Depicts a pair of Japanese Crested Ibises and rice terrace. State name above, value below.

The crested ibis (Nipponia nippon), also known as the Japanese crested ibis or Toki (トキ), is a large (up to 78.5 cm (30.9 in) long), white-plumaged ibis of pine forests. Its head is partially bare, showing red skin, and it has a dense crest of white plumes on the nape.

The inner section shows an image of an old Japanese coin (old cast Mon coin) where Kanji letters mean “Local Autonomy”. Latent image technology is applied to the centre of the coin to make letters of “47″ representing the number of prefectures in Japan, and “60″ representing the 60th Anniversary of Enforcement of the Local Autonomy Law appear alternately when viewed from different angles.

The outer ring of the coin depicts the inscription in English above, value in English and the year of issue in Kanji below.

Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana and katakana. The date begins with the symbols for the era name Heisei (平成), followed by the era year, and ends with the symbol for year (年).