Shikoku
Shikoku is an oft-forgotten island in Japan. The smallest of Japan's Big Four with around four million inhabitants, it lies to the south of Honshu. The island is thought of as a rural backwater, with few must-see attractions, but a visit there can wash away those doubts; the mountainous inner regions offer some good hiking.Places of Interest
Highlights include Roadside station Tosa-Sameura.
Roadside station Tosa-Sameura
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tosa and Okawa.
Tosa
Town
Okawa
Village
Motoyama
Town
Shikoku
Latitude
33.75° or 33° 45′ north
Longitude
133.5° or 133° 30′ east
Population
4,140,000
Elevation
607 metres (1,991 feet)
Open location code
8Q5MQG22+22
GeoNames ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Shikoku from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Shikoku” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Shikoku”
- Afrikaans: “Sjikokoe”
- Albanian: “Shikoku”
- Arabic: “شيكوكو”
- Armenian: “Սիկոկու”
- Asturian: “Rexón de Shikoku”
- Azerbaijani: “Şikoku”
- Balinese: “Shikoku”
- Banjar: “Shikoku”
- Bashkir: “Сикоку”
- Basque: “Shikoku”
- Belarusian: “Сікоку”
- Bengali: “শিকোকু”
- Bosnian: “Šikoku”
- Breton: “Shikoku”
- Bulgarian: “Шикоку”
- Catalan: “Shikoku”
- Cebuano: “Shikoku”
- Central Kurdish: “شیکۆکو”
- Chinese: “四國”
- Croatian: “Shikoku”
- Czech: “Šikoku”
- Danish: “Shikoku”
- Dutch: “Shikoku”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيكوكو”
- Esperanto: “Ŝikokuo”
- Estonian: “Shikoku”
- Finnish: “Shikoku”
- French: “Shikoku”
- Galician: “Shikoku”
- Georgian: “სიკოკუ”
- Georgian: “შიკოკუ”
- German: “Shikoku”
- Greek: “Σικόκου”
- Hakka Chinese: “Si-koet”
- Hausa: “Shikoku”
- Hebrew: “שיקוקו”
- Hindi: “शिकोकू”
- Hungarian: “Sikoku”
- Icelandic: “Shikoku”
- Iloko: “Shikoku”
- Indonesian: “Shikoku”
- Irish: “Shikoku”
- Italian: “Shikoku”
- Japanese: “四国”
- Kazakh: “Сикоку”
- Khmer: “តំបន់ស៊ីកុគឹ”
- Kirghiz: “Сикоку”
- Korean: “시코쿠”
- Kurdish: “Shikoku”
- Latin: “Sicocus”
- Latvian: “Šikoku”
- Literary Chinese: “四國”
- Lithuanian: “Šikoku”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Shikoku”
- Macedonian: “Шикоку”
- Malay: “Shikoku”
- Malayalam: “ഷികോകു”
- Marathi: “शिकोकू”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sù-kok”
- Mingrelian: “სიკოკუ”
- Nepali: “सिकोकु”
- Northern Frisian: “Shikoku”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shikoku”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shikoku”
- Norwegian: “Shikoku”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shikoku”
- Ossetian: “Сикоку”
- Pampanga: “Shikoku”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਕੋਕੂ”
- Persian: “شیکوکو”
- Polish: “Sikoku”
- Portuguese: “Shikoku”
- Quechua: “Shikoku”
- Romanian: “Shikoku”
- Russian: “Сикоку”
- Samogitian: “Šėkoku”
- Sardinian: “Shikoku”
- Scots: “Shikoku”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Shikoku”
- Serbian: “Шикоку”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šikoku”
- Sinhala: “ෂිකෝකු”
- Slovak: “Šikoku”
- Slovenian: “Šikoku”
- South Azerbaijani: “شیکوکو”
- Spanish: “Shikoku”
- Sundanese: “Shikoku”
- Swahili: “Shikoku”
- Swedish: “Shikoku”
- Tagalog: “Shikoku”
- Tamil: “சிகொக்கு”
- Tatar: “Сикоку”
- Thai: “เกาะชิโกกุ”
- Tok Pisin: “Shikoku”
- Turkish: “Shikoku”
- Uighur: “شىكوكۇ”
- Ukrainian: “Шікоку”
- Urdu: “شیکوکو”
- Vietnamese: “Shikoku”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shikoku”
- Welsh: “Shikoku”
- Western Frisian: “Sjikokû”
- Western Panjabi: “شیکوکو”
- Wu Chinese: “四国岛”
- Yue Chinese: “四國”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Shikoku”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Tosa and Jizoji.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sameura Dam and Ōgoya Yama.
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