Chugoku
Chūgoku is the westernmost part of the main Japanese island Honshu. Aside from Hiroshima, most of Chugoku is probably well off the beaten track for a brief visit to Japan; but if time permits, you'll find a region full of memorable sights and experiences, and a side of Japan that's completely unlike the better-known destinations in Kansai and Kanto.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Hiroshima and Okayama.
Hiroshima
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Hiroshima is an industrial city of wide boulevards and criss-crossing rivers along the coast of the Seto Inland Sea. Although many only know it for the horrific split-second on August 6, 1945 when it became the site of the world's first atomic bomb attack, it is now a modern cosmopolitan city with excellent cuisine and a bustling nightlife.
Okayama
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Okayama is a major transit hub for western Japan. But with white peaches, a brooding black castle, and the famous garden of Kōrakuen, there are plenty of reasons to catch a later train and get out of the station to explore.
Shimonoseki
Shimonoseki is a city in Yamaguchi prefecture and the westernmost municipality on Honshu. The city has been at the center of Japanese history for centuries, but it's best known to culinary daredevils as the home of fugu, a pufferfish as cute looking as it is potentially lethal.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Hiroshima and Okayama.
Hiroshima
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Hiroshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 and has a geographic area of 8,479 km2.
Okayama
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Okayama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,826,059 and has a geographic area of 7,114 km2.
Yamaguchi
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Yamaguchi Prefecture is in the western Chugoku region of the main Japanese island Honshu. It is the westernmost prefecture in the island.
Shimane
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Shimane Prefecture is in the western Chugoku region of the main Japanese island Honshu. It is the 2nd least populous prefecture in Japan.
Tottori
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Tottori Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Tottori Prefecture is the least populous prefecture of Japan at 538,525 and has a geographic area of 3,507.13 square kilometres.
Chugoku
- Type: Region with 7,560,000 residents
- Description: region of Japan
- Also known as: “Chikoku”, “Chugoku Chiho”, “Chūgoku Chihō”, “Chūgoku District”, “Chūgoku region”, and “San’in-San’yō region”
- Neighbors: Kansai
- Categories: region of Japan and statistical territorial entity
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chugoku” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشوغوكو”
- Arabic: “منطقة تشوغوكو”
- Arabic: “منطقه تشوغوكو”
- Armenian: “Տյուգոկու”
- Azerbaijani: “Çuqoku regionu”
- Azerbaijani: “Çuqoku”
- Balinese: “Wawengkon Chūgoku”
- Basque: “Chugoku eskualdea”
- Basque: “Chūgoku eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “рэгіён Цюгоку”
- Belarusian: “Цюгоку”
- Bengali: “চুউগোকু অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Чугоку”
- Catalan: “Chugoku”
- Catalan: “Chūgoku”
- Catalan: “regió de Chūgoku”
- Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی چووگۆکو”
- Chinese: “Tyûgoku tē-hng”
- Chinese: “中国地区”
- Chinese: “中国地方”
- Chinese: “中國地區”
- Chinese: “中國地方”
- Chinese: “山阴山阳地方”
- Chinese: “山陰山陽地方”
- Croatian: “Chūgoku regija”
- Croatian: “Chugoku”
- Croatian: “Chūgoku”
- Czech: “Čúgoku”
- Danish: “Chūgoku”
- Dutch: “Chugoku regio”
- Dutch: “Chugoku”
- Dutch: “Chūgoku”
- Egyptian Arabic: “منطقه تشوجوكو”
- Esperanto: “Ĉugoku-regiono”
- Esperanto: “Ĉugokuo”
- Estonian: “Chūgoku”
- Finnish: “Chugoku”
- Finnish: “Chūgoku”
- Finnish: “Chuugoku”
- French: “Chugoku”
- French: “Chûgoku”
- French: “Chūgoku”
- French: “Region de Chugoku”
- French: “Région de Chugoku”
- French: “Région de Chûgoku”
- French: “région de Chūgoku”
- French: “Région du Chūgoku”
- Galician: “Rexión de Chūgoku”
- Georgian: “ტიუგოკუ”
- Georgian: “ჩუგოკუ”
- German: “Chugoku”
- German: “Chūgoku”
- German: “Region Chūgoku”
- German: “San’in-San’yo”
- German: “San’in-San’yō”
- German: “San’in”
- German: “Sanin-Sanyo”
- German: “Sanin-Sanyō”
- German: “Sanin”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chūgoku”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chûng-koet Thi-fông”
- Hebrew: “צ’וגוקו”
- Hindi: “चूगोकु क्षेत्र”
- Hindi: “चूगोकू क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Csúgoku”
- Icelandic: “Chūgoku”
- Iloko: “Chūgoku”
- Iloko: “Rehion ti Chūgoku”
- Indonesian: “Chugoku”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Chugoku”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Chūgoku”
- Irish: “Chūgoku”
- Italian: “Chugoku”
- Italian: “Chūgoku”
- Italian: “Regione di Chugoku”
- Italian: “Regione di Chūgoku”
- Japanese: “ちゅうごくちほう”
- Japanese: “中国地方”
- Japanese: “中國地方”
- Japanese: “山陰山陽地方”
- Japanese: “陰陽地方”
- Khmer: “តំបន់ជឺហ្គុកឹ”
- Khmer: “តំបន់ឈឺហ្កុគឹ”
- Korean: “산인·산요 지방”
- Korean: “주고쿠 지방”
- Korean: “주고쿠”
- Korean: “주코쿠 지방”
- Korean: “쥬고쿠 지방”
- Latvian: “Čjūgoku reģions”
- Literary Chinese: “中國地方”
- Lithuanian: “Čiūgoku regionas”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Chūgoku”
- Macedonian: “Чугоку”
- Malay: “Chūgoku”
- Malay: “Kawasan Chugoku”
- Malay: “Kawasan Chūgoku”
- Marathi: “चुगोकू”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tyûgoku tē-hng”
- Northern Frisian: “Chūgoku”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chugoku”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chūgoku”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chugokuregionen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chūgokuregionen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chugoku”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chūgoku”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chugokuregionen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chūgokuregionen”
- Norwegian: “Chūgokuregionen”
- Pampanga: “Chūgoku labuad”
- Persian: “چوگوکو”
- Persian: “منطقه چوگوکو”
- Persian: “ناحيه چوگوكو”
- Persian: “ناحیه چوگوکو”
- Persian: “ناحیهٔ چوگوکو”
- Polish: “Region Chugoku”
- Polish: “Region Chūgoku”
- Portuguese: “Chugoku”
- Portuguese: “Chūgoku”
- Portuguese: “Região de Chugoku”
- Portuguese: “Região de Chūgoku”
- Portuguese: “San’in-San’yō”
- Quechua: “Chūgoku suyu”
- Romanian: “Chūgoku”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Chugoku”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Chūgoku”
- Russian: “Район Тюгоку”
- Russian: “Регион Тюгоку”
- Russian: “Тюгоку”
- Samogitian: “Čiūgoku regijuons”
- Samogitian: “Čiūgoku regiuons”
- Samogitian: “Čiūguoku regėuons”
- Sardinian: “Chūgoku”
- Scots: “Chūgoku region”
- Serbian: “Čugoku”
- Serbian: “Чугоку”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chūgoku”
- Sindhi: “چوگوڪو ريجن”
- Sinhala: “චූගොකු කලාපය”
- Slovak: “Čúgoku”
- Slovenian: “Čugoku”
- South Azerbaijani: “چوقوکو بؤلگهسی”
- Spanish: “Chugoku”
- Spanish: “Chūgoku”
- Spanish: “Region de Chugoku”
- Spanish: “Region de Chūgoku”
- Spanish: “Región de Chugoku”
- Spanish: “Región de Chūgoku”
- Sundanese: “Chūgoku”
- Sundanese: “Wewengkon Chūgoku”
- Swedish: “Chūgoku-chihō”
- Swedish: “Chugoku-regionen”
- Swedish: “Chugoku”
- Swedish: “Chūgoku”
- Swedish: “Chugokuregionen”
- Tagalog: “Chūgoku region”
- Tagalog: “Chūgoku”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyon ng Chūgoku”
- Tagalog: “Rehiyong Chūgoku”
- Thai: “ชูโงกุ”
- Turkish: “Chūgoku Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Chugoku”
- Turkish: “Chūgoku”
- Turkish: “Çugoku”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Тюгоку”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Тюґоку”
- Ukrainian: “Регіон Чюґоку”
- Ukrainian: “Тюґоку”
- Urdu: “چوگوکو علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Chugoku chiho”
- Vietnamese: “Chugoku”
- Vietnamese: “Chūgoku”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Chugoku”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng San’in-San’yō”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chūgoku”
- Welsh: “Chugoku”
- Welsh: “Chūgoku”
- Welsh: “Rhanbarth Chūgoku”
- Western Panjabi: “چوگوکو”
- Wu Chinese: “中国地区”
- Wu Chinese: “中国地方”
- Yue Chinese: “中國地方”
- “Čiūgoku regijuons”
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