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Every prefecture, city and town in Japan on one zoomable map, with its main highways, rivers and lakes. Switch on towns and prefectures above the map and zoom in for every name; tap a prefecture to see its population, area and largest towns.

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Printable maps of Japan

Free to print for class and home: Japan with its cities and towns, a map of its prefectures, and a blank outline map. PDFs fit one A4 or US Letter page.

Japan map with cities

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Japan prefectures map

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About Japan

Japan has 47 prefectures and about 126,146,099 people (2020) on 377,974 km² (145,937 sq mi). Tokyo is both the capital and the largest city, with 9,733,276 people.

Tokyo is the most populous prefecture (14,047,594 people) and Tottori the least (553,407); Hokkaido is the largest by area (83,422 km²) and Kagawa the smallest (1,876 km²).

Largest cities in Japan

The 25 most populous cities and towns. All 681 are on the map above: switch on Towns and zoom in to see them.

#CityPrefecturePopulation
1TokyoTokyo9,733,276
2YokohamaKanagawa3,777,491
3OsakaOsaka2,752,412
4NagoyaAichi2,332,176
5SapporoHokkaido1,973,395
6FukuokaFukuoka1,612,392
7KawasakiKanagawa1,538,262
8KobeHyogo1,525,152
9KyotoKyoto1,463,723
10SaitamaSaitama1,324,025
11HiroshimaHiroshima1,200,754
12SendaiMiyagi1,096,704
13ChibaChiba974,951
14KitakyushuFukuoka939,029
15SakaiOsaka826,161
16HamamatsuShizuoka790,718
17NiigataNiigata789,275
18KumamotoKumamoto738,865
19SagamiharaKanagawa725,493
20OkayamaOkayama724,691
21ShizuokaShizuoka693,389
22FunabashiChiba642,907
23KawaguchiSaitama594,274
24KagoshimaKagoshima593,128
25HachiojiTokyo579,355

Populations are from the 2020 Population Census (1 October 2020), counted in the municipalities of 1 January 2026 (the same ones, but for Hamamatsu's wards). Cities are the municipalities that are shi, of 30,000 people or more; Tokyo is the 23 special wards together, which are not a city but are the capital, and the seat of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (in Shinjuku).

Prefectures of Japan

All 47 prefectures. Select one to show it on the map.

Prefectures of Japan. Select a column heading to sort; select a name to show it on the map.
Nagoya7,542,4155,173
Akita959,50211,638
Aomori1,237,9849,645
Chiba6,284,4805,156
Matsuyama1,334,8415,676
Fukui766,8634,191
Fukuoka5,135,2144,987
Fukushima1,833,15213,783
Gifu1,978,74210,621
Maebashi1,939,1106,362
Hiroshima2,799,7028,478
Sapporo5,224,61483,422
Kobe5,465,0028,401
Mito2,867,0096,098
Kanazawa1,132,5264,191
Morioka1,210,53415,274
Takamatsu950,2441,876
Kagoshima1,588,2569,186
Yokohama9,237,3372,417
Kochi691,5277,102
Kumamoto1,738,3017,409
Kyoto2,578,0874,612
Tsu1,770,2545,774
Sendai2,301,9967,281
Miyazaki1,069,5767,734
Nagano2,048,01113,562
Nagasaki1,312,3174,131
Nara1,324,4733,691
Niigata2,201,27212,584
Oita1,123,8526,340
Okayama1,888,4327,114
Naha1,467,4802,282
Osaka8,837,6851,905
Saga811,4422,441
Saitama7,344,7653,798
Otsu1,413,6104,017
Matsue671,1266,708
Shizuoka3,633,2027,777
Utsunomiya1,933,1466,408
Tokushima719,5594,147
Tokyo14,047,5942,200
Tottori553,4073,507
Toyama1,034,8144,248
Wakayama922,5844,725
Yamagata1,068,0279,323
Yamaguchi1,342,0596,113
Kofu809,9744,465

Quizzes and worksheets

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Sources

  • Prefectures: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), National Land Numerical Information, Administrative Areas (N03), 1 January 2026; Hokkaido is drawn, as Japan's official data draws it, with the Northern Territories (administered by Russia).
  • Prefecture areas: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Statistical Reports on the Land Area by Prefectures and Municipalities in Japan, 1 July 2026.
  • Populations and city names: Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2020 Population Census, Basic Complete Tabulation on Population and Households, table 1-1 (e-Stat).
  • City locations: MLIT, National Land Numerical Information, Municipal Office Locations (P34, 2014).
  • Expressways: MLIT, National Land Numerical Information, Expressway Time-Series Data (N06, 2025): national expressways and the Honshu–Shikoku bridges, and other national-highway expressways.
  • Rivers and lakes: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, Global Map Japan version 2.2 (1:1,000,000).