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Places worth the detour in Shizuoka Prefecture

Detourmap lists 52 places in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Mount Fuji. 37 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature33 Archaeological19
Places
52
Oldest
Takaosan Kofun 230
Little known
37 of 52
Share of Japan
4%

Shizuoka Prefecture 52

All 52, best known first.

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Shizuoka Prefecture?

Mount Fuji. Volcano in Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures, Japan. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Shizuoka Prefecture?

52: 33 nature & landscapes and 19 archaeological & historic sites. 37 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Shizuoka Prefecture?

Takaosan Kofun, dated to 230. 11 of the 52 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Shizuoka Prefecture here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Shizuoka Prefecture if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Shizuoka Prefecture is a first-level division of Japan, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.