Okinoshima
Okinoshima is an island in Fukuoka prefecture of Japan. It is home to an extremely sacred Shinto shrine and is notoriously almost impossible to get into— in fact, no women whatsoever are allowed on the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Indiana jo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Indiana jo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Fukuoka, Japan
- Also known as: “Okino Sima”
- Historically known as: “Colnet Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Koyajima.
Okinoshima
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Satellite Map
Discover Okinoshima from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Okinoshima” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Օկինոշիմա”
- Armenian: “Օկինոսիմա (կղզի)”
- Azerbaijani: “Okinoşima adası”
- Cebuano: “Okino-shima (pulo sa Hapon, lat 34,24, long 130,10)”
- Cebuano: “Okino-shima”
- Central Bikol: “Okinoshima”
- Chinese: “冲之岛”
- Chinese: “沖之島”
- Chinese: “衝之島”
- Croatian: “Okinoshima”
- Czech: “Okinošima”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوكينوشيما”
- Finnish: “Okinoshima”
- French: “île Oki”
- French: “Oki-no-shima”
- French: “Okino-shima”
- French: “Shōsōin des mers”
- German: “Okinoshima”
- Greek: “Οκινοσίμα”
- Hebrew: “אוקינושימה”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Okinoshima”
- Italian: “Okinoshima”
- Japanese: “沖ノ島”
- Korean: “오키노섬”
- Latin: “Insula Ocinosima”
- Lithuanian: “Okinošima”
- Malayalam: “ഒകിനോഷിമ”
- Manipuri: “ꯑꯣꯀꯤꯅꯣꯁꯤꯃ (ꯐꯨꯀꯨꯑꯣꯀ)”
- Manipuri: “ꯑꯣꯀꯤꯅꯣꯁꯤꯃ”
- Persian: “اوکینوشیما”
- Portuguese: “Okinoshima”
- Russian: “Окиносима”
- Thai: “โอกิโนชิมะ”
- Turkish: “Okinoşima Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Окіносіма”
- Urdu: “اوکینوشیما”
- Vietnamese: “Okinoshima”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Okinoshima”. Photo: Indiana jo, CC BY-SA 4.0.