Flag of Shizuoka
Officially Shizuoka Prefecture
Locally Shizuoka-ken · 静岡県
What the flag looks like
An orange emblem edged in white on a blue field: the outline of the prefecture shaped into Mount Fuji.
What it means
The emblem simplifies Mount Fuji, the Izu Peninsula, Suruga Bay and Cape Omaezaki into one shape; blue is the sky and the Pacific, orange the sunshine and the people's passion.
How to remember it
Shizuoka's
orange emblem on blue is its own coastline bent into the shape of Mount Fuji.
Fun facts
- Shizuoka is one of Japan's biggest green tea growers.
- Tokugawa Ieyasu spent his retirement at Sunpu Castle, in today's Shizuoka City.
Shizuoka at a glance
- Type
- Prefecture (ken)
- Island
- Honshū
- Capital
- Shizuoka
- Region
- Chūbu
- Population
- 3.5 million
- Area
- 7,777 km²
- Languages
- Japanese
- Currency
- Japanese yen (¥)
- Flag adopted
- 1968