Japan map

47 prefectures, each one its own shape you can click. A conic projection centered on Japan, so the prefectures keep their shapes instead of leaning the way they do on a world map.

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Every prefecture on the Japan map

Boundaries from Natural Earth, public domain. You can use the outline for anything, including work you sell.

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  • Saga
  • Nagasaki

Chubu 9

  • Niigata
  • Toyama
  • Ishikawa
  • Fukui
  • Yamanashi
  • Nagano
  • Gifu
  • Shizuoka
  • Aichi

Chugoku 5

  • Tottori
  • Shimane
  • Okayama
  • Hiroshima
  • Yamaguchi

Hokkaido 1

  • Hokkaidō

Kanto 7

  • Ibaraki
  • Tochigi
  • Gunma
  • Saitama
  • Chiba
  • Tokyo
  • Kanagawa

Kinki 7

  • Mie
  • Shiga
  • Kyōto
  • Ōsaka
  • Hyōgo
  • Nara
  • Wakayama

Kyushu 5

  • Fukuoka
  • Kumamoto
  • Ōita
  • Miyazaki
  • Kagoshima

Okinawa 1

  • Okinawa

Shikoku 4

  • Tokushima
  • Kagawa
  • Ehime
  • Kōchi

Tohoku 6

  • Aomori
  • Iwate
  • Miyagi
  • Akita
  • Yamagata
  • Fukushima