Amami Islands
The Amami Islands are a Japanese archipelago in the Satsunan Islands, which is part of the Ryukyu Islands, and is southwest of Kyushu. Administratively, the group belongs to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Amami Oshima and Tokunoshima.
Amami Oshima
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Amami Oshima, literally "Big Amami Island", is the largest of the Amami Islands, a small archipelago south of Kyushu, Japan. While administratively a part of Kagoshima, it's geographically and culturally a part of Okinawa.
Tokunoshima
Tokunoshima is one of the Amami Islands. Together with Amami Oshima, Iriomote and the northern part of the Okinawa Island it was listed as a natural world heritage site by UNESCO in 2021.
Yoron
Yoron is a town located on Yoronjima, in Ōshima District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. As of October 2020, the town has an estimated population of 5,115 and a population density of 250 persons per km2.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Okinoerabujima and Kikai.
Okinoerabujima
Okinoerabujima, often written Okinoerabu or Okierabu and in speech just Erabu, is a remote island in the Amami Islands chain in Kagoshima, Japan. It is an agricultural community that is not a common tourist destination.
Kikai
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Kikai Island, or Kikaijima, is a small island located in the Amami Islands, just to the east of Amami Oshima. While it is a part of Kagoshima, due to a long and varied history of being conquered, culturally Kikai is a blend of Okinawan, Amami, and Kagoshima traditions.
Amami Islands
- Type: Island with 121,000 residents
- Description: island group
- Also known as: “Amami Group”, “Amami Guntō”, “Amami Island Group”, “Amami Oshima group”, “Amami Rettō”, and “Ōshima-guntō”
- Category: island group
- Location: Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Yue Chinese—“Amami Islands” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Amami adaları”
- Catalan: “illes Amami”
- Cebuano: “Amami Shotō”
- Central Okinawan: “奄美群島”
- Chinese: “Amami Kûn-tó”
- Chinese: “奄美”
- Chinese: “奄美地方”
- Chinese: “奄美岛”
- Chinese: “奄美群島”
- Chinese: “奄美诸岛”
- Czech: “Amami”
- Dutch: “Amami-eilanden”
- Esperanto: “Amamioj”
- Finnish: “Amamisaaret”
- French: “archipel Amami”
- French: “îles Amami”
- French: “Îles Amami”
- Galician: “Illas Amami”
- German: “Amami-Inselgruppe”
- German: “Amami-Inseln”
- German: “Amami-shotō”
- German: “Amamiinseln”
- Hebrew: “איי אממי”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Amami”
- Italian: “Isole Amami”
- Japanese: “奄美群島”
- Japanese: “奄美諸島”
- Korean: “아마미 군도”
- Korean: “아마미 제도”
- Lithuanian: “Amami salos”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amami Kûn-tó”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amamiøyene”
- Norwegian: “Amamiøyene”
- Persian: “جزایر آمامی”
- Polish: “Wyspy Amami”
- Portuguese: “Amami”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Amami”
- Romanian: “Insulele Amami”
- Russian: “Амами (острова)”
- Russian: “Амами”
- Russian: “Острова Амами”
- Shona: “Zvitsuwa zve Amami”
- Slovenian: “Amamijski otoki”
- Spanish: “Islas Amami”
- Spanish: “Islas de Amami”
- Swedish: “Amamiöarna”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะอะมะมิ”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะอามามิ”
- Turkish: “Amami Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Амамі”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Амамі”
- Vietnamese: “Amami (quần đảo)”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Amami”
- Wu Chinese: “奄美群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “奄美群島”
- “Amami-guntō”
- “Amami-shotō”
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