The hiragana cities of Japan are municipalities whose names are written in hiragana rather than kanji as is traditional for Japanese place names. Many hiragana city names have kanji equivalents that are either phonetic manyōgana, or whose kanji are now obsolete. Others, such as Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture, are taken from localities or landmarks whose names continue to be written in kanji.
List of fully Hiragana cities and towns
List of partially Hiragana cities
City / Town | Hiragana + Kanji | Full kanji | Prefecture |
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Akiruno | あきる野市 | 秋留野、阿伎留野 | Tokyo |
Ichikikushikino | いちき串木野市 | 市来串木野 | Kagoshima |
Higashikagawa | 東かがわ市 | 東香川 | Kagawa |
Higashimiyoshi | 東みよし町 | 東三好 | Tokushima |
Kinokawa | 紀の川市 | 紀之川 | Wakayama |
Minamiawaji | 南あわじ市 | 南淡路 | Hyōgo |
Izunokuni | 伊豆の国市 | 伊豆之国 | Shizuoka |
Fujimino | ふじみ野市 | 富士見野 | Saitama |
List of Katakana cities
Romanized | Katakana + Kanji | Prefecture | Remarks |
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Niseko | ニセコ町 | Hokkaidō | from Ainu |
Minamiarupusu | 南アルプス市 | Yamanashi | from "Japanese Alps" |
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