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Rice production by prefecture

Niigata Prefecture grows or catches the most rice in Japan: 622,800 t, 8.5% of the national total. Next come Hokkaido and Akita Prefecture.

Rice output by prefecture (MAFF, 2024)
Rank	Prefecture	Output (t)	Share
#1	Niigata Prefecture	622,800	8.5%
#2	Hokkaido	562,400	7.7%
#3	Akita Prefecture	490,000	6.7%
#4	Miyagi Prefecture	366,100	5.0%
#5	Fukushima Prefecture	356,800	4.9%
#6	Yamagata Prefecture	354,500	4.8%
#7	Ibaraki Prefecture	338,800	4.6%
#8	Chiba Prefecture	287,900	3.9%
#9	Tochigi Prefecture	286,200	3.9%
#10	Aomori Prefecture	264,200	3.6%
#11	Iwate Prefecture	258,900	3.5%
#12	Toyama Prefecture	189,000	2.6%
#13	Nagano Prefecture	187,900	2.6%
#14	Hyogo Prefecture	166,900	2.3%
#15	Kumamoto Prefecture	153,300	2.1%
#16	Fukuoka Prefecture	152,200	2.1%
#17	Shiga Prefecture	146,800	2.0%
#18	Okayama Prefecture	142,800	1.9%
#19	Saitama Prefecture	140,900	1.9%
#20	Aichi Prefecture	130,200	1.8%
#21	Fukui Prefecture	124,800	1.7%
#22	Mie Prefecture	120,800	1.6%
#23	Ishikawa Prefecture	116,200	1.6%
#24	Saga Prefecture	113,100	1.5%
#25	Hiroshima Prefecture	108,400	1.5%
#26	Gifu Prefecture	101,900	1.4%
#27	Oita Prefecture	88,400	1.2%
#28	Yamaguchi Prefecture	86,200	1.2%
#29	Kagoshima Prefecture	80,400	1.1%
#30	Shimane Prefecture	80,300	1.1%
#31	Kyoto	71,700	1.0%
#32	Gunma Prefecture	71,400	1.0%
#33	Shizuoka Prefecture	70,200	1.0%
#34	Miyazaki Prefecture	69,700	0.9%
#35	Ehime Prefecture	63,800	0.9%
#36	Tottori Prefecture	59,200	0.8%
#37	Kagawa Prefecture	48,200	0.7%
#38	Kochi Prefecture	46,700	0.6%
#39	Tokushima Prefecture	46,500	0.6%
#40	Nagasaki Prefecture	45,900	0.6%
#41	Nara Prefecture	42,100	0.6%
#42	Wakayama Prefecture	28,700	0.4%
#43	Yamanashi Prefecture	25,000	0.3%
#44	Osaka	20,700	0.3%
#45	Kanagawa Prefecture	13,700	0.2%
#46	Okinawa Prefecture	1,950	0.0%
#47	Tokyo	443	0.0%
—	Japan total	7,345,000	100%

Source: MAFF, Crop Statistics Survey / Marine Fishery Production Statistics (e-Stat, 2024 final). Aquaculture counts harvested output.

EAT

Who eats the most?

The city that buys the most is Fukushima (Fukushima Prefecture), at 1.4× the national average per household. The prefecture that grows it most and the one that buys it most are different.

Q&A

Common questions

Which prefecture produces the most rice in Japan?

Niigata Prefecture, with 622,800 t (8.5% of the national total) in 2024, according to Japan's Ministry of Agriculture.

Where in Japan do people buy the most rice?

Fukushima (Fukushima Prefecture) households buy 1.4× the national average (Statistics Bureau of Japan, 2023–2025 average).

Rice production by prefecture

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