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Japanese Geography Flashcards

2014-03-03

While planning motorcycle rides, I realized it would be great to know more about Japan's geography. To paraphrase from Wikipedia...

The prefectures of Japan are the country's 47 first-order subnational jurisdictions on a state or provincial level: one metropolis, Tokyo; one territory, Hokkaido; two urban prefectures, Osaka and Kyoto; and 43 other prefectures. Prefectures are governmental bodies larger than cities, towns, and villages. The former provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures at the start of the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

It has been noted that pictures are effective on flashcards. I grabbed a bunch of maps of regions and prefectures in Japan from Wikimedia Commons and from them made an Anki deck.

There are fifty-five notes, one for each geographical area. The front of each card shows a map with the target area shaded. The back shows the area name in kanji, kana, and English. As usual, the fields are customizable. You can make the images smaller, for cell phone use. If you're content with just the English, there's no need to display the Japanese. All the maps are in public domain. The deck itself is under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

PictureKanjiKanaEnglish
Japan/Aichi.png愛知県あいちけんAichi
Japan/Akita.png秋田県あきたけんAkita
Japan/Aomori.png青森県あおもりけんAomori
Japan/Chiba.png千葉県ちばけんChiba
Japan/Chubu.png中部地方ちゅうぶちほうChūbu
Japan/Chugoku.png中国地方ちゅうごくちほうChūgoku
Japan/Ehime.png愛媛県えひめけんEhime
Japan/Fukui.png福井県ふくいけんFukui
Japan/Fukuoka.png福岡県ふくおかけんFukuoka
Japan/Fukushima.png福島県ふくしまけんFukushima
Japan/Gifu.png岐阜県ぎふけんGifu
Japan/Gunma.png群馬県ぐんまけんGunma
Japan/Hiroshima.png広島県ひろしまけんHiroshima
Japan/Hokkaido.png北海道ほっかいどうHokkaidō
Japan/Honshu.png本州ほんしゅうHonshu
Japan/Hyogo.png兵庫県ひょうごけんHyōgo
Japan/Ibaraki.png茨城県いばらきけんIbaraki
Japan/Ishikawa.png石川県いしかわけんIshikawa
Japan/Iwate.png岩手県いわてけんIwate
Japan/Kagawa.png香川県かがわけんKagawa
Japan/Kagoshima.png鹿児島県かごしまけんKagoshima
Japan/Kanagawa.png神奈川県かながわけんKanagawa
Japan/Kinki.png関西地方かんさいちほうKansai
Japan/Kanto.png関東地方かんとうちほうKantō
Japan/Kinki.png近畿地方きんきちほうKinki
Japan/Kochi.png高知県こうちけんKōchi
Japan/Kumamoto.png熊本県くまもとけんKumamoto
Japan/Kyoto.png京都府きょうとふKyōto
Japan/Kyushu.png九州きゅうしゅうKyūshū
Japan/Mie.png三重県みえけんMie
Japan/Miyagi.png宮城県みやぎけんMiyagi
Japan/Miyazaki.png宮崎県みやざきけんMiyazaki
Japan/Nagano.png長野県ながのけんNagano
Japan/Nagasaki.png長崎県ながさきけんNagasaki
Japan/Nara.png奈良県ならけんNara
Japan/Niigata.png新潟県にいがたけんNiigata
Japan/Oita.png大分県おおいたけんŌita
Japan/Okayama.png岡山県おかやまけんOkayama
Japan/Okinawa.png沖縄県おきなわけんOkinawa
Japan/Osaka.png大阪府おおさかふŌsaka
Japan/Saga.png佐賀県さがけんSaga
Japan/Saitama.png埼玉県さいたまけんSaitama
Japan/Shiga.png滋賀県しがけんShiga
Japan/Shikoku.png四国しこくShikoku
Japan/Shimane.png島根県しまねけんShimane
Japan/Shizuoka.png静岡県しずおかけんShizuoka
Japan/Tochigi.png栃木県とちぎけんTochigi
Japan/Tohoku.png東北地方とうほくちほうTōhoku
Japan/Tokushima.png徳島県とくしまけんTokushima
Japan/Tokyo.png東京都とうきょうとTokyo
Japan/Tottori.png鳥取県とっとりけんTottori
Japan/Toyama.png富山県とやまけんToyama
Japan/Wakayama.png和歌山県わかやまけんWakayama
Japan/Yamagata.png山形県やまがたけんYamagata
Japan/Yamaguchi.png山口県やまぐちけんYamaguchi
Japan/Yamanashi.png山梨県やまなしけんYamanashi