List of municipal flags of Chūbu region

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List of Japanese municipal flags
Hokkaidō	Tōhoku	Kantō	Chūbu	Kansai	Chūgoku	Shikoku	Kyūshū

Contents 1  Niigata Prefecture 2  Toyama Prefecture 3  Ishikawa Prefecture 4  Fukui Prefecture 5  Yamanashi Prefecture 6  Nagano Prefecture 7  Gifu Prefecture 8  Shizuoka Prefecture 9  Aichi Prefecture 10  Mie Prefecture

[edit]  Niigata Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Itoigawa	The kanji 糸 (ito).
	Jōetsu	The kanji 上 (jō).
	Kashiwazaki	Musubigashiwa, or the binded Daimyo Oak (kashiwa) leaves, surrounded by ocean waves.
	Murakami	The hiragana む (mu).
	Nagaoka	The symbol represents a phoenix. It also looks like the kanji 長 (naga), although it's not officially explained as such. The city name in kanji is on the lower part. There is also the simplified flag without the name and the gold fringe.
	Niigata	The kanji 五 ("five") surrounded by an anchor, as the city was one of the five Japanese ports to be opened in 1859. The upper disc is snow.
	Sado	The letter S, representing a Crested Ibis, as well as the map of the island.
	Sanjō	The kanji 三條 (Sanjō), the city name in the former spelling.
	Shibata	Originally the symbol used by the Mizokuchi clan of the Shibata Domain.
	Tsubame	The hiragana つ (tsu), representing a swallow (tsubame).

[edit]  Toyama Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Imizu	The hiragana い (i), representing the Sea of Japan.
	Kurobe	The letter K.
	Takaoka	The kanji 高 (taka).
	Toyama	The symbol is based on the one used by the Toyama Domain. The inside is the kanji 富 (to).

[edit]  Ishikawa Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Hakusan	Mount Hakusan with the Tedori River and the Sea of Japan.
	Kanazawa	The kanji 金 (kana). The outline is ume (plum), the Maeda clan symbol.
	Komatsu	The kanji 小 (ko) representing pine (matsu) leaves.
	Suzu	The katakana スス (susu). ス (su) becomes ズ (zu) when written with dakuten.
	Wajima	The katakana ワジマ (Wajima).

[edit]  Fukui Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Fukui	The kanji 井 (i) of Fukui, and 北 (kita) of Kitanoshō, the former name of the city.
	Obama	The kanji 小 (o), representing wings.
	Sakai	The letter S, representing the Sea of Japan and the Sakai Plain.
	Tsuruga	The circle represents the port, and the upper triangle represents a lighthouse. The lower triangle is Tsunugaarashito, a figure appeared on Nihon Shoki. According to the legend, he had a horn (tsuno) from his forehead, and named the city Tsunoga.

[edit]  Yamanashi Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Fujiyoshida	Mount Fuji and the kanji 吉 (yoshi).
	Kōfu	The lozenge, based on the Takeda clan symbol. The inside is the kanji 甲 (kō), as well as 本 (hon, "root"). From its meaning, 本 leads to 府 (fu, "city").
	Ōtsuki	The kanji 大 (ō). The circle inside represents the Moon (tsuki).

[edit]  Nagano Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Azumino	安 (an), the first kanji of 安曇野 (Azumino).
	Iida	The hiragana い (i) and the kanji 田 (da).
	Iiyama	The hiragana いいやま (Iiyama).
	Ina	The symbol represents the Japanese Alps and sakura (cherry blossom), with the Mibu River and the Tenryū River.
	Karuizawa	The hiragana か (ka), symbolizing a flying bird.
	Matsumoto	The circle represents a pine (matsu). The inside is the kanji 本 (moto).
	Nagano	The kanji 長 (naga).
	Ōmachi	The kanji 大 (ō), representing a mountain of the Japanese Alps.
	Saku	The hiragana さ (sa), representing a flying bird.
	Suwa	The katakana スワ (Suwa) representing the Peng.

[edit]  Gifu Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Gifu	The kanji 井 (i) of Inokuchi, the former name of the city.
	Kakamigahara	各 (kaku), the first kanji of 各務原 (Kakamigahara).
	Kani	The kanji 可 (ka).
	Ōgaki	The kanji 大 (ō). It also represents a hull of persimmon, as the former name of the city was 大柿 (Ōgaki), literally "Big Persimmon".
	Seki	The katakana セキ (Seki).
	Tajimi	The kanji 多 (ta) over Chinese bellflower.
	Takayama	岳 ("mountain") in the seal script kanji, as the city is close to mountains.

[edit]  Shizuoka Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Atami	A map symbol of hot spring. The outline represents an ume (plum) as well as ocean waves.
	Fuji	Mount Fuji with the three lines, representing the three municipalities merged in 1966 to form the current city.
	Fujieda	The municipal flower of wisteria (fuji). The flag may have a fringe.
	Fujinomiya	The kanji 宮 (miya), surrounded by sakura (cherry blossom) shaped Mount Fuji.
	Gotenba	The letter G. The triangle represents Mount Fuji, and the circle represents Mount Hakone.
	Hamamatsu	The map of the city facing the Pacific Ocean and the Lake Hamana.
	Itō	Ten (tō) of the hiragana い (i), representing the Sun.
	Iwata	The hiragana い (i).
	Kakegawa	The letter K, symbolizing Chinese bellflower.
	Mishima	The kanji 三 (mi) symbolizing a flow of water, under Mount Fuji. The octagon shape is from the emblem of Mishima Taisha shrine.
	Numazu	The katakana ヌ (nu) with pine leaves.
	Shimada	The letter S.
	Shimoda	The four kanji 下 (shimo) and the kanji 田 (ta) in the center, making the rebus of 下田 (Shimoda).
	Shizuoka	The letter S, representing the map of the city, incorporating Mount Fuji and Suruga Bay.
	Yaizu	The katakana ヤイヅ (Yaizu).

[edit]  Aichi Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Anjō	The kanji 安 (an).
	Gamagōri	The symbol is originally used by the Takenoya Matsudaira clan.
	Handa	The kanji 半田 (Handa).
	Ichinomiya	The symbol represents a goreikyō (mirror with five bells), an ancient ritual article found in a local shrine.
	Inazawa	The hiragana い (i).
	Inuyama	The circled kanji 一 (one, ichi), the symbol originally used by the Inuyama Domain.
	Kariya	The 8, representing a goose. In Japanese, "goose" is kari and "eight" is ya.
	Kasugai	The outline is a sakura (cherry blossom) symbolizing spring (春 haru), the circle is the Sun (日 hi), and the square is the kanji 井 (i), making the rebus of 春日井 (Kasugai).
	Komaki	The katakana コマキ (Komaki), symbolizing an airplane engine.
	Kōnan	The katakana コウナン (Kōnan).
	Nagoya	The maruhachi, or the circled 八 (eight, hachi), is the symbol originally used by the Tokugawa-Owari family of the Owari Domain.
	Nishio	Originally the symbol used by the Ogyū Matsudaira clan who resided in the Nishio Castle.
	Okazaki	The kanji 岡 (oka) in the center. The outer parts show dragon's claws holding a sacred gem, as the Okazaki Castle was alternatively called Ryūgajō, literally "the Dragon Castle".
	Seto	A pot with the kanji 土 (soil, tsuchi), representing a pottery industry of the city.
	Tōkai	The hiragana とう (tō).
	Toyohashi	The traditional mon symbolizes a cotton reel (千切, chigiri?), making a pun of "bond" (契り, chigiri?). The symbol was originally used by the Ōkōchi clan of the Yoshida Domain.
	Toyokawa	The four (yo) katakana ト (to) surrounding the kanji 川 (kawa).
	Toyota	The kanji 衣 ("clothes"), representing the former main industry of the city. The lozenge is the symbol originally used by the Naitō clan of the Koromo Domain.

[edit]  Mie Prefecture

See: List of municipal flags of Kansai region