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October 23, 2017

Japanese Car Plates

About Japanese Car Number Plates

Cars in Japan have license plates. In Japanese they are called namba- pure-to.

The top left has a screw.  Next to the screw is the ken (prefecture)’s name. In this case 福井 fukui .  According to Dean, a surfer kind enough to drop me a note, the numbers to the right may be the class of vehicle, small car, big car, taxi, truck, etc. for example, in Osaka, a taxi is 500.

The bottom left has a hiragana, in this case み .  This along with the numbers to the right are the car’s number.    

  • There are two main types – Yellow plates (as above) and White plates.
  • YELLOW PLATES – smaller cars (called 軽自動車 kei ji dou sha in Japanese) 
  • WHITE PLATES – bigger cars 
  • Needless to say, Yellow plates are much cheaper than White plates.  shaken is also much cheaper.  ( shaken is the mandatory car inspection one must do every two years.)

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