{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.prefectural-road","code":"thing-q1537326","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1537326/","name":"prefectural road","alternateNames":["Fukuoka prefectural roads"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.BLT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A road managed by a prefecture in Japan, forming part of the regional road network below national highways, designated either as a principal regional road jointly with the national government or as a general prefectural road, numbered within each prefecture and marked by hexagonal signs, such as the prefectural roads of Fukuoka Prefecture named in the registry alias.","purpose":"Let an agent explain prefectural roads in Japan, relay classification, numbering and management from Japanese road 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