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Japan prefectures quiz

Japan prefectures: how fast can you find the prefectures?

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Example

Japan prefectures quiz: 47 to find, 17 capitals with other names, Okinawa in its box

An English teacher newly placed in Gunma learns the prefectures with the quiz in English. “Find the place” asks all 47; “Find it from its capital” asks the 17 whose capital has another name; “Choose the capital” asks 46, every prefecture but Tokyo, and still asks Aomori, Kyoto or Fukuoka, whose capital shares their name.

  1. In English Saitama’s capital is also Saitama, so this page asks 17 from their capitals; the Japanese page, where さいたま and 埼玉 differ, asks 18.
  2. Look-alikes in “Choose the capital”: Matsue (Shimane) and Matsuyama (Ehime), with Mito, Morioka, Maebashi and Miyazaki sharing the M.
  3. Okinawa is drawn in a box of its own; Saga, Kanagawa, Osaka and Kagawa are about 30 pixels across in an 800-pixel-wide quiz, so zoom in on a phone.
Prefecture Capital asked in “Find it from its capital”
Hokkaido Sapporo
Iwate Morioka
Miyagi Sendai
Ibaraki Mito
Tochigi Utsunomiya
Gunma Maebashi
Kanagawa Yokohama
Ishikawa Kanazawa
Yamanashi Kofu
Aichi Nagoya
Mie Tsu
Shiga Otsu
Hyogo Kobe
Shimane Matsue
Kagawa Takamatsu
Ehime Matsuyama
Okinawa Naha

A round ends “Done! 41/47 in 5:02”, say; the prefectures missed are listed, and “Practise the ones I missed” asks only those. In “Choose the capital” the list shows each with its capital, such as “Ehime · Matsuyama”.

How it works

  1. Choose whether to find the prefectures or find them from their capitals.
  2. Click or tap each place as its name appears; zoom in for the small ones.
  3. At the end, see your time and score, then practise only the ones you missed.

Frequently asked questions

Are the prefecture names in Japanese?
The names follow the language of the page; open the Japanese page for the names in Japanese.
How does it work?
A name appears above the map: click or tap that place. Right answers turn green; after three misses the answer is shown. Skipped places come back at the end, and the ones you missed can be practised again.
Why does the capitals quiz ask only 17 prefectures?
In “Find it from its capital”, 29 prefectures are left out because their capital has the same name in English (Aomori, Kyoto, Fukuoka…), and Tokyo has none to ask. “Choose the capital” asks 46, those 29 included.
Do I need an account?
No. The quiz runs in your browser with nothing to sign up for, and your scores are not stored anywhere.

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