Number of pachinko parlors in West Japan 2012-2019
As of December 2019, there were approximately 4.8 thousand pachinko parlors operating in western Japan. The figures have been continuously decreasing during the past decade, just as figures pertaining to the number of pachinko operators, and the number of active pachinko players. From 2012 to 2019 over one thousand pachinko parlors had closed in the western regions of Japan.