Japanese Geography
This page is dedicated to an ever growing base of geographical information about Japan. Major islands, Regions, Prefectures and small cities. But will also grow to cover, land monuments, mountain ranges, lakes, rivers, surrounding ocean and much more.
The Main Islands of Japan
There are four different sections of island that Japan breaks off into. Starting from the north and moving down you have:
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| Hokkaido | Honshu | Shikoku | Kyushu |
The Main Regions of Japan
Start from the north again working down you have.
| Hokkaido | Tohoku | Kanto | Chubu/Hokuriku | Kinki (Kansai) | Chugoku | Shikoku | Kyushu – Okinawa |
Take a Japan region quiz to see if you know the Japanese regions, take it here!
Prefectures of Japan
| Tohoku | Kanto | Chubu/Hokuriku | Kinki (Kansai) | Chugoku | Shikoku | Kyushu – Okinawa | |
| Aomori | Tochigi | Niigata | Shiga | Tottori | Kagawa | Fukuoka | |
| Akita | Gunma | Toyama | Mie | Okayama | Tokushima | Oita | |
| Iwate | Ibaraki | Ishikawa | Kyoto | Hiroshima | Kochi | Saga | |
| Yamagata | Chiba | Nagano | Nara | Shimane | Ehime | Nagasaki | |
| Miyagi | Saitama | Yamanashi | Wakayama | Yamaguchi | – | Miyazaki | |
| Fukushima | Tokyo | Shizuoka | Osaka | – | – | Kumamoto | |
| – | – | Gifu | Hyogo | – | – | Kagoshima | |
| – | – | Aichi | – | – | – | Okinawa | |
| – | – | Fukui | – | – | – | – |
You can test your Japanese geography skills by taking a quiz here.
Japan has many amazing prefectures and cities dotted all over it’s 4 islands. With this page you can look more closely into each area of Japan and get an overall understanding. I’ve been researching the subject of Japanese and Japanese history, geography and news since I was in high school and I still hardly feel I can be called a professional, but to be fair I know more than most especially outside Japan and my desire to continue to learn about Japan is my greatest strengths when it comes to say.. a Japanese website/blog!
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I do highly suggest checking out the map quiz above to really learn the prefectures quickly!
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