Traveling To Japan 47 Prefectures By Train

Travelling To Japan’s 47 Prefectures By Train – 17 Done 30 To Go

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I have a dream to travel to all of Japan’s 47 prefectures by train and experience a bit of culture in each of the prefectures. I have travelled to 17 of the 47 prefectures (crossed on the below list), and a few I wouldn’t mind revisiting. When I got some free time (and am not lazy), I plan to map the Japan train routes (#TrainNerd) that I am going to take to make this dream come true. But for now, here is the complete list of Japan’s 47 prefectures.

  1. Hokkaido / Sapporo – and Otaru, Lake Akan, also Furano
  2.  Nagano
  3.  Gifu – Stayed in a ryokan in Takayama
  4.  Nara
  5.  Hyogo / Kobe
  6.  Gunma / Maebashi – I went to Takasaki in 2019
  7.  Osaka
  8.  TokyoShinjuku
  9.  Chiba – Narita International Airport
  10.  Ishikawa / Kanazawa
  11.  Aichi / Nagoya
  12.  Kanagawa / Hakone and Yokohama
  13.  Wakayama – I stayed in Koyasan on my first Japan trip with my best friends
  14.  Kyoto – Kyoto is my favourite city in Japan. One day I will live here
  15.  Shizuoka
  16.  Niigata
  17.  Mie / Tsu – visited Nabana no Sato
  18.  Miyagi / Sendai
  19.  Kochi
  20.  Yamanashi / Kofu
  21.  Okayama
  22.  Kumamoto
  23.  Shimane Matsue
  24.  Miyazaki
  25.  Tochigi / Utsunomiya
  26.  Yamaguchi
  27.  Ibaraki /Mito
  28.  Oita
  29.  Ehime / Matsuyama
  30.  Toyama
  31.  Akita
  32.  Fukui
  33.  Fukuoka
  34.  Tokushima
  35.  Nagasaki
  36.  Iwate / Morioka
  37.  Fukushima / Fukushima City
  38.  Shiga / Otsu
  39.  Koshigaya / Saitama. I want to get the Daruma doll specific to this prefecture.
  40.  Tottori
  41.  Saga
  42.  Okinawa / Naha
  43.  Aomori
  44.  Yamagata
  45.  Kagoshima
  46.  Hiroshima
  47.  Kagawa / Takamatsu

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