Hokkaido
Hokkaido covers Japan's northern island, linking Sapporo, Asahikawa, Hakodate, Kushiro, Obihiro, Otaru, Tomakomai, Wakkanai, Abashiri, and Kitami with airport, rail, road, coast, snow, and national-park routes.
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Regions are a simple way into the city and stay-area hierarchy.
Regions
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Tohoku
Tohoku covers northern Honshu, linking Sendai, Aomori, Morioka, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima, Hachinohe, Koriyama, and Iwaki with mountain, coast, onsen, festival, and Shinkansen routes.
Explore Tohoku region →Kanto
Kanto covers the Tokyo metropolitan region and surrounding eastern Honshu, linking Tokyo, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Saitama, Chiba, Utsunomiya, Maebashi, Mito, Tsukuba, Kamakura, Hakone, and Nikko with airport, Shinkansen, suburban rail, coast, mountain, and city routes.
Hakone Kamakura Kawagoe Tokyo Yokohama
Explore Kanto region →Chubu
Chubu spans central Honshu, linking Pacific-side cities such as Nagoya, Shizuoka, and Hamamatsu with Hokuriku-Shinetsu gateways including Kanazawa, Toyama, Niigata, Nagano, Matsumoto, and Fukui.
Hamamatsu Kanazawa Nagoya Toyama
Explore Chubu region →Kansai
Kansai covers western Japan's Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe core and surrounding historic, coastal, lake, and pilgrimage areas, linking Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Nara, Himeji, Otsu, Wakayama, Sakai, Uji, and Koyasan with airport, Shinkansen, JR, and private-rail routes.
Amagasaki Himeji Kobe Kyoto Nara Osaka Wakayama
Explore Kansai region →Chugoku
Chugoku covers western Honshu between Kansai and Kyushu, linking Hiroshima, Okayama, Kurashiki, Matsue, Tottori, Shimonoseki, Fukuyama, Onomichi, Yamaguchi, Hagi, Izumo, and Iwakuni with Sanyo Shinkansen, Seto Inland Sea, Sanin coast, castle, shrine, garden, and island routes.
Explore Chugoku region →Shikoku
Shikoku covers Japan's smallest main island, linking Matsuyama, Takamatsu, Tokushima, Kochi, Naruto, Marugame, Imabari, Uwajima, Niihama, Saijo, Ozu, and Kotohira with pilgrimage, Seto Inland Sea, onsen, castle, river, mountain, ferry, bridge, rail, bus, and road routes.
Explore Shikoku region →Kyushu
Kyushu covers southern Japan's main island, linking Fukuoka, Kitakyushu, Saga, Nagasaki, Sasebo, Oita, Beppu, Yufuin, Kumamoto, Aso, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, Ibusuki, and Karatsu with Shinkansen, airport, ferry, onsen, volcano, coast, castle, food, and island routes.
Explore Kyushu region →Okinawa
Okinawa covers Japan's subtropical southern islands, linking Naha, Okinawa City, Urasoe, Ginowan, Uruma, Nago, Itoman, Tomigusuku, Nanjo, Ishigaki, Miyakojima, and island destinations such as Kerama, Kume, Iriomote, Taketomi, and Yonaguni.
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