Japan

Japan (日本 Nihon) is the awesome, fascinating, and crazy country where we all came to live. It is not a single person, class, school, town, or prefecture -- but is a nation composed of 133 million people.

There are four main islands: Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku, and Hokkaidō. In addition, there is Okinawa, Sado, Awaji, Yakushima, Tanegashima, and a few other major islands.

Regions

Hokkaidō (北海道)

• Sapporo
• Hakodate

Honshū (本州)

Honshū is the main island is split into a number of regions (地方 chihō)

Tōhoku (東北)

• Aomori
• Sendai

Kantō (関東)

• Nikkō
• Tokyo
• Yokohama

Kōshin'etsu (甲信越)

Also known as the Central Highlands (中央高地 Chūō Kōchi)

• Fuji Five Lakes
• Matsumoto
• Nagano
• Niigata

Hokuriku (北陸)

• Fukui
• Kanazawa
• Toyama

Tōkai (東海)

• Mie Prefecture
• Gifu
• Hamamatsu
• Inuyama
• Nagoya

Kansai (関西)

Also known as Kinki (近畿)

• Kobe
• Kyoto
• Himeji
• Nara
• Osaka

San'yō (山陽)

Sub-region of Chūgoku (中国)

• Hiroshima
• Okayama
• Yamaguchi

San'in (山陰)

Sub-region of Chūgoku (中国)

• Matsue
• Tottori

Shikoku (四国)

• Matsuyama
• Shimanami Kaidō
• Takamatsu

Kyūshū (九州)

• Aso
• Fukuoka
• Kagoshima
• Kumamoto
• Miyazaki
• Nagasaki

Okinawa (沖縄)

• Naha
• Ishigaki
• Miyakojima