Villages of Japan

Villages of Japan

A nihongo|village|村|mura|sometimes "son" is a local administrative unit in Japan.

It is a local public body along with nihongo|prefecture|県|ken|or other equivalents, nihongo|city|市|shi, and nihongo|town|町|chō|sometimes "machi". Geographically, a village's extent is contained within a prefecture.

It is larger than an actual settlement, being in actuality a subdivision of a rural nihongo|district|郡|gun, which are subdivided into towns and villages with no overlap and no uncovered area.

As a result of mergers, the number of villages in Japan is decreasing.


= Prefectures without villages =

(As of April 1, 2008)
*Ehime (several recent mergers, the last of which was on January 16, 2005)
*Fukui
*Hyōgo
*Hiroshima
*Ishikawa
*Kagawa
*Mie
*Nagasaki
*Saga
*Shiga (the village of Kutsuki merged with several other towns to form the new city of Takashima on January 1, 2005)
*Shizuoka
*Tochigi
*Yamaguchi

Only Hyōgo and Kagawa prefectures had no villages from before the Heisei mergers.

Prefectures with exactly one village

(As of April 1, 2008)
*Kanagawa (Kiyokawa, Aikō District)
*Kyōto (Minamiyamashiro, Soraku District)
*Miyagi (Ōhira, Kurokawa District)
*Ōita (Himeshima, Higashikunisaki District)
*Ōsaka (Chihayaakasaka, Minamikawachi District)
*Saitama (Higashichichibu, Chichibu District)
*Shimane (Chibu, Oki District)
*Tokushima (Sanagōchi, Myōdō District)
*Tottori (Hiezu, Saihaku District)
*Toyama (Funahashi, Nakaniikawa District)
*Wakayama (Kitayama, Higashimuro District)

ee also

*Municipalities of Japan
*Japanese addressing system
*Edo period village


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