Xrthnty

Okayama Prefecture
; Okayama Prefecture; .mw-parser-output .noboldfont-weight:normal; 岡山県;
	; Prefecture;
Japanese transcription(s)
• Japanese;	; 岡山県;
• Rōmaji;	; Okayama-ken;
; ; Flag;	; ; Symbol;
	;
Country	; Japan;
Region	; Chūgoku (Sanyō)
Island	; Honshu;
Capital	; Okayama;
Government;
• Governor;	; Ryūta Ibaragi;
Area;
• Total	; 7,113.21 km2 (2,746.43 sq mi)
Area rank	; 15th;
Population (February 1, 2018);
• Total	; 1,906,464
• Rank	; 21st;
• Density	; 270/km2 (690/sq mi)
ISO 3166 code	; JP-33
Districts	; 10
Municipalities	; 27
Flower	; Peach blossom (Prunus persica var. vulgaris)
Tree	; Red pine (Pinus densiflora)
Bird	; Lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)
Website	; www.pref.okayama.jp;

Prefecture in Chūgoku (Sanyō), Japan

Okayama Prefecture (岡山県, Okayama-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region on the main island of Honshu.^[1] The capital is the city of Okayama.^[2]^[3]^[4]

History

Prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the area of present-day Okayama Prefecture was divided between Bitchū, Bizen and Mimasaka Provinces. Okayama Prefecture was formed and named in 1871 as part of the large-scale administrative reforms of the early Meiji period (1868–1912), and the borders of the prefecture were set in 1876.^[3]^[5]

Geography

Map of Okayama Prefecture
Government Ordinance Designated City City Town

Okayama Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture, Tottori Prefecture, and Hiroshima Prefecture.^[3] It faces Kagawa Prefecture in Shikoku across the Seto Inland Sea and includes 90 islands in the sea.

Okayama Prefecture is home to the historic town of Kurashiki. Most of the population is concentrated around Kurashiki and Okayama. The small villages in the northern mountain region are aging and declining in population - more than half of the prefectures municipalities are officially designated as depopulated.^[6]

As of 1 April 2014, 11% of the total land area of the prefecture was designated as Natural Parks, namely the Daisen-Oki and Setonaikai National Parks; the Hyōnosen-Ushiroyama-Nagisan Quasi-National Park; and seven Prefectural Natural Parks.^[7]

Cities

Fifteen cities are located in Okayama Prefecture:

Okayama City

Tsuyama

Takahashi

Niimi

Akaiwa

Asakuchi

Bizen

Ibara

Kasaoka

Kurashiki

Maniwa

Mimasaka

Niimi

Okayama (capital)

Setouchi

Sōja

Takahashi

Tamano

Tsuyama

Towns and villages

These are the towns and villages in each district:

Aida District
- Nishiawakura

Asakuchi District
- Satoshō

Kaga District
- Kibichūō

Katsuta District
- Nagi
- Shōō

Kume District
- Kumenan
- Misaki

Maniwa District
- Shinjō

Oda District
- Yakage

Tomata District
- Kagamino

Tsukubo District
- Hayashima

Wake District
- Wake

Mergers

Education

Universities

Okayama
- Okayama University
- Okayama University of Science
- Okayama Shoka University
- Sanyo Gakuen University
- Shujitsu University

Kurashiki
- Okayama Gakuin University
- Kurashiki Sakuyo University
- Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare

Soja
- Okayama Prefectural University

Tsuyama
- Mimasaka University

Niimi
- Niimi Public University

High schools

Okayama
- Okayama Ichinomiya Senior High School
- Okayama Asahi Senior High School
- Okayama Sozan Senior High School
- Okayama Hosen Senior High School
- Okayama Joto Senior High School
- Okayama Sakuyo High School^[8]
- Kurashiki High School

Transportation

Rail

JR West
- Sanyo Shinkansen
- Sanyo Line
- Hakubi Line
- Kibi Line
- Ako Line
- Uno Line
- Kishin Line
- Geibi Line
- Imbi Line

JR West and JR Shikoku
- Seto-Ōhashi Line
- Honshi-bisan Line

Chizu Express

Ibara Railway

Mizushima Rinkai Railway

Tramways

Okayama Electric Tramway

Roads

Expressways

Sanyo Expressway

Chugoku Expressway

Seto Central Expressway

Yonago Expressway

Okayama Expressway

Tottori Expressway

National highways

Route 2 (Osaka-Kobe-Himeji-Bizen-Okayama-Kurashiki-Asakuchi-Onomichi-Hiroshima-Shunan-Shimonoseki-Kitakyushu)

Route 30 (Okayama-Uno-Takamatsu

Route 53 (Okayama-Tsuyama-Tottori)

Route 179

Route 180 (Okayama-Takahashi-Niimi)

Route 181 (Tsuyama-Maniwa-Yonago-Yasugi-Matsue)

Route 182

Route 183

Route 250 (Okayama-Setouchi-Ako-Aioi-Takasago-Akashi)

Route 313 (Fukuyama-Takahashi-Maniwa-Kurayoshi)

Route 373

Route 374

Route 429

Route 430

Route 482 (Kyotango-Toyooka-Wakasa-Kagamino-Maniwa-Kofu of Tottori

Route 484

Airport

Okayama Airport

Culture

Bizen-yaki (Bizen pottery)

Bizen Osafune/Bitchu Aoe swords

Association with Momotarō legend

Okayama Prefecture is closely associated with the folklore hero, Momotarō. This tale is said to have roots in the legendary story of Kibitsuhiko-no-mikoto and Ura which explains that the Prince Ura of Kudara used to live in Kinojo (castle of the devil) and was a cause of trouble for the people living in the village. The emperor's government sent Kibitsuhiko-no-mikoto(Momotarō) to defeat Ura. The city of Okayama holds an annual Momotarō-matsuri, or Momotarō Festival.^[4]^[9]

Sports

The sports teams listed below are based in Okayama.

Soccer

Fagiano Okayama F.C. (Okayama city)

Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima F.C. (Kurashiki)

Volleyball

Okayama Seagulls (Okayama city)

Tourism

Okayama Korakuen Park and Okayama Castle

Hiruzen Plateau and Hiruzen Joyful Park in Maniwa

Hinase Island and Seto Inlandsea in Bizen

Some tourist attractions are:

Koraku-en Japanese garden in Okayama

Okayama Castle, Okayama

Ki Castle, Sōja

Shizutani School, Bizen

Bikan Historical Area (倉敷美観地区, Kurashiki Bikan Chiku), Kurashiki

Bitchu Matsuyama Castle, Takahashi

Kakuzan Park, Tsuyama

Bisei Astronomical Observatory (美星天文台, Bisei Tenmondai), Ibara Town (following dissolution of Bisei Town)

Maki-do Cave, in Niimi

Notable people

Shin Koyamada, Hollywood actor from The Last Samurai

Shin Koyamada, Hollywood actor^[10]

Yuko Arimori, marathon runner^[11]

Tesshō Genda, voice actor

Ryutaro Hashimoto, Kiichiro Hiranuma, Inukai Tsuyoshi, former Prime Ministers of Japan

Sen'ichi Hoshino, baseball manager

Koshi Inaba, singer

Ichiyo Izawa, pianist and former member of Tokyo Jihen

Yoshio Nishina, known as the Father of Physics in Japan

Yumeji Takehisa, famous and influential early 20th century artist

Sesshu Toyo, suiboku master

Joichiro Tatsuyoshi, boxer

Haruka Fukushima, manga artist

Masashi Kishimoto, manga artist and creator of Naruto^[12]

Seishi Kishimoto, manga artist

Daisuke Takahashi, Olympic figure skater

Dorlis, jazz musician

Miyamoto Musashi, samurai

Megumi Fujii, MMA Fighter

Masaki Kajishima, creator of Tenchi Muyo!

Morihiro Hashimoto, darts player

Notes

^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Okayama-ken" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 745, p. 745, at Google Books; "Chūgoku" at p. 127, p. 127, at Google Books.

^ Nussbaum, "Okayama" at p. 745, p. 745, at Google Books.

^ ^a^b^c "Okayama Prefecture". Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. OCLC 56431036. Archived from the original on August 25, 2007. Retrieved 2012-08-01..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em

^ ^a^b "岡山（県）" [Okayama Prefecture]. Nihon Daihyakka Zensho (Nipponika) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. OCLC 153301537. Archived from the original on August 25, 2007. Retrieved 2012-08-15.

^ Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books.

^ Okayama official website Archived 2013-01-02 at the Wayback Machine. accessed Nov. 2007

^ "General overview of area figures for Natural Parks by prefecture" (PDF). Ministry of the Environment. 1 April 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2015.

^ "岡山県作陽高等学校". www.sakuyo-h.ed.jp. Archived from the original on 11 January 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.

^ "Okayama History". Archived from the original on 22 May 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2012.

^ "Shin Koyamada's IMDB Biography". Archived from the original on 2013-03-27.

^ "Yuko Arimori's profile".

^ "Masashi Kishimoto's Biography on TV.com". Archived from the original on 2013-08-17.

References

Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5;
OCLC 58053128.

External links

Official website

Official tourism site

Official account's channel on YouTube

Coordinates: 34°42′N 133°51′E / 34.700°N 133.850°E / 34.700; 133.850

[1] Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Okayama-ken" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 745, p. 745, at Google Books; "Chūgoku" at p. 127, p. 127, at Google Books.

[2] Nussbaum, "Okayama" at p. 745, p. 745, at Google Books.

[enc-3] "Okayama Prefecture". Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. OCLC 56431036. Archived from the original on August 25, 2007. Retrieved 2012-08-01..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em

[nipponika-4] "岡山（県）" [Okayama Prefecture]. Nihon Daihyakka Zensho (Nipponika) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Shogakukan. 2012. OCLC 153301537. Archived from the original on August 25, 2007. Retrieved 2012-08-15.

[5] Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books.

[6] Okayama official website Archived 2013-01-02 at the Wayback Machine. accessed Nov. 2007

[7] "General overview of area figures for Natural Parks by prefecture" (PDF). Ministry of the Environment. 1 April 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2015.

[8] "岡山県作陽高等学校". www.sakuyo-h.ed.jp. Archived from the original on 11 January 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2018.

[9] "Okayama History". Archived from the original on 22 May 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2012.

[10] "Shin Koyamada's IMDB Biography". Archived from the original on 2013-03-27.

[11] "Yuko Arimori's profile".

[12] "Masashi Kishimoto's Biography on TV.com". Archived from the original on 2013-08-17.

v t e Okayama Prefecture
Okayama (capital)
Wards of Okayama	Kita Naka Higashi Minami
Core city	Kurashiki
Cities	Akaiwa Asakuchi Bizen Ibara Kasaoka Maniwa Mimasaka Niimi Setouchi Sōja Takahashi Tamano Tsuyama
Districts	Aida District Nishiawakura Asakuchi District Satoshō Kaga District Kibichūō Katsuta District Nagi Shōō Kume District Kumenan Misaki Maniwa District Shinjō Oda District Yakage Tomata District Kagamino Tsukubo District Hayashima Wake District Wake
List of mergers in Okayama Prefecture

搜尋此網誌