Japan Prefecture Code Lookup

• JIS X 0401: To−Do−Fu−Ken (Prefecture) Identification Code
• Reverse Geocoding: Japan Integrated Grid Square (10km accuracy)
• Standalone: jp-pref-lookup.min.js is just 20KB minified, 6KB gzipped

Synopsis

const {Pref} = require("jp-pref-lookup");

// by pair of latitude and longitude
console.log(Pref.lookup({lat: 35.68944, lng: 139.69167})); // => ["13"]

// by comma separated latitude and longitude
console.log(Pref.lookup({ll: "35.3606,138.7278"})); // => ["22", "19"]

// name for prefecture code
console.log(Pref.name("13")); // => "東京都"
console.log(Pref.name(27)); // => "大阪府"

// prefecture code for name
console.log(Pref.code("東京都")); // => "13"
console.log(Pref.code("大阪")); // => "27"

Browser

• This works with Geolocation API on Web browsers.

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jp-pref-lookup/dist/jp-pref-lookup.min.js"></script>
<script>
  navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position) {
    var ll = position.coords.latitude + "," + position.coords.longitude;
    var array = Pref.lookup({ll: ll});
    var name = array && Pref.name(array[0]);
    alert(name);
  });
</script>

GitHub

• https://github.com/kawanet/jp-pref-lookup

Reference

• 出典：「市区町村別メッシュ・コード一覧」（総務省統計局） licensed under CC BY 4.0
• https://www.stat.go.jp/data/mesh/m_itiran.html
• https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/mesh/05-1s.html
• https://github.com/jp-mirror/jp-data-mesh-csv

See Also

• https://kikakurui.com/x0/X0401-1973-01.html
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/jp-pref-lookup
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/jp-city-lookup
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/jp-zipcode-lookup

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