Japanese prefectures with JIS codes and e-Stat area codes

The 47 Japanese prefectures (都道府県) with their JIS X 0401 codes and English/Japanese names, for joining and filtering e-Stat area codes without another API round-trip. The e-Stat whole-prefecture area code is the 2-digit JIS code followed by "000" (e.g. Tokyo = "13000").

Usage

prefectures

Format

A tibble with 47 rows and 5 columns:

code: 2-digit JIS X 0401 prefecture code, e.g. "13".
area_code: 5-digit e-Stat area code for the whole prefecture, e.g. "13000".
name_en: English (romaji) prefecture name, e.g. "Tokyo".
name_ja: Japanese prefecture name, e.g. "東京都".
region_en: English region name, e.g. "Kanto".

Source

JIS X 0401 (Japanese Industrial Standard) prefecture codes.

Examples

head(prefectures)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 5
#>   code  area_code name_en  name_ja region_en
#>   <chr> <chr>     <chr>    <chr>   <chr>    
#> 1 01    01000     Hokkaido 北海道  Hokkaido 
#> 2 02    02000     Aomori   青森県  Tohoku   
#> 3 03    03000     Iwate    岩手県  Tohoku   
#> 4 04    04000     Miyagi   宮城県  Tohoku   
#> 5 05    05000     Akita    秋田県  Tohoku   
#> 6 06    06000     Yamagata 山形県  Tohoku   
# Join onto a get_estat() result by area_code to add English names