List of municipal flags of Tōhoku region

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

Contents 1  Aomori Prefecture 2  Iwate Prefecture 3  Miyagi Prefecture 4  Akita Prefecture 5  Yamagata Prefecture 6  Fukushima Prefecture

[edit]  Aomori Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Aomori	The kanji 青 (ao), symbolizing the Big Dipper.
	Hachinohe	The kanji 八戸 (Hachinohe), symbolizing a crane.
	Hirosaki	The swastika, originally used by the Tsugaru clan of the Hirosaki Domain.
	Misawa	The three (mi) katakana サ (sa) making a ring (wa). The Y-shaped objects are pine leaves. The simplified flag may omit the gold fringe.
	Mutsu	The hiragana むつ (Mutsu).

[edit]  Iwate Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Hanamaki	A flower, hana in Japanese. The four petals represent the four municipalities merged in 2006 to form the current city.
	Ichinoseki	The hiragana い (i).
	Kamaishi	The katakana カマ (kama), surrounded by the four (shi) katakana イ (i). The symbol represents breakwater as well as iron. There are apparently two versions of the flag colors, one with the white symbol on the light blue background, another with the red symbol on the white background.
	Kitakami	The kanji 北 (kita).
	Kuji	The letter K.
	Miyako	The kanji 宮古 (Miyako). There are apparently two versions of the flag colors, one with the white symbol on the light blue background, another with the black symbol on the white background.
	Morioka	The lozenges, originally used as the Morioka Domain symbol.
	Ninohe	The katakana ニノヘ (Ninohe).
	Ōfunato	The kanji 大 (ō).
	Ōshū	The letters O and S, as well as 奥 (oku), the first kanji of 奥州 (Ōshū).
	Tōno	The hiragana と (to).

[edit]  Miyagi Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Ishinomaki	The kanji 石 (ishi).
	Kesennuma	The hiragana け (ke).
	Ōsaki	The hiragana お (o).
	Sendai	The kanji 仙 (sen).

[edit]  Akita Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Akita	The kanji 田 (ta), symbolizing arrows. "The Arrow" was the alternative name of the Akita Castle.
	Daisen	The letter D, symbolizing the Peng.
	Noshiro	The hiragana のしろ (Noshiro), representing the Sea of Japan and Shirakami Mountains.
	Ōdate	The kanji 大 (ō) over a shield. "Shield" in Japanese is tate, which sounds close to date.
	Ōgata	The katakana オ (o).
	Yokote	The hiragana よ (yo) and the letter Y representing Yokote, and the hiragana ひ (hi) representing the former Hiraka District.
	Yurihonjō	The kanji 由 (yu) and 本 (hon), representing lily flower, lily bulb, and gotenmari, a local varitey of temari ball.

[edit]  Yamagata Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Sakata	The letter S, representing the Mogami River.
	Tsuruoka	The symbol represents a flying crane.
	Yamagata	The kanji 山 yama.
	Yonezawa	Due to the great fire of the city in 1919, the documents explaining the symbol were lost. It is estimated that the symbol is the kanji 米 (yone) representing sakura (cherry blossom).

[edit]  Fukushima Prefecture

Flag	Municipality	Description
	Aizuwakamatsu	The kanji 會 (ai). The letter was used as the Aizu Domain symbol.
	Fukushima	The nine (ku) katakana フ (fu) and the four (shi) katakana マ (ma), making the rebus of Fukushima.
	Iwaki	The hiragana い (i).
	Kitakata	The kanji 喜 (ki) in its variant form ( 㐂). Five symbols represent the five municipalities merged in 2006 to form the current city.
	Kōriyama	The kanji 山 (yama).