What's Your Favourite Prefecture?
 

So everyone, out of all the Prefectures in Japan, which is your favourite? Try not to base it on one town/city, consider the Prefecture as a whole :mtongue:

Also it'd probably be best to keep it to Prefectures you've actually been to and experienced, rather than ones you just think look the best :D

If you have time, be sure to include why you like it!

For me, it has to be Kanagawa Prefecture. I've been to a few places in Kanagawa, both urban and rural. I consider it the Prefecture I'm most familiar with inside out. From my experiences in the places I have been to, I really want to explore Kanagawa further! I'm thinking of having it as my base on my next visit :)

I find this place so beautiful, and it has a magnificent style. I was never bored there every time I went. Believe it or not, out of all the times I went to Kamakura, I never visited the Daibutsu, not even once! And it's considered one of the biggest attractions there! Yet I was too busy with all the other fascinating spots of Kamakura to have any time to go there. :cool:
I think I spent as much as 3 straight hours at a shrine one time because I was in so much awe at its beauty!

Well it's where I wanted to stay for my first trip and that would be Shinjuku, I sorta knew what to expect but found dozens of things I wouldn't have thought of

When I go back I'm hitting it again.

fav pref.
 

Nagano with its natural beauty majestic mountains and lovely towns.

I really fell in love with the natural beauty of Aomori-ken....

Ahh that's a place I really like the look of!
I saw it on a travel show once while there was a festival going on up there, and it looks such a great place. :P

You've got some great pics there :D
While I was in Tokyo I didn't really have much opportunity to explore Shinjuku, but I went up this really tall skyscraper there and went into an Italian restaurant at the top, where I ate some pizza with a magnificent view of the entire city! :)

Tons of Italian places there, and I had the best garlic bread I've eaten in my hotel who knew :)

I also picked it because I knew if I got hopelessly lost, anyone would know how to get to Shinjuku station ;)

Now getting out of Shinkuju station on the other hand and at the right exit ... :D

Surprisingly I only saw the one at the top of the skyscraper, but as I mentioned that's probably because it was the only place I had time for in Shinjuku. XD

And yeah it was a lovely pizza :D

Woah, don't even get me started on how I had to get out of that station! THAT'S what took up most of my time there! The exit was like its very own district with how big it was! XD

hmm...

I'd have to say Osaka, mostly because it's right next to Kyoto and Wakayama, so you can hit up the temples and party life in Kyoto, and the beaches in Wakayama...
And the people in Osaka are way more fun than those in other prefectures, imo..

I've heard a lot of people like to make Osaka their base for that reason of the location.
Yeah and they have their own dialect which is a pretty cool difference from other Northern cities like Tokyo. :D

Excuse me but Shinjuku is not a prefecture, which is the thread is about. It's just a section of Tokyo.

Kanagawa-ken is where my parents were raised and where most of my relatives reside so I have a special bond with that prefecture. Especially the city of Yokohama.

However, I'm dying to check out Hokkaido some day. I have a feeling that I'll really like it up there. Especially looking forward to checking out Susukino.

I LOVE kansai ben!! It's like Japanese with spunk :P

I have to say Wakayama! It was my home for 2 years, and has some great scenery. Nara-ken was very interesting too, though!

natural beauty of Aomori-ken

That sounds amazing! I'm very jealous right now XD
I'd love to have In-Laws in Kanagawa more than anything :p
You're one lucky person!

The most I've heard of Hokkaido is that it's a snowboarder/skier paradise, and that it has many hot springs. And of course, the snow festival :)

XD
I remember my tutor telling me that if I included some Kansai-ben when speaking with a Tokyoite, they'd think I was very cool :cool:

Because you WOULD be!!
(Tokyoite -> Kantojin / Kantonohito)

It is certainly a skiers paradise and there's lots of hot springs but of course it is so much more. We have a bit of a saying at the ski resort I work at, most of us came here for the snow but most of us end up living here for the summer. Hokkaido in summer is amazing. So much more to do than in winter and the weather is nowhere near as hot and humid as down south and we don't really get a rainy season. Magnificent mountains, forests, lakes, rivers, coastline and beaches. A beautiful place to visit and to live. The autumn is also great and probably my favourite time of year with the forests turning incredible colours and the peaks of the mountains getting their first snow.

Are you kidding? Each time I visit, they're always stuffing me with food, getting me drunk and introducing me to every single female within a 3 block radius! Who wants that? :D

No, unfortunately that is just a ward in Tokyo.

What do you like about Shibuya? Where is your favorite place?

I saw a good Travel Report on Fukuoka before on FlyerTalk Forums. It looks like a very beautiful city. :)