List of Tochigi Governors
The following is a list of governors of the Tochigi Prefecture.
The first governor of Tochigi Prefecture was appointed by the Meiji government on November 13, 1871, following the merging of the previous, short-lived Utsunomiya and Tochigi Prefectures. Governors of Tochigi were politically appointed from 1871 until the post-war period starting in 1947, after which they were popularly elected.
Names are written in the Japanese style, family name first.
Appointed governors
- Nabeshima Miki
- Fujikawa Tamechika
- Mishima Michitsune
- Kabayama Sukeo
- Orita Heinai
- Satō Shin
- Egi Kazuyuki
- Chikami Kiyoomi
- Hagino Samon
- Mizobe Iiku
- Sugai Masami
- Shirani Takeshi
- Kubota Kiyochika
- Nakayama Miyozō
- Okada Bunji
- Kitagawa Nobutsugu
- Hiratsuka Hiroyoshi
- Yamawaki Haruki
- Ōtsuka Isei
- Fujioka Hyōichi
- Beppu Sōtarō
- Fujiyama Takeichi
- Morioka Jirō
- Harada Iori
- Asari Saburō
- Toyoshima Chōkichi
- Nagarai Kiyoshi
- Kayaba Gunzō
- Matsumura Mitsuma
- Adachi Osamu
- Yamagata Saburō
- Sakurai Yasuemon
- Azumi Tokuya
- Sōma Toshio
- Ogawa Kimchi
- Ikeda Kiyoshi
Elected governors
- Kodaira Jyūkichi
- Ogawa Kiichi
- Yokokawa Nobuo
- Funada Yuzuru
- Watanabe Fumio
- Fukuda Akio
- Fukuda Tomikazu