世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Ranking has done a whole series of these questions for each prefecture in Japan, but since this one is about my home prefecture, I thought I’d translate this survey on what comes to mind regarding Hyogo Prefecture.

Demographics

Between the 21th and 24th of October 2008 1,056 members of the goo Research online monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.5% of the sample were female, 5.0% in their teens, 13.2% in their twenties, 28.4% in their thirties, 31.5% in their forties, 13.1% in their fifties, and 8.8% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

All pictures are from flickr – click the credit column to access the original.

Ranking result

Q: What comes to mind regarding Hyogo Prefecture? (Sample size=1,056)

Rank		Photo	Credit	Score
1	Akashiyaki		jetalone	100
2	Awaji Island		benettone	97.4
3	Rokko Mountain		foomtsuruhashi	94.6
4	Kobe Luminaire		gwaar	87.1
5	Himeji Castle		kamoda	77.8
6	Port Island		pict_u_re	77.4
7	Arima Hot Spings		Crouching Donkey	77.1
8	Koshien stadium		Jameswy.Wang	74.5
9	Hanshin Tigers		iridescent	73.8
10	Takarazuka Theatre		Bubble Gum	71.7
11	Kobe Harbour		captain EO	58.4
12	Akashi Kaikyo Ohashi suspension bridge		kamoda	55.8
13	Kobe Nanking China Town		cotaro70s	43.8
14	Vissel Kobe		shunkoh	43.3
15	Nada Junior, Senior High School			43.3
16	Japan Standard Time Meridian		5thLuna	42.0
17	Tajima Cattle		k14	38.4
18	Nada Sake		cotaro70s	37.7
19	Ikuta Shrine		5thLuna	36.4
20	Fugetsudo Gaufres		jetalone	32.5
21	Old Foreign Settlement		Flouride’s memories	30.5
22	Hanshin Railway		peter-rabbit	30.3
23	Hanshin Industrial Zone		Crystalline Radical	29.8
24	Kakogawa		mtsn	23.3
25	Orix Buffaloes		tedwang	22.9
26	Ibonoito Soumen Noodles		k14	21.8
27	Harima Nada		Koza-Net	17.0
28	Down-town (Manzai comedy double-act)			15.0
29	tansan Sembei (carbonic acid rice cracker)		alphalead	14.2
30	Soba Meshi (fried rice and buckwheat noodles)		ryumu	12.9