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Green woods near the seaport at current Aomori City, called "aoi-matsu-no-ki-mori" (forest of blue pines), were used as landmarks for the ships that came into port, later shortened to Aomori (青森)→ blue forest. Chiba: 千葉県: Chiba-ken (千葉県) The name of Chiba Prefecture in Japanese is formed from two kanji characters. The first ...
It is situated 12 km (7.5 mi) towards the north-east of the former administrative seat Xinjie (a.k.a. Old Yuanyang or just Yuanyang) to which it is connected by a 27 km (17 mi) long twisting mountain road. To the south of Old Yuanyang, the town of Panzhihua is positioned near the top of another major valley of rice-terraces. There are a total ...
Place names in Okinawa Prefecture are drawn from the traditional Ryukyuan languages. Many place names use the unique languages names, while other place names have both a method of reading the name in Japanese and a way to read the name in the traditional local language. The capital city Naha is Naafa in the Okinawan language.
This is a list of cities in Japan sorted by prefecture and within prefecture by founding date. The list is also sortable by population, area, density and foundation date. Most large cities in Japan are cities designated by government ordinance. Some regionally important cities are designated as core cities.
A town (町; chō or machi) is a local administrative unit in Japan. It is a local public body along with prefecture (ken or other equivalents), city , and village . Geographically, a town is contained within a district. The same word (町; machi or chō) is also used in names of smaller regions, usually a part of a ward in a city. This is a ...
Tokyo Prefecture now encompasses 23 special wards, each a city unto itself, as well as many other cities, towns and even villages on the Japanese mainland and outlying islands. Each of the 23 special wards of Tokyo is legally equivalent to a city, though sometimes the 23 special wards as a whole are regarded as one city.
43 of the 47 prefectures are referred to as ken (県, pronounced when a separate word but when part of the full name of a prefecture, e.g. and become [aitɕi̥ꜜkeɴ]). The Classical Chinese character from which this is derived carries a rural or provincial connotation, and an analogous character is used to refer to the counties of China ...
There are a small number of municipalities in Japan whose names are written in hiragana or katakana, together known as kana, rather than kanji as is traditional for Japanese place names. [1] Many city names written in kana have kanji equivalents that are either phonetic manyōgana, or whose kanji are outside of the jōyō kanji.