Shizuoka
Shizuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. As of September 2023, Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,555,818 and has a geographic area of 7,777.42 km2.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Shizuoka and Hamamatsu.
Shizuoka
Shizuoka is the capital city of Shizuoka prefecture in Japan's Chubu region. In 2005, Shizuoka absorbed the neighboring city of Shimizu.
Hamamatsu
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Hamamatsu is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. In September 2023, the city had an estimated population of 780,128 in 340,591 households, making it the prefecture's largest city, with a population density of 500/km2 over the total urban area of 1,558.06 km2.
Fuji
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Fuji is a city in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2019, the city had an estimated population of 245,015 in 106,087 households, and a population density of 1,000 people per km2.
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Izu Peninsula
The Izu peninsula is a mountainous peninsula with a deeply indented coastline to the west of Tokyo on the Pacific coast of the island of Honshu, Japan, the largest of the four main islands of Japan.
Numazu
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Numazu is a city located in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2019, the city had an estimated population of 189,486 in 91,986 households, and a population density of 1,014 persons per km2.
Iwata
Iwata is a city located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 May 2019, the city had an estimated population of 169,897 in 68,215 households and a population density was 1,000 persons per km2.
Fujinomiya
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Fujinomiya is a city located in central Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 July 2019, the city had an estimated population of 132,507 in 56,655 households, and a population density of 340 persons per km2.
Kakegawa
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Kakegawa is a city in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 10 October 2019, the city had an estimated population of 117,925 in 45,519 households. The total area of the city is 265.69 square kilometres.
Fukuroi
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Fukuroi is a city located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 July 2019, the city had an estimated population of 88,395 in 34,842 households, and a population density of 820 persons per km2.
Gotemba
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Gotemba, occasionally written Gotenba, is a city in Shizuoka, Japan. One of the starting points for the climb up Mount Fuji, Gotemba also offers premium outlet shopping.
Omaezaki
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Omaezaki is a city located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Omaezaki is located at the tip of Omaezaki Peninsula on Japan's Pacific coast. As of 31 July 2019, the city had an estimated population of 32,422 in 12,095 households and a population density of 490 persons per km2.
Shimada
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Shimada is a city located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city, which covers an area of 315.7 square kilometres. It had an estimated population in September 2023 of 93,724, giving a population density of about 300 persons per km2.
Kosai
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Kosai is a city located in far western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 June 2019, the city had an estimated population of 57,885 in 24,232 households, and a population density of 668.7 persons per km2.
Kikugawa
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Kikugawa is a city located in the western portion of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 28 February 2023, the city had an estimated population of 47,714 in 18,775 households, and a population density of 510 persons per km².
Mori
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Mori is a town located in Shūchi District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2019, the town had an estimated population of 18,306 in 6622 households, and a population density of 134 persons per km2.
Shizuoka
- Type: prefecture of Japan with 3,640,000 residents
- Description: prefecture of Japan
- Also known as: “Shizuoka Ken” and “Shizuoka Prefecture”
- Neighbors: Aichi, Kanagawa, Nagano, and Yamanashi
- Location: Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Shizuoka” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Prefektur Shizuoka”
- Afrikaans: “Shizuoka Prefektuur”
- Afrikaans: “Shizuoka-prefektuur”
- Arabic: “شيزوكا”
- Arabic: “محافظة شيزوأوكا”
- Arabic: “محافظة شيزوكا”
- Arabic: “محافظة شيزووكا”
- Armenian: “Սիձուոկա (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
- Armenian: “Սիձուոկա”
- Asturian: “prefeutura de Shizuoka”
- Asturian: “Prefeutura de Shizuoka”
- Asturian: “Shizuoka (prefeutura)”
- Asturian: “Shizuoka (Xapón)”
- Asturian: “Shizuoka”
- Azerbaijani: “Şizuoka prefekturası”
- Balinese: “Préféktur Shizuoka”
- Bashkir: “Сидзуока (префектура)”
- Bashkir: “Сидзуока”
- Basque: “Shizuoka”
- Belarusian: “прэфектура Сідзуока”
- Belarusian: “прэфэктура Сідзуока”
- Belarusian: “Сідзуока (прэфэктура)”
- Belarusian: “Сідзуока”
- Bengali: “শিযুওকা প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Шидзуока”
- Catalan: “prefectura de Shizuoka”
- Catalan: “Prefectura de Shizuoka”
- Cebuano: “Shizuoka-ken”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای شیزوئۆکا”
- Central Kurdish: “شیزوئۆکا”
- Chechen: “Сидзуока (префектура)”
- Chechen: “Сидзуока”
- Chinese: “Sizuoka-koān”
- Chinese: “静冈县”
- Chinese: “静岗县”
- Chinese: “靜岡縣”
- Croatian: “Prefektura Shizuoka”
- Croatian: “Shizuoka”
- Czech: “Prefektura Šizuoka”
- Danish: “Shizuoka-præfekturet”
- Dutch: “Shizuoka Prefectuur”
- Dutch: “Shizuoka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيزوكا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محافظه شيزوكا”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Ŝizuoka”
- Esperanto: “gubernio Ŝizuoko”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Ŝizuoko”
- Esperanto: “prefektujo Ŝizuoko (ĝis 2008)”
- Esperanto: “Sizuoka-ken”
- Estonian: “Shizuoka prefektuur”
- Finnish: “Shizuokan prefektuuri”
- French: “préfecture de Shizuoka”
- French: “Préfecture de Shizuoka”
- French: “Shizuoka-ken”
- French: “Shizuoka”
- Galician: “Prefectura de Shizuoka”
- Georgian: “სიძუოკის პრეფექტურა”
- German: “JP-22”
- German: “Präfektur Shizuoka”
- German: “Shizuoka-ken”
- German: “Shizuoka”
- Greek: “Σιζουόκα”
- Gujarati: “શિઝુઓકા પ્રીફેકચર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Shizuoka-yen”
- Hebrew: “שיזואוקה”
- Hindi: “शिज़ुओका प्रांत”
- Hindi: “शिज़ूओका प्रांत”
- Hindi: “शिझुओका प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Sizuoka prefektúra”
- Icelandic: “Shizuoka-hérað”
- Icelandic: “Shizuoka-umdæmi”
- Iloko: “Prepektura ti Shizuoka”
- Iloko: “Shizuoka”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Shizuoka”
- Indonesian: “Shizuoka”
- Irish: “Maoracht Shizuoka”
- Italian: “prefettura di Shizuoka”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Shizuoka”
- Japanese: “しずおか”
- Japanese: “シズオカ”
- Japanese: “しずおかけん”
- Japanese: “シズオカケン”
- Japanese: “静岡”
- Japanese: “静岡県”
- Javanese: “Prefektur Shizuoka”
- Javanese: “Préfèktur Shizuoka”
- Kannada: “ಶಿಝುವೊಕಾ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
- Korean: “시즈오까현”
- Korean: “시즈오카 현”
- Korean: “시즈오카현”
- Latvian: “Sidzuokas prefektūra”
- Latvian: “Šidzuokas prefektūra”
- Literary Chinese: “靜岡縣”
- Lithuanian: “Shizuoka prefektūra”
- Lithuanian: “Šidzuoka prefektūra”
- Lithuanian: “Šidzuokos prefektūra”
- Lithuanian: “Šizuoka prefektūra”
- Lithuanian: “Šizuokos prefektūra”
- Macedonian: “Шизуока”
- Malay: “Wilayah Shizuoka”
- Manipuri: “ꯁꯤꯓꯨꯑꯣꯀꯥ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
- Marathi: “शिझुओका प्रांत”
- Marathi: “शिझुओका”
- Mesopotamian Arabic: “محافظة شيزوكا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Shizuoka-gâing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shizuoka-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sizuoka Koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sizuoka-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sizuoka-kōan”
- Northern Frisian: “Shizuoka (Prefektüür)”
- Northern Frisian: “Shizuoka”
- Northern Sami: “Shizuoka prefektuvra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shizuoka prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shizuoka prefektur”
- Norwegian: “Shizuoka”
- Novial: “Shizuoka Prefekture”
- Ossetian: “Сидзуокæ (префектурæ)”
- Ossetian: “Сидзуокæ”
- Persian: “استان شیزوئوکا”
- Polish: “Prefektura Shizuoka”
- Portuguese: “Prefeitura de Shizuoka”
- Portuguese: “Shizuoka”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Shizuoka”
- Romanian: “Shizuoka”
- Russian: “Сидзуока”
- Rusyn: “Сідзуока”
- Rusyn: “Шізуока”
- Scots: “Shizuoka Prefectur”
- Serbian: “Prefektura Šizuoka”
- Serbian: “Префектура Шизуока”
- Serbian: “Шизуока”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Shizuoka”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Šizuoka”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shizuoka”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šizuoka”
- Sinhala: “ශිසොකා ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Šizuoka”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Šizuoka”
- South Azerbaijani: “شیزوئوکا اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Shizuoka”
- Spanish: “Shizuoka Japon”
- Spanish: “Shizuoka Japón”
- Spanish: “Shizuoka”
- Sundanese: “Préféktur Shizuoka”
- Sundanese: “Shizuoka Prefecture”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Shizuoka”
- Swedish: “Shizuoka prefektur”
- Swedish: “Shizuoka”
- Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Shizuoka”
- Tagalog: “Prepekturang Shizuoka”
- Tagalog: “Prepekturang Syisuoka”
- Tagalog: “Shizuoka Prefecture”
- Tajik: “Prefekturai Şizuoka”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Сидзуока”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Шизуока”
- Tamil: “ஷிஸுஒக்கா ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுர்”
- Tatar: “Сидзуока (префектура)”
- Tatar: “Сидзуока”
- Telugu: “షిజువోకా ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดชิซึโอกะ”
- Thai: “จังหวัดชิซุโอกะ”
- Thai: “จังหวัดชิซูโอกะ”
- Turkish: “Shizuoka prefektörlüğü”
- Turkish: “Shizuoka”
- Turkish: “Şizuoka”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Сідзуока”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Шідзуока”
- Ukrainian: “Сідзуока”
- Urdu: “شیزوکا پریفیکچر”
- Vietnamese: “Shizuoka”
- Vietnamese: “Tĩnh Cương Huyện”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Shizuoka”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shizuoka Prefecture”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shizuoka”
- Welsh: “Shizuoka”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع شیزوکا”
- Wu Chinese: “静冈县”
- Yue Chinese: “静冈县”
- Yue Chinese: “靜岡”
- Yue Chinese: “靜岡縣”
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