Convenience Stores

2020-11-24 | 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	2,991軒	56.97	79.25
2	Yamanashi	456軒	56.23	77.54
3	Tokyo	7,391軒	53.09	70.35
4	Miyagi	1,151軒	49.91	63.07
5	Ibaraki	1,425軒	49.83	62.86
6	Fukushima	889軒	48.16	59.04
7	Aomori	599軒	48.07	58.85
8	Aichi	3,624軒	47.99	58.65
9	Tochigi	916軒	47.36	57.22
10	Akita	454軒	47.00	56.38
11	Toyama	489軒	46.84	56.02
12	Gunma	900軒	46.34	54.88
13	Tottori	257軒	46.22	54.61
14	Shizuoka	1,672軒	45.88	53.83
15	Nagano	928軒	45.29	52.47
16	Oita	514軒	45.29	52.46
17	Fukuoka	2,300軒	45.06	51.95
18	Osaka	3,966軒	45.02	51.85
19	Ishikawa	511軒	44.90	51.58
20	Kumamoto	780軒	44.62	50.93
21	Saga	363軒	44.54	50.75
22	Tokushima	323軒	44.37	50.35
23	Mie	785軒	44.08	49.68
24	Fukui	337軒	43.88	49.23
25	Iwate	535軒	43.60	48.60
26	Hiroshima	1,220軒	43.51	48.38
27	Ehime	582軒	43.47	48.28
28	Gifu	850軒	42.78	46.71
29	Chiba	2,676軒	42.75	46.65
30	Shimane	286軒	42.43	45.92
31	Kagawa	404軒	42.26	45.52
32	Okinawa	612軒	42.12	45.20
33	Okayama	792軒	41.91	44.71
34	Yamaguchi	565軒	41.61	44.02
35	Kyoto	1,073軒	41.54	43.87
36	Yamagata	446軒	41.37	43.49
37	Kagoshima	662軒	41.32	43.37
38	Kochi	286軒	40.97	42.57
39	Kanagawa	3,753軒	40.80	42.18
40	Niigata	891軒	40.08	40.52
41	Nagasaki	527軒	39.71	39.68
42	Miyazaki	425軒	39.61	39.44
43	Saitama	2,911軒	39.61	39.43
44	Wakayama	366軒	39.57	39.35
45	Shiga	558軒	39.46	39.11
46	Hyogo	1,987軒	36.35	31.97
47	Nara	456軒	34.29	27.24
	Japan	56,884軒	45.09