Pork is common in Japan. The average yearly purchased volume per capita is 19.075 kg. It is 2.8 times of beef and 1.3 times of chicken.
The table below presents the yearly purchased volume of pork by city in Japan. Unit is gram. It is the average figure from 2011 to 2013. The survey was conducted by Japanese government and target people were families which consist of more than two members. So this data does not include single households.
| City | Purchased volume (g) |
| Average | 19,075 |
| Sapporo | 23,882 |
| Niigata | 23,110 |
| Aomori | 22,657 |
| Akita | 22,201 |
| Shizuoka | 21,715 |
| Yokohama | 21,524 |
| Saitama | 21,199 |
| Morioka | 20,940 |
| Kawasaki | 20,927 |
| Hamamatsu | 20,854 |
| Kofu | 20,771 |
| Fukushima | 20,090 |
| Chiba | 19,647 |
| Yamagata | 19,527 |
| Sendai | 19,269 |
| Nagano | 19,181 |
| Fukuoka | 18,813 |
| Tokyo | 18,732 |
| Naha | 18,680 |
| Nara | 18,646 |
| Kagoshima | 18,447 |
| Wakayama | 18,126 |
| Kanazawa | 18,106 |
| Mito | 18,067 |
| Nagoya | 17,988 |
| Utsunomiya | 17,977 |
| Sakai | 17,802 |
| Saga | 17,725 |
| Osaka | 17,712 |
| Toyama | 17,711 |
| Okayama | 17,648 |
| Matsue | 17,569 |
| Miyazaki | 17,454 |
| Hiroshima | 17,325 |
| Tottori | 17,234 |
| Matsuyama | 17,178 |
| Gifu | 17,105 |
| Kyoto | 17,103 |
| Maebashi | 16,954 |
| Otsu | 16,878 |
| Oita | 16,556 |
| Kumamoto | 16,488 |
| Nagasaki | 16,308 |
| Kobe | 16,182 |
| Fukui | 16,036 |
| Tsu | 15,884 |
| Kitakyushu | 15,787 |
| Yamaguchi | 15,759 |
| Takamatsu | 15,598 |
| Kochi | 15,432 |
| Tokushima | 15,129 |
People in the northern Japan buy pork much. It is the opposite trend of beef consumption. (People in the western Japan buy beef much.)
Source is Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
www.stat.go.jp/data/kakei/zuhyou/rank03.xls
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