Convenience Stores

2019-7-11 | Lifestyle |

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Total number of convenience stores, based on the number of convenience stores in each prefecture listed in the Town Pages (telephone directory) under "convenience stores."

Hokkaido is ranked first. Hokkaido, the homeground of Seicomart, is known as a competitive convenience store market, which is backed by data.

A question was posted on Yahoo!'s "Chiebukuro" (Yahoo! Answers) with respect to the great number of convenience stores in Hokkaido and the following was chosen as the best answer:
"With respect to Hokkaido, it is understandable because convenience stores function as the shopping stores of each area."
It may be that convenience stores are used for different purposes compared to Honshu.

Prefectures in eastern Japan are ranked high, creating a typical "high east, low west" distribution.

While there are urban areas such as Tokyo with many convenience stores, there are urban areas such as Osaka with few convenience stores. Likewise, there are rural areas with many convenience stores and rural areas with few convenience stores. It seems that the difference in lifestyle between urban areas and rural areas is irrelevant to the number of convenience stores.

It may be that people in eastern Japan simply like convenience stores.

CONVENIENCE STORES

Rank	Prefectures	Convenience Stores		Standard Score
Rank	Prefectures	Amount	per 100000 Population	Standard Score
Sort	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc
1	Hokkaido	3,007軒	56.52	78.74
2	Yamanashi	462軒	56.14	77.86
3	Tokyo	7,399軒	53.91	72.82
4	Ibaraki	1,428軒	49.38	62.54
5	Miyagi	1,142軒	49.16	62.05
6	Aichi	3,609軒	47.96	59.33
7	Toyama	504軒	47.73	58.80
8	Fukushima	885軒	47.02	57.20
9	Gunma	915軒	46.68	56.43
10	Aomori	593軒	46.40	55.79
11	Tochigi	908軒	46.40	55.78
12	Akita	462軒	46.39	55.76
13	Shizuoka	1,683軒	45.80	54.42
14	Nagano	942軒	45.38	53.47
15	Tottori	256軒	45.31	53.32
16	Osaka	3,977軒	45.08	52.78
17	Fukuoka	2,298軒	45.00	52.61
18	Saga	367軒	44.54	51.57
19	Oita	511軒	44.36	51.16
20	Mie	794軒	44.11	50.60
21	Tokushima	327軒	44.01	50.37
22	Ishikawa	504軒	43.94	50.21
23	Fukui	339軒	43.52	49.25
24	Iwate	544軒	43.35	48.87
25	Kumamoto	765軒	43.34	48.86
26	Hiroshima	1,218軒	43.05	48.20
27	Chiba	2,689軒	43.05	48.20
28	Ehime	587軒	43.04	48.16
29	Shimane	293軒	42.77	47.57
30	Gifu	847軒	42.18	46.22
31	Kagawa	405軒	41.88	45.55
32	Kagoshima	677軒	41.64	44.99
33	Kyoto	1,079軒	41.52	44.72
34	Kanagawa	3,775軒	41.22	44.04
35	Yamaguchi	569軒	41.14	43.87
36	Okayama	781軒	40.95	43.44
37	Yamagata	447軒	40.56	42.55
38	Saitama	2,924軒	40.00	41.28
39	Kochi	285軒	39.92	41.09
40	Shiga	562軒	39.77	40.77
41	Okinawa	572軒	39.64	40.46
42	Niigata	895軒	39.48	40.10
43	Miyazaki	429軒	39.39	39.90
44	Nagasaki	528軒	39.00	39.00
45	Wakayama	367軒	38.84	38.64
46	Hyogo	2,018軒	36.67	33.73
47	Nara	454軒	33.68	26.95
	Japan	56,936軒	44.94