Honshu
Honshu is the largest island of Japan, housing the great majority of its population and hosting most of the visitors as well. Due to its size, it is commonly subdivided into smaller regions. From northeast to southwest:…| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: largest island of Japan
- Also known as: “Big Island”, “Hondo”, “Hondo I.”, “Hondo Is.”, “Hondo Island”, “Honschiu”, “Honshiu”, “Honshū”, “Honshu I.”, “Honshu Island”, “Honsyu”, “Japan”, “Main Island”, “Meaco”, “Meako”, “Niphon”, “Nipon”, and “Nippon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tatsuno Station and Miyaki Station.
Tatsuno Station
Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tatsuno Station is a railway station in the town of Tatsuno, Kamiina District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan jointly operated by JR Central and JR East. It is managed by JR East. The station also has a freight terminal for the Japan Freight Railway Company.
Miyaki Station
Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Miyaki Station is a railway station on the Iida Line in the town of Tatsuno, Kamiina District, Nagano, Japan, operated by Central Japan Railway Company.
Shinano-Kawashima
Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shinano-Kawashima Station is a railway station in the town of Tatsuno Town, Kamiina District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tatsuno.
Tatsuno
Town
Photo: Qurren, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tatsuno is a town located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 June 2019, the town had an estimated population of 18,951 in 7917 households, and a population density of 112 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 169.20 square kilometres.
Honshu
- Categories: island of Japan and landform
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Honshu” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Honshu”
- Afrikaans: “Honsjoe”
- Albanian: “Honshū”
- Amharic: “ሆንሹ”
- Arabic: “هونشو”
- Aragonese: “Honshu”
- Armenian: “Հոնսյու”
- Armenian: “Նիպոն”
- Asturian: “Honshu”
- Asturian: “Honshū”
- Azerbaijani: “Honşu”
- Azerbaijani: “Hönsü”
- Balinese: “Honshu”
- Bambara: “Honshu”
- Bashkir: “Хонсю”
- Basque: “Honshu”
- Bavarian: “Honshu”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Хансю”
- Belarusian: “Хансю”
- Belarusian: “Хонсю”
- Bengali: “হোনশু”
- Bosnian: “Honshū”
- Bosnian: “Honšu”
- Breton: “Honshū”
- Bulgarian: “Хоншу”
- Burmese: “ဟွန်ရှူးကျွန်း”
- Catalan: “Honshū”
- Cebuano: “Honshū Island”
- Central Kurdish: “ھۆنشوو”
- Central Okinawan: “ふんしゅー”
- Central Okinawan: “本州”
- Chechen: “Хонсю”
- Chinese: “Honsyû”
- Chinese: “本州”
- Chinese: “本州岛”
- Chinese: “本州島”
- Croatian: “Honshū”
- Czech: “Honšú”
- Danish: “Honshu”
- Dimli (individual language): “Honshū”
- Dutch: “Honshu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هونشو”
- Esperanto: “Honŝu”
- Esperanto: “Honŝuo”
- Estonian: “Honshū”
- Faroese: “Honshu”
- Fiji Hindi: “Honshu”
- Fijian: “Honshu”
- Finnish: “Honshū”
- French: “Honshu”
- French: “Honshû”
- French: “Honshū”
- Galician: “Honshu”
- Georgian: “ჰონსიუ”
- German: “Honschu”
- German: “Honshu”
- German: “Honshū”
- German: “Honshuu”
- German: “japanisches Kernland”
- Greek: “Χονσού”
- Greek: “Χονσοῡ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Honshū”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pún-chû”
- Hausa: “Honshu”
- Hebrew: “הונשו”
- Hindi: “होन्शू”
- Hungarian: “Honsú”
- Iban: “Honshu”
- Icelandic: “Honshū”
- Ido: “Honshu”
- Iloko: “Honshu”
- Indonesian: “Honshu”
- Indonesian: “Honshū”
- Interlingua: “Honshu”
- Interlingue: “Honshū”
- Irish: “Honshu”
- Irish: “Honshū”
- Italian: “Honshū”
- Japanese: “ほんしゅう”
- Japanese: “本州”
- Japanese: “本州島”
- Javanese: “Honshu”
- Kabyle: “Honcu”
- Kazakh: “Хонсю”
- Khmer: “ហុងស្ស៊ូ”
- Kirghiz: “Хонсю”
- Korean: “혼슈”
- Kurdish: “Honşû”
- Lao: “ຮອນຊູ”
- Latin: “Honsua”
- Latvian: “Honsju”
- Literary Chinese: “本州”
- Lithuanian: “Honšiu”
- Macedonian: “Хоншу”
- Malay: “Honshū”
- Malayalam: “ഹോൺഷു”
- Maltese: “Honshu”
- Marathi: “होन्शू”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pún-chiu”
- Minangkabau: “Honshū”
- Mingrelian: “ჰონსიუ”
- Mongolian: “Хоншүү”
- Newari: “होन्शु”
- Northern Frisian: “Honshū”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Honshu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Honshu”
- Norwegian: “Honshu”
- Novial: “Honshu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Honshū”
- Ossetian: “Хонсю”
- Panjabi: “ਹੋਂਸ਼ੂ”
- Persian: “هونشو”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Honshu”
- Polish: “Honsiu”
- Portuguese: “Honshu”
- Portuguese: “Honshū”
- Pushto: “هانشو”
- Quechua: “Honshu”
- Romanian: “Honshu”
- Romanian: “Honshū”
- Russian: “Ниппон”
- Russian: “Хондо”
- Russian: “Хонсю”
- Samogitian: “Huonšiū”
- Santali: “ᱦᱳᱱᱥᱩ”
- Sardinian: “Honshū”
- Saterfriesisch: “Honshū”
- Scots: “Honshu”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Honshū”
- Serbian: “Хоншу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Honshū”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Honšu”
- Shona: “Honshu”
- Sindhi: “هونشو”
- Sinhala: “හොන්ෂූ”
- Slovak: “Honšu”
- Slovenian: “Honšu”
- Somali: “Honshu”
- Spanish: “Honshu”
- Spanish: “Honshū”
- Spanish: “Isla Grande”
- Spanish: “Isla Principal”
- Spanish: “Provincia Principal”
- Sundanese: “Honshū”
- Swahili: “Honshu”
- Swedish: “Honshu”
- Swiss German: “Honshu”
- Tagalog: “Honshū”
- Tamil: “ஒன்சூ”
- Tatar: “Хонсю”
- Thai: “เกาะฮนชู”
- Tibetan: “ཧོན་ཤུ།”
- Tok Pisin: “Honshu”
- Tosk Albanian: “Honshu”
- Turkish: “Honshū”
- Turkish: “Honşū”
- Uighur: “خونسيو ئارىلى”
- Ukrainian: “Хонсю”
- Ukrainian: “Хоншю”
- Urdu: “ہونشو”
- Uzbek: “Xonsyu”
- Vietnamese: “Bản Châu”
- Vietnamese: “đảo Bản Châu”
- Vietnamese: “đảo Honshu”
- Vietnamese: “Hôn-su”
- Vietnamese: “Honshu”
- Vietnamese: “Honshū”
- Waray (Philippines): “Honshu”
- Welsh: “Honshū”
- Western Frisian: “Honsjû”
- Western Panjabi: “ھونشو”
- Western Panjabi: “ہونشو”
- Wu Chinese: “本州岛”
- Yakut: “Хонсү”
- Yiddish: “האנשו”
- Yue Chinese: “本州”
- Yue Chinese: “本州島”
- “Big Island”
- “Hondo”
- “Hondo I.”
- “Hondo Is.”
- “Hondo Island”
- “Honshu”
- “Honshū”
- “Honshu I.”
- “Honshu Island”
- “Honšiū”
- “Japan”
- “ma Onsu”
- “Main Island”
- “Meaco”
- “Meako”
- “Niphon”
- “Nipon”
- “Nippon”
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