THE BIGGER PICTURE
Get to know Japan.
Explore Japan through its eight regions, 47 prefectures and 1,900 municipalities. Click a prefecture, a region’s name, or, zoomed in, a city, town, village or ward.
Boundaries come from Japan’s National Land Numerical Information (MLIT, 2025) at full detail, with English names from geoBoundaries; cities and towns of 15,000 people or more from Natural Earth and GeoNames; relief from Terrarium elevation tiles; and land cover, roads and railways from OpenFreeMap.