Japan is administratively divided in 47 complementary areas listed in English below by big region from North-East to South-West:

1. Hokkaido
2. Aomori
3. Iwate
4. Akita
5. Miyagi
6. Yamagata
7. Fukushima
8. Ibaraki
9. Tochigi
10. Gunma
11. Chiba
12. Saitama
13. Tokyo
14. Kanagawa
15. Niigata
16. Toyama
17. Ishikawa
18. Nagano
19. Gifu
20. Fukui
21. Yamanashi
22. Shizuoka
23. Aichi
24. Shiga
25. Kyoto
26. Hyogo
27. Mie
28. Nara
29. Osaka
30. Wakayama
31. Tottori
32. Shimane
33. Okayama
34. Hiroshima
35. Yamaguchi
36. Kagawa
37. Tokushima
38. Ehime
39. Kochi
40. Fukuoka
41. Saga
42. Nagasaki
43. Oita
44. Miyazaki
45. Kumamoto
46. Kagoshima
47. Okinawa

Any specialist of Japan should know this basic list and should be able to place the 47 names on an administrative map of Japan. Do not wait if you plan to be an English-speaking tour conductor, tour guide or travel agent in Japan like Sébastien Duval 

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