Who Likes Chocolate? Chocolate Consumption Ranking by City in Japan
The below shows the yearly amount of purchased chocolate per capita by city in Japan. Unit is gram. It is the average figure from 2011 to 2013. The survey was conducted by the Japanese government and target people were families which consist of more than two members. So this data does not include single households.
City | Purchased amout (yen) |
Average | 4,554 |
Kanazawa | 6,317 |
Tottori | 5,475 |
Utsunomiya | 5,474 |
Nara | 5,466 |
Toyama | 5,409 |
Yamaguchi | 5,376 |
Kochi | 5,257 |
Yamagata | 5,249 |
Kagoshima | 5,150 |
Sapporo | 5,145 |
Kawasaki | 5,115 |
Tokyo | 5,070 |
Nagano | 5,063 |
Hiroshima | 5,030 |
Kyoto | 5,027 |
Takamatsu | 5,017 |
Oita | 4,960 |
Hamamatsu | 4,933 |
Matsuyama | 4,891 |
Gifu | 4,885 |
Fukui | 4,831 |
Niigata | 4,822 |
Saitama | 4,819 |
Fukushima | 4,770 |
Sendai | 4,735 |
Tsu | 4,712 |
Chiba | 4,678 |
Shizuoka | 4,637 |
Kobe | 4,627 |
Nagoya | 4,627 |
Mito | 4,586 |
Kofu | 4,582 |
Akita | 4,554 |
Yokohama | 4,551 |
Otsu | 4,522 |
Saga | 4,491 |
Maebashi | 4,469 |
Miyazaki | 4,368 |
Okayama | 4,334 |
Morioka | 4,267 |
Matsue | 4,169 |
Tokushima | 4,159 |
Wakayama | 4,153 |
Kumamoto | 4,101 |
Naha | 4,065 |
Nagasaki | 3,862 |
Kitakyushu | 3,846 |
Osaka | 3,831 |
Sakai | 3,804 |
Aomori | 3,615 |
Fukuoka | 3,611 |
Kanazawa is outstanding among the cities.
I do not know the reason.
If it excludes Kanazawa, the color map is like the below.
It seems there is no geographical trend in chocolate consumption.
Source is Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
www.stat.go.jp/data/kakei/zuhyou/rank09.xls
www.stat.go.jp/data/kakei/5.htm
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