Fatal traffic accidents in Japan, 2019-2025

Prefecture

Year

Time of day (4-hour bands)

Who died

Day / night

In the current map view

Last updated 19 October 2026

Zoomed out, nearby fatal accidents are counted in small squares; darker means more: One fatal accident (zoom in to see) 2 or more fatal accidents at the same spot (within about 50 m) Injury-accident hotspot (10 or more in 7 years; zoom in to see)

What this map shows

Zoom in to see each fatal accident as a point. Tap a point to see the year, the time of day and the type of accident.

Tap “Show accidents near me” to move the map to where you are. Choose a prefecture to count only the accidents there.

Use the year and time-of-day sliders to narrow the period. Choose “Night only” or “Pedestrians” to see where accidents on dark roads or while crossing are most common.

Turn on “Also show injury-accident hotspots” to see the junctions and roads where accidents, including those with injuries, happen most. Use it to check school routes and the roads you use every day.

Questions and answers

What counts as a fatal accident?

An accident in which someone died within 24 hours (the National Police Agency's definition). Statistics that count deaths within 30 days give different numbers.

Why is there no date or exact time?

So that the people who died cannot be identified, the map shows only the year and a four-hour time band, and locations are blurred to about 100 m.

When is it updated?

Once a year, after the National Police Agency publishes the previous year's accident data.

Japan in numbers (2019-2025)

In the 7 years from 2019 to 2025, Japan had 18,761 fatal accidents and 19,188 deaths, about 2,680 a year.

Fatal accidents by prefecture (most first)

Rank	Prefecture	Fatal accidents	Deaths
1	Tokyo	958	969
2	Aichi	947	962
3	Osaka	918	930
4	Chiba	909	925
5	Kanagawa	876	890
6	Hokkaido	860	895
7	Saitama	816	832
8	Hyogo	776	792
9	Fukuoka	633	644
10	Ibaraki	619	631
11	Shizuoka	596	611
12	Hiroshima	478	494
13	Mie	423	441
14	Gifu	422	438
15	Tochigi	421	436
16	Niigata	419	430
17	Okayama	410	418
18	Fukushima	362	373
19	Kyoto	355	360
20	Nagano	338	345
21	Gunma	337	347
22	Kumamoto	332	340
23	Kagoshima	330	340
24	Ehime	319	325
25	Miyagi	313	320
26	Shiga	299	306
27	Yamaguchi	262	269
28	Iwate	259	265
29	Kagawa	254	262
30	Oita	248	253
31	Miyazaki	238	240
32	Okinawa	235	240
33	Aomori	234	240
34	Akita	226	234
35	Nagasaki	212	213
36	Ishikawa	204	209
37	Toyama	203	206
38	Wakayama	201	204
39	Nara	199	201
40	Tokushima	188	196
41	Yamagata	187	193
42	Fukui	183	189
43	Kochi	183	187
44	Yamanashi	175	179
45	Saga	166	170
46	Tottori	123	127
47	Shimane	115	117

Pages by prefecture

A "fatal accident" is one in which someone died within 24 hours (the National Police Agency's definition). Counts differ from statistics that count deaths within 30 days.

Locations are the accident sites recorded by the police. So that no one who died can be identified, each location is blurred to about 100 m (still fine enough to see which intersections are dangerous). For the same reason the map shows only the year and a 4-hour time band (e.g. 20:00-24:00), never the month, day, exact time, age or sex (age is used only for the national totals).

"Injury-accident hotspots" count every accident with casualties, including injuries only, in squares of about 50 m. When an intersection sits on the edge of a square, its count can be split between two squares.

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