Japan map quiz
Can you find all 47 Japanese prefectures?
Quizzes in this pack
Japan: prefectures, capitals, islands, waters, cities.
| Prefectures | 47 questions |
| Capitals | 47 questions |
| Islands | 8 questions |
| Waters | 5 questions |
| Cities | 10 questions |
Sample questions
- Japan's northernmost and largest prefecture, famous for skiing and dairy
- Answer: Hokkaido
- Kanto region, landlocked prefecture famous for onsen hot springs
- Answer: Gunma
- Chubu region at the foot of Mount Fuji, famous for grapes and wine
- Answer: Yamanashi
- Kansai region, home to Kobe, Himeji Castle and the 1995 earthquake
- Answer: Hyogo
- Shikoku's smallest prefecture, famous for Sanuki udon noodles
- Answer: Kagawa
Learn more
Hokkaido
Northern Japan
Hokkaido is Japan's northernmost and second largest island after Honshu, with cold snowy winters, dairy farms and wide open land. In summer, lavender fields around Furano turn the hills purple, and in winter Sapporo holds its snow festival. It is the home of the Ainu, Japan's Indigenous people.
- Known for
- Lavender, snow, the Ainu
Ishikawa
Central Japan, the Sea of Japan coast
Ishikawa has Kanazawa, a castle town that makes almost all of Japan's gold leaf. Kenroku-en, one of the three great gardens of Japan, is famous for its stone lantern with two legs, one in the pond. The long Noto Peninsula stretches into the sea.
- Known for
- Kenroku-en, gold leaf, Noto
Hiroshima
Western Japan
Hiroshima was the first city hit by an atomic bomb, on 6 August 1945, and the ruined dome of the Peace Memorial still stands. On the island of Miyajima, the great red torii gate of Itsukushima Shrine seems to float on the sea at high tide.
- Known for
- Miyajima, the Peace Memorial, okonomiyaki
Morioka
Iwate
Morioka lies where three rivers meet, below Mount Iwate, an old volcano often called the Fuji of the north. It is known for heavy cast-iron kettles and for wanko soba, where waiters keep refilling your bowl with small portions of noodles until you put the lid on.
- Known for
- Mount Iwate, iron kettles, wanko soba
Nagano
Nagano, in the Japanese Alps
Nagano grew around Zenko-ji, one of the most important Buddhist temples in Japan, founded in the 600s, where visitors can walk through a pitch-dark tunnel under the main hall. The city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1998, and snow monkeys bathe in hot springs in the mountains nearby.
- Known for
- Zenko-ji, the 1998 Olympics, snow monkeys
Tokushima
Tokushima, Shikoku
Tokushima, on the island of Shikoku, is famous for Awa Odori, a dance festival every August when more than a million people come to watch groups dance through the streets. The 88-temple pilgrimage around Shikoku traditionally starts in Tokushima Prefecture.
- Known for
- Awa Odori, the 88-temple pilgrimage, indigo dye
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
