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Furusato - or Japanese prefecture stamps
a list of the prefectures
A map of Japan with the 47 Prefectures. The numbers are the official geocodes, according to ISO 3166-2:JP standard.
| number | larger region | Furusato / prefecture | |
| 1 | Hokkaido | Hokkaido island | Hokkaido |
| 2 | Tohoku | literally east-north-region | Aomori |
| 3 | Iwate | ||
| 4 | Miyagi | ||
| 5 | Akita | ||
| 6 | Yamagata | ||
| 7 | Fukushima | ||
| 15 | Shin'etsu | Chubu region | Niigata |
| 20 | Nagano | ||
| 16 | Hokuriku | Toyama | |
| 17 | Ishikawa | ||
| 18 | Fukui | ||
| 21 | Tokai | Gifu | |
| 22 | Shizuoka | ||
| 23 | Aichi | ||
| 24 | Mie | ||
| 8 | Kanto | Ibaraki | |
| 9 | Tochigi | ||
| 10 | Gunma | ||
| 11 | Saitama | ||
| 12 | Chiba | ||
| 13 | Tokyo | ||
| 14 | Kanagawa | ||
| 19 | Yamanashi | ||
| 25 | Kinki | also known by the old name Kansai | Shiga |
| 26 | Kyoto | ||
| 27 | Osaka | ||
| 28 | Hyogo | ||
| 29 | Nara | ||
| 30 | Wakayama | ||
| 31 | Chugoku | Tottori | |
| 32 | Shimane | ||
| 33 | Okayama | ||
| 34 | Hiroshima | ||
| 35 | Yamaguchi | ||
| 36 | Shikoku | literally means "4 countries" | Tokushima |
| 37 | Kagawa | ||
| 38 | Ehime | ||
| 39 | Kochi | ||
| 40 | Kyushu | Kyushu and Okinawa islands | Fukuoka |
| 41 | Saga | ||
| 42 | Nagasaki | ||
| 43 | Kumamoto | ||
| 44 | Oita | ||
| 45 | Miyazaki | ||
| 46 | Kagoshima | ||
| 47 | Okinawa | Okinawa |