prefecture-level citiesとは 意味・読み方・使い方

I heard that 800 buses come to Sendai each day from the six Tohoku prefectures and Niigata. While Sendai has a population of one million, other cities have roughly 100,000 residents, reflecting the high level of concentration of people typical in regional cities. This trip gave me a strong realization that Sendai is the city of concentration in Miyagi prefecture or the Tohoku region, as is implied by the fact that Shopping Center Promotion Association representatives that I met were saying that there are very few vacant stores in Sendai, generally around a few percent (the percentage of closed stores). In contrast, however, I was told that the percentage of closed stores is roughly 18 percent on average in the prefecture’s southern part, excluding Sendai, and northern part and even as high as 25 percent in particularly suffering areas, which of course amounts to one in every four stores being vacant in shopping streets in those areas. They also said that, in Miyagi prefecture, Sendai has vibrant shopping streets but those in towns other than Sendai in the southern and northern parts (of the prefecture) are in a very grim state.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

仙台は、私も知りませんでしたが、東北6県や新潟からも1日に800本バスが出るそうです。ですから、仙台市は人口100万（人）でございますけれども、他の都市は大体10万（人）ぐらいでして、非常に地方の都市は一極集中といいますか、仙台は、宮城県あるいは東北の一極集中ということも強く実感いたしまして、特に商店街（振興組合）連合会の方がおられましたけれども、仙台の商店街連合会の方は、空いた店というのは非常に少なく、大体数％と言っていました。ところが、特に仙台以外の県南と県北は大体平均18％ぐらい商店街が、ひどいところは25％ぐらい、商店街の4軒に1軒の商店街が空いているというふうな話も出ました。宮城県内でも常に仙台の中心部は活況を呈している商店街がありますが、特に県南と県北の仙台市以外の町の商店街は非常に厳しいという話も聞かせて頂きました。 - 金融庁