List of capitals in Japan

A prefectural capital is a city where a prefectural government and assembly is located.

Japan

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

Notes: ¹ As of 1 May 2008^[update]

Non-capitals which share a name with their prefecture

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.

 Fukushima Prefecture

 Gunma Prefecture

 Mie Prefecture

 Shizuoka Prefecture

 Tottori Prefecture

 Yamaguchi Prefecture

Notes:

City populations are as of July 2008.

Metropolitan area populations are as of 2000. (Urban Employment Areas)

References

1. 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.