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Each of our Japanese license plate is embossed with the appropriate fonts and characters.

Customize any combination of numbers and letters on your Japanese license plate.

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

These license plates are issued by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the National Government for most vehicles while ones with smaller engines are issued by the local municipality.

The top line contains a Prefecture character and a 2 or 3-digit code show vehicle purpose (vehicle class code).

ABOUT PREFECTURES

Japan is divided into 9 regions, which are split into 47 smaller prefectures. Prefectures of Japan (都道府県, todōfuken) are one of the basic local entities of Japan. They are the 47 subdivisions of the country. Prefectures are the governmental bodies of Japan which are larger than cities, towns, and villages. At present, there are a total of 106 different issuing municipalities covering the 47 prefectures, territories and metropolises of Japan, each with their respective names displayed in Kanji (plate name) but the Japanese Ministry of Communications also allows some of the more representative municipal divisions of the city to their own smaller city name listed in the “plate name”.

ABOUT VEHICLE CLASS CODE

Meaning of first digit:

1 - mid size truck

2 - microbus and bus

3 - passenger car above two liter engine

4 - small trucks

5 - passenger car up to two litre engine

8 - special purpose vehicle

9 - heavy, special purpose vehicles

0 - construction equipment

The bottom line contains a Hiragana character and a four-digit serial number divided into two groups of two digits separated by a hyphen. Any leading zeroes are replaced by centered dots.

ABOUT HIRAGANA

There are certain regulations for using Hiraganas such as れ and わ for rental cars.

あ・い・う・え・か・き・く・け・こ and を are reserved for cars for business use such as taxis and so forth.

The Roman letters E・H・K・M・T・Y or hiragana よ are reserved for vehicles owned by US military personnel instead of Hiragana.

Have you ever wondered why some Japanese license plates have red lines through them? And why some plates are yellow? Here’s a quick run-through of what different plates mean:

Depending on the type of vehicle, Japan’s license plate background is distinguished by four colors: white, yellow, green, and black.

The Japan has long had pretty boring license plates. Until recently, full-size passenger car plates were the same for every prefecture: green text and numbers on a plain white field.

The new license plates with new local patterns began appearing in 2018 on vehicles. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism finally allowed for greater variety, as 41 localities were allowed to begin issuing optional alternative license plates with artistic salutes to local culture and scenery. Japanese license plates with new local patterns have become very popular.