quiz please?

Level 64

May 19, 2023

Seconded

Level 34

Jan 31, 2023

I believe the Amani Islands are part of the Kagoshima prefecture instead of the Okinawa prefecture. However, I don't know how changing the titles of the path IDs would work for this map.

Level 35

Aug 19, 2023

Only got 9, quite embarrassing, but proud of Kochi and Aomori.

Level 28

Jun 15, 2024

easy :)

Level 20

Dec 2, 2024

ezpz, nice quiz tho.

Level 53

Jan 19, 2025

I was able to do them all with ease a few months ago, but now I forget Nagano every time for some reason. I've gotten 46/47 multiple times just cause I keep forgetting it haha.

Level 68

Mar 26, 2025

finally, after 10 continuous months of failing to name Toyama, I got it.

Level 64

Apr 8, 2025

took me 5 tries, 4 of them recent, but thanks to having gone over most of them in my current japanese class I GOT IT AT LAST

Level 76

Oct 26, 2025

Wow average score is 26!