Number of Temples in Japan, 2013

Total 77,394 temples are registered on Agency for Cultural Affairs as of 2013 January 1st. Interestingly the number of temples is less than shrines'. Personally speaking, I thought the number of temples is larger than shrines'.
The number of temples per population is high in Shiga and Fukui (central Japan). Okinawa has different culture and does not have many temples.

Figure : Number of Temples per Population by Prefecture , 2013

Prefecture	Number of Temples	Population (x 1000)	Rate per 10,000 residents
Shiga	3,215	1416	22.7
Fukui	1,697	795	21.3
Shimane	1,321	702	18.8
Yamanashi	1,495	847	17.7
Wakayama	1,594	979	16.3
Toyama	1,612	1076	15.0
Nara	1,823	1383	13.2
Yamagata	1,487	1141	13.0
Saga	1,085	840	12.9
Mie	2,346	1833	12.8
Niigata	2,807	2330	12.0
Ishikawa	1,388	1159	12.0
Kyoto	3,087	2617	11.8
Gifu	2,293	2051	11.2
Oita	1,255	1178	10.7
Yamaguchi	1,443	1420	10.2
Kagawa	878	985	8.9
Tokushima	635	770	8.2
Tottori	469	578	8.1
Fukushima	1,543	1946	7.9
Ehime	1,088	1405	7.7
Nagano	1,561	2122	7.4
Okayama	1,400	1930	7.3
Shizuoka	2,633	3723	7.1
Kumamoto	1,191	1801	6.6
Akita	682	1050	6.5
Aichi	4,605	7443	6.2
Hiroshima	1,737	2840	6.1
Gunma	1,207	1984	6.1
Hyogo	3,287	5558	5.9
Nagasaki	738	1397	5.3
Tochigi	987	1986	5.0
Kochi	370	745	5.0
Iwate	634	1295	4.9
Chiba	3,008	6192	4.9
Fukuoka	2,382	5090	4.7
Ibaraki	1,296	2931	4.4
Hokkaido	2,354	5431	4.3
Miyagi	953	2328	4.1
Osaka	3,396	8849	3.8
Aomori	481	1335	3.6
Miyazaki	357	1120	3.2
Saitama	2,247	7222	3.1
Kagoshima	485	1680	2.9
Tokyo	2,872	13300	2.2
Kanagawa	1,889	9079	2.1
Okinawa	81	1415	0.6

Source is Agency for Cultural Affairs.

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