Prefectural Capital

  • Hokkai-do - Sapporo
  • Aomori-ken - Aomori
  • Iwate-ken - Morioka
  • Miyagi-ken - Sendai
  • Akita-ken - Akita
  • Yamagata-ken - Yamagata
  • Fukushima-ken - Fukushima
  • Ibaragi-ken - Mito
  • Tochigi-ken - Utsunomiya
  • Gunma-ken - Maebashi
  • Saitama-ken - Saitama
  • Chiba-ken - Chiba
  • Tokyo-to - Tokyo
  • Kanagawa-ken - Yokohama
  • Niigata-ken - Niigata
  • Toyama-ken - Toyama
  • Ishikawa-ken - Kanazawa
  • Fukui-ken - Fukui
  • Yamanashi-ken - Kofu
  • Nagano-ken - Nagano
  • Gifu-ken - Gifu
  • Shizuoka-ken - Shizuoka
  • Aichi-ken - Nagoya
  • Mie-ken - Tsu
  • Shiga-ken - Ootsu
  • Kyoto-fu - Kyoto
  • Osaka-fu - Osaka
  • Hyogo-ken - Kobe
  • Nara-ken - Nara
  • Wakayama-ken - Wakayama
  • Tottori-ken - Tottori
  • Shimane-ken - Matsue
  • Okayama-ken - Okayama
  • Hiroshima-ken - Hiroshima
  • Yamaguchi-ken - Yamaguchi
  • Tokushima-ken - Tokushima
  • Kagawa-ken - Takamatsu
  • Ehime-ken - Matsuyama
  • Kochi-ken - Kochi
  • Fukuoka-ken - Fukuoka
  • Saga-ken - Saga
  • Nagasaki-ken - Nagasaki
  • Kumamoto-ken - Kumamoto
  • Oita-ken - Oita
  • Miyazaki-ken - Miyazaki
  • Kagoshima-ken - Kagoshima
  • Okinawa-ken - Naha

Prefectural Capital cities often have the same name for their prefecture, but sometimes different.

Cities with different names are shown in bold.