Video Arcades

Number of video arcades from the National Police Agency's statistics. The numbers indicated in the NPA's statistics are the numbers of game parlors reported to the NPA based on the Act on Control and Improvement of Amusement Business, etc. and include video arcades in addition to eating facilities, etc. with arcade games combined. This ranking is based on the total number of video arcades only. Please refer to the number of Game Parlors for the ranking on both video arcades and combined facilities.

Although there are game corners in some shopping centers and bowling alleys, because it is not necessary to report to the NPA if the area of the game corner is 10% or less of the entire store, they are not included in this data.

There are 4,650 video arcades in Japan which is 3.64 per 100 thousand population. The greatest is in Okinawa, with 10.42 per 100 thousand population, which is 3 times the national average. Okinawa has the greatest number of game parlors with eating facilities, as well as video arcades only. Okinawa can be referred to as the arcade kingdom. Tokyo is ranked second, with 6.33 per 100 thousand population. Tokyo is followed by Tochigi, Mie and Kagawa.

Regionally, there seem to be many video arcades in the central area of Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku, and fewer in the Chugoku and Tohoku areas and Hokkaido.

The correlative ranking shows that it is highly correlated with the number of American Residents in Japan in Japan. This is believed to be because Okinawa and Tokyo where there are many American residents, are ranked high.