Japan Islands

The Japanese archipelago is an archipelago of 14,125 islands that constitute the sovereign state of . It spans over 3,000 km from the in the northeast to the East China and Philippine seas in the southwest along the Pacific coast of the…
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  • Type: Archipelago
  • Description: East Asian archipelago in the North Pacific Ocean
  • Also known as: “Home Islands”, “Japanese archipelago”, “Japanese Archipelago”, “Japanese islands”, and “Japanese Islands”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kuryu Rakusen-en Sanatorium and Ōsen Falls.

Hospital
Kuryū Rakusen-en Sanatorium, or National Sanatorium Kuryū Rakusen-en is a sanatorium for leprosy or ex-leprosy patients situated at -machi, Azuma-gun, Gunma Prefecture in , which started in 1932.

Waterfall
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is a waterfall.

Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a passenger railway station in the town of Naganohara, , Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Joshin’etsukogen National Park and Kusatsu.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Joshin'etsukogen National Park is in the region of ; it is the second largest national park in and consists of mountains and highlands that extend across , , and prefectures.

Photo: SpringField1967, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a famous hot-spring resort town in , . It is one of the Three Famous Springs in the 17th-century ranking of Hayashi Razan, and remains highly rated and popular.

Town
Photo: Asasa198, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town located in , .

Japan Islands

Latitude
36.6° or 36° 36′ north
Longitude
138.65° or 138° 39′ east
Open location code
8Q8WHJXX+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6888401285
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­archipelago
Wiki­data ID
Q841337
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Japan Islands” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Japannese Argipel”
  • Afrikaans: “Japanse Argipel”
  • Albanian: “Arkipelagu japonez”
  • Arabic: “الأرخبيل الياباني”
  • Armenian: “Ճապոնական կղզիներ”
  • Asturian: “Archipiélagu xaponés”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yapon arxipelaqı”
  • Basque: “Japoniako artxipelagoa”
  • Basque: “Japoniako uharteak”
  • Basque: “Japoniako uhartedia”
  • Basque: “Japoniar artxipelagoa”
  • Basque: “Japoniar uharteak”
  • Basque: “Japoniar uhartedia”
  • Belarusian: “Японскі архіпэляг”
  • Belarusian: “Японскія астравы”
  • Bengali: “জাপান দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bosnian: “Japanski arhipelag”
  • Bulgarian: “Японски острови”
  • Catalan: “Arxipèlag japonés”
  • Catalan: “arxipèlag japonès”
  • Catalan: “Arxipèlag japonès”
  • Chinese: “Ji̍t-pún lia̍t-tó”
  • Chinese: “日本列岛”
  • Chinese: “日本列島”
  • Chinese: “日本群岛”
  • Croatian: “Japansko otočje”
  • Czech: “Japonské souostroví”
  • Danish: “Japanske øhav”
  • Dutch: “Japanese archipel”
  • Dutch: “Japanse archipel”
  • Esperanto: “Japana insularo”
  • Estonian: “Jaapani saared”
  • Estonian: “Jaapani saarestik”
  • Finnish: “Japanin saaristo”
  • French: “archipel du Japon”
  • French: “archipel japonais”
  • French: “Archipel japonais”
  • Galician: “Arquipélago xaponés”
  • Georgian: “იაპონიის არქიპელაგი”
  • German: “Japanischer Archipel”
  • Greek: “Αρχιπέλαγος της Ιαπωνίας”
  • Greek: “Εσωτερικές Νήσοι”
  • Greek: “Ιαπωνικά νησιά”
  • Greek: “Ιαπωνικό αρχιπέλαγος”
  • Hebrew: “ארכיפלג יפן”
  • Hebrew: “הארכיפלג היפני”
  • Hindi: “जापानी द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hungarian: “Japán-szigetek”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Jepang”
  • Interlingua: “Archipelago japonese”
  • Irish: “oileánrach na Seapáine”
  • Japanese: “日本列島”
  • Korean: “일본 열도”
  • Korean: “일본렬도”
  • Korean: “일본열도”
  • Kurdish: “Arxîpela Japonî”
  • Kurdish: “Komgirava Japonî”
  • Latvian: “Japānas arhipelāgs”
  • Latvian: “Japānas salu arhipelāgs”
  • Lithuanian: “Japonijos salynas”
  • Macedonian: “Јапонски Архипелаг”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Jepun”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ji̍t-pún lia̍t-tó”
  • Minangkabau: “Kapulauan Japang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Japan-arkipelet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Archipèla japonés”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illas de Japon”
  • Persian: “مجمع‌الجزایر ژاپن”
  • Polish: “Archipelag Japoński”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Japońskie”
  • Portuguese: “Arquipélago japonês”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Japonesas”
  • Romanian: “Arhipelagul japonez”
  • Russian: “архипелаг Японии”
  • Russian: “Японские острова”
  • Russian: “Японский архипелаг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Japanski arhipelag”
  • Sindhi: “جاپاني ٻيٽن جو ميڙ”
  • Sinhala: “ජපන් දූපත් සමූහය”
  • Slovak: “Japonské ostrovy”
  • Slovenian: “Japonsko otočje”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago de Japon”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago de Japón”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago de Japon”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago de Japón”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago japones”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago japonés”
  • Spanish: “archipiélago japonés”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago japonés”
  • Swedish: “Japanska övärlden”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Hapones”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะญี่ปุ่น”
  • Turkish: “Japon Takımadaları”
  • Ukrainian: “Острови Японії”
  • Ukrainian: “Перелік островів Японії”
  • Ukrainian: “Японський архіпелаг”
  • Ukrainian: “Японські острови”
  • Urdu: “جاپانی مجمع الجزائر”
  • Urdu: “جاپانی مجموعہ الجزائر”
  • Uzbek: “Yapon arxipelagi”
  • Vietnamese: “quần đảo Nhật Bản”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Nhật Bản”
  • Western Panjabi: “جاپانی مجموعہ الجزائر”
  • Wu Chinese: “日本列岛”
  • Yue Chinese: “日本列島”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Namasu and Akaiwa.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Roadside station Kuni and 湯川発電所.

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