English Wakayama Prefecture Map
For Japanese, it is not difficult to read and write the names of local government (cities, towns and villages). Also, if the name of the area is in the vicinity of where you live, you may have heard of many place names, such as station names, name of local governments, high school names. However, for foreigners, it is very difficult to understand how to read the names of regions in Japanese, as they are different from the normal way of reading them. In spite of the fact that it is difficult to read the Kanji itself.
So I created a English Wakayama Map with all the cities, towns, villages and areas listed on it in Kanji, Hiragana and Romaji, which should be very helpful for foreigners.
In Wakayama, there are 9 cities, 20 towns and 1 villages. In total 30 地方自治体 [CHIHOU JICHITAI] (ちほうじちたい) “local governments”.
*和歌山県 [Wakayama-ken] (わかやま けん) is one of the 都道府県 [To Do Fu Ken] (とどうふけん).
*都道府県 [To Do Fu Ken] (とどうふけん) consist of 47 prefectures. (43 県[Ken](けん) , 2 府 [Fu](ふ) “Urban prefectures”; Osaka Fu and Kyoto Fu, 1 道 [Dō] (どう) “Circuit/Territory”; Hokkai Dō and 1 都 [To] (と); Tokyo To.
*To know more detail information about Japanese addressing system, please refer to Wikipedia
県庁所在地:Prefectural Capital
和歌山市 [Wakayama-shi] (わかやま し)
WHERE IS 紀北 [KIHOKU] (きほく) area IN WAKAYAMA?
和歌山市 [Wakayama-shi] (わかやま し)
海南市 [Kainan-shi] (かいなん し)
岩出市 [Iwade-shi] (いわで し)
橋本市 [Hashimoto-shi] (はしもと し)
紀の川市 [Kinokawa-shi] (きのかわ し)
海草郡 [Kaiso-gun] (かいそう ぐん) 紀美野町 [Kimino-cho] (きみの ちょう)
伊都郡 [Ito-gun] (いと ぐん) かつらぎ町 [Katsuragi-cho] (かつらぎ ちょう)
伊都郡 [Ito-gun] (いと ぐん) 九度山町 [Kudoyama-cho] (くどやま ちょう)
伊都郡 [Ito-gun] (いと ぐん) 高野町 [Koya-cho] (こうや ちょう)
WHERE IS 紀中 [KICHU] (きちゅう) area IN WAKAYAMA?
有田市 [Arida-shi] (ありだ し)
有田郡 [Arida-gun] (ありだ ぐん) 湯浅町 [Yuasa-cho] (ゆあさ ちょう)
有田郡 [Arida-gun] (ありだ ぐん) 広川町 [Hirokawa-cho] (ひろかわ ちょう)
有田郡 [Arida-gun] (ありだ ぐん) 有田川町 [Aridagawa-cho] (ありだがわ ちょう)
御坊市 [Gobo-shi] (ごぼう し)
日高郡 [Hidaka-gun] (ひだか ぐん) 美浜町 [Mihama-cho] (みはま ちょう)
日高郡 [Hidaka-gun] (ひだか ぐん) 日高町 [Hidaka-cho] (ひだか ちょう)
日高郡 [Hidaka-gun] (ひだか ぐん) 由良町 [Yura-cho] (ゆら ちょう)
日高郡 [Hidaka-gun] (ひだか ぐん) 日高川町 [Hidakagawa-cho] (ひだかがわ ちょう)
日高郡 [Hidaka-gun] (ひだか ぐん) みなべ町 [Minabe-cho] (みなべ ちょう)
日高郡 [Hidaka-gun] (ひだか ぐん) 印南町 [Inami-cho] (いなみ ちょう)
WHERE IS 紀南 [KINAN] (きなん) area IN WAKAYAMA?
田辺市 [Tanabe-shi] (たなべ し)
西牟婁郡 [Nishi muro-gun] (にしむろ ぐん) 白浜町 [Shirahama-cho] (しらはま ちょう)
西牟婁郡 [Nishi muro-gun] (にしむろ ぐん) 上富田町 [Kamitonda-cho] (かみとんだ ちょう)
西牟婁郡 [Nishi muro-gun] (にしむろ ぐん) すさみ町 [Susami-cho] (すさみ ちょう)
新宮市 [Shingu-shi] (しんぐう し)
東牟婁郡 [Higashi muro-gun] (ひがしむろ ぐん) 串本町 [Kushimoto-cho] (くしもと ちょう)
東牟婁郡 [Higashi muro-gun] (ひがしむろ ぐん) 那智勝浦町 [Nachikatsuura-cho] (なちかつうら ちょう)
東牟婁郡 [Higashi muro-gun] (ひがしむろ ぐん) 太地町 [Taiji-cho] (たいじ ちょう)
東牟婁郡 [Higashi muro-gun] (ひがしむろ ぐん) 古座川町 [Kozagawa-cho] (こざがわ ちょう)
東牟婁郡 [Higashi muro-gun] (ひがしむろ ぐん) 北山村 [Kitayama-mura] (きたやま むら)