Chubu
Chūbu is the central region of Japan's Honshu island, located at the border between West Japan and East Japan. There are many high-altitude mountains, such as Mount Fuji and the Japanese Alps. The food culture is different for each region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nagoya and Mount Fuji.
Nagoya
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Nagoya is the capital and largest city of Aichi prefecture, in the Chubu region of Honshu. It's not one of Japan's top tourist draws as most tourists just zip through on the bullet train on their way between Tokyo and Kyoto.
Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji is Japan's highest mountain and the focal point of the sprawling Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. Visible from Tokyo on a clear day, the mountain is to the west of Tokyo on the main island Honshu, straddling the border between Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.
Nagano
Nagano is the capital of Nagano prefecture, in the Chubu district of Japan. It flourished as a temple city of Zenkō-ji, a famous temple.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Shizuoka and Nagano.
Shizuoka
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Shizuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. As of September 2023, Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,555,818 and has a geographic area of 7,777.42 km2.
Nagano
Nagano Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,007,682 and has a geographic area of 13,561.56 square kilometres.
Gifu
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Gifu Prefecture is a region in the central Chubu region of the main Japanese island Honshu, with around 2 million inhabitants.
Aichi
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Aichi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,461,111 and a geographic area of 5,172.92 square kilometres with a population density of 1,442 inhabitants per square kilometre.
Niigata
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Niigata Prefecture is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,131,009 and is the fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area at 12,584.18 km2.
Fukui
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Fukui Prefecture is the southernmost prefecture in the Hokuriku part of the Chubu area of Honshu, Japan. Enjoy Fukui is the prefecture's official multilingual guide site.
Yamanashi
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Yamanashi Prefecture is in the central Chubu region of the main Japanese island Honshu. Just hours from Tokyo by bus, train, or car, Yamanashi is good for a day trip from the big city and allows travelers to experience the "inaka" Japan.
Ishikawa
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Ishikawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu island. Ishikawa Prefecture has a population of 1,096,721 and has a geographic area of 4,186 km2.
Toyama
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Toyama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Toyama Prefecture has a population of 993,848 and has a geographic area of 4,247.61 km2.
Chubu
- Type: Region with 21,700,000 residents
- Description: one of 8 regions of Japan in the central island of Honshū
- Also known as: “Central District”, “Chūbu”, “Chūbu District”, “Chūbu region”, and “Chubu-chiho”
- Neighbors: Kansai, Kanto, and Tohoku
- Category: region of Japan
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Chubu” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Chūbu streek”
- Arabic: “تشوبو”
- Arabic: “منطقة تشوبو”
- Arabic: “منطقه تشوبو”
- Armenian: “Տյուբու”
- Azerbaijani: “Çubu regionu”
- Azerbaijani: “Çubu”
- Balinese: “Wawengkon Chūbu”
- Basque: “Chūbu eskualdea”
- Basque: “Chūbu”
- Bavarian: “Chūbu”
- Belarusian: “рэгіён Цюбу”
- Belarusian: “Цюбу (рэгіён)”
- Belarusian: “Цюбу”
- Bengali: “চুউবু অঞ্চল”
- Breton: “Rannvro Chūbu”
- Bulgarian: “Чубу”
- Catalan: “Chubu”
- Catalan: “Chūbu”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی چووبو”
- Chinese: “Tyûbu tē-hng”
- Chinese: “中部地區”
- Chinese: “中部地方”
- Chinese: “日本中部地方”
- Croatian: “Chūbu regija”
- Croatian: “Chubu”
- Croatian: “Chūbu”
- Czech: “Čúbu”
- Czech: “Oblast Čúbu”
- Czech: “Region Čúbu”
- Danish: “Chuburegionen”
- Dutch: “Chubu”
- Dutch: “Chūbu”
- Esperanto: “Chūbu”
- Esperanto: “Ĉubu regiono”
- Esperanto: “Ĉubu-regiono”
- Esperanto: “Ĉubu”
- Esperanto: “Ĉūbu”
- Estonian: “Chūbu piirkond”
- Finnish: “Chubu”
- Finnish: “Chūbu”
- Finnish: “Chuubu”
- French: “Chūbu”
- French: “région du Chūbu”
- French: “Région du Chūbu”
- Galician: “Rexión de Chubu”
- Galician: “Rexión de Chūbu”
- Georgian: “ტიუბუ”
- Georgian: “ჩუბუ”
- German: “Chubu”
- German: “Chūbu”
- Greek: “περιφέρεια Τσούμπου”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chūbu”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chûng-phu Thi-fông”
- Hebrew: “צ’ובו”
- Hindi: “चुबू क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Csúbu”
- Icelandic: “Chūbu”
- Iloko: “Chūbu”
- Iloko: “Rehion ti Chūbu”
- Indonesian: “Chubu”
- Indonesian: “Chūbu”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Chubu”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Chūbu”
- Irish: “Chūbu”
- Italian: “Chubu”
- Italian: “Chūbu”
- Italian: “Regione di Chubu”
- Italian: “Regione di Chūbu”
- Japanese: “中部圏”
- Japanese: “中部地方”
- Japanese: “東海・北陸”
- Japanese: “甲信越静”
- Khmer: “តំបន់ជឺបឹ”
- Khmer: “តំបន់ជឺប៊ឹ”
- Khmer: “តំបន់ឈឺបឹ”
- Khmer: “តំបន់ឈឺប៊ឹ”
- Korean: “주부 지방”
- Korean: “쥬부 지방”
- Latvian: “Čjūbu reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Čiūbu regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Čiūbu”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Chūbu”
- Macedonian: “Чубу”
- Malay: “Chūbu”
- Malay: “Kawasan Chūbu”
- Marathi: “चुबू”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tyûbu tē-hng”
- Moksha: “Чюбу”
- Northern Frisian: “Chūbu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chubu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chūbu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chuburegionen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chūburegionen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chūbu-chihō”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chubu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chūbu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chuburegionen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chūburegionen”
- Norwegian: “Chūburegionen”
- Pampanga: “Chūbu labuad”
- Persian: “چوبو”
- Persian: “منطقه چوبو”
- Persian: “ناحیه چوبو”
- Persian: “ناحیهٔ چوبو”
- Persian: “ناحیه چوپو”
- Polish: “Chubu”
- Polish: “Chūbu”
- Polish: “Region Chubu”
- Polish: “Region Chūbu”
- Portuguese: “Chubu (região)”
- Portuguese: “Chubu”
- Portuguese: “Chūbu”
- Portuguese: “Região de Chubu”
- Portuguese: “Região de Chūbu”
- Quechua: “Chūbu suyu”
- Romanian: “Chūbu”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Chubu”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Chūbu”
- Russian: “Район Тюбу”
- Russian: “Регион Тюбу”
- Russian: “Тюбу”
- Rusyn: “Реґіон Чубу”
- Sardinian: “Chūbu”
- Scots: “Chūbu region”
- Serbian: “Čibu”
- Serbian: “Чибу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chūbu”
- Sindhi: “چوبو ريجن”
- Slovak: “Čúbu”
- Slovenian: “Čubu”
- South Azerbaijani: “چوبو بؤلگهسی”
- Spanish: “Chubu”
- Spanish: “Chūbu”
- Spanish: “Region de Chubu”
- Spanish: “Region de Chūbu”
- Spanish: “Región de Chubu”
- Spanish: “Región de Chūbu”
- Sundanese: “Chubu region”
- Sundanese: “Chūbu region”
- Sundanese: “Wewengkon Chūbu”
- Swedish: “Chūbu region”
- Swedish: “Chubu”
- Swedish: “Chūbu”
- Tagalog: “Chūbu region”
- Tagalog: “Chūbu”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyon ng Chūbu”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyong Chūbu”
- Tajik: “Тюбу”
- Tatar: “Чубу”
- Thai: “จูบุ”
- Thai: “ชูบุ”
- Thai: “ภาคจูบุ”
- Thai: “ภูมิภาคจูบุ”
- Tibetan: “ཆུ་པུ་”
- Tibetan: “ཆུ་པུ།”
- Turkish: “Chūbu Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Chubu”
- Turkish: “Chūbu”
- Turkish: “Çubu”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Тюбу”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Чюбу”
- Urdu: “چوبو علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Chubu”
- Vietnamese: “Chūbu”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Chubu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chūbu”
- Welsh: “Chubu”
- Welsh: “Chūbu”
- Western Panjabi: “چوبو”
- Wu Chinese: “中部地方”
- Yue Chinese: “中部地方”
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