Shikoku
Shikoku is an oft-forgotten island in Japan. The smallest of Japan's Big Four with around four million inhabitants, it lies to the south of Honshu. The island is thought of as a rural backwater, with few must-see attractions, but a visit there can wash away those doubts; the mountainous inner regions offer some good hiking.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Iya Valley and Miyoshi.
Iya Valley
Iya Valley is a remote mountain valley deep in the heart of Shikoku. One of Japan's Three Hidden Valleys, Iya has dramatic mountain scenery, traditional thatched roof homes, and historic vine bridges.
Miyoshi
Miyoshi is a city located in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 June 2022, the city had an estimated population of 23,782 in 12103 households and a population density of 33 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 721.42 square kilometres.
Matsuyama
Matsuyama, meaning "pine mountain", is the homely capital of Ehime prefecture. Quite provincial yet hospitable to travelers, and a hub of business and shopping amongst the lazy calm of the countryside, Matsuyama has much to offer in the way of curious literary and cultural assets.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Tokushima and Ehime.
Tokushima
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Tokushima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Tokushima Prefecture has a population of 682,439 and has a geographic area of 4,146 km2.
Ehime
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Ehime Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Ehime Prefecture has a population of 1,334,841 and a geographic area of 5,676 km2.
Kagawa
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Kagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kagawa Prefecture has a population of 949,358 and is the smallest prefecture by geographic area at 1,877 square kilometres.
Kochi
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Kōchi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kōchi Prefecture has a population of 669,516 and has a geographic area of 7,103 km2.
Shikoku
- Type: Region with 4,000,000 residents
- Description: fourth largest island of Japan
- Also known as: “Shikoku Chiho”, “Shikoku Chihō”, “Shikoku I.”, “Shikoku Is.”, “Shikoku Island”, “Shikoku-chihō”, and “Sikoki”
- Categories: island, island of Japan, and tetrad
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
Discover Shikoku from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Shikoku” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Shikoku”
- Afrikaans: “Sjikokoe”
- Albanian: “Shikoku”
- Arabic: “شيكوكو”
- Armenian: “Սիկոկու”
- Asturian: “Rexón de Shikoku”
- Azerbaijani: “Şikoku”
- Balinese: “Shikoku”
- Banjar: “Shikoku”
- Bashkir: “Сикоку”
- Basque: “Shikoku”
- Belarusian: “Сікоку”
- Bengali: “শিকোকু”
- Bosnian: “Shikoku”
- Bosnian: “Šikoku”
- Breton: “Shikoku”
- Bulgarian: “Шикоку”
- Catalan: “Shikoku”
- Cebuano: “Shikoku”
- Central Kurdish: “شیکۆکو”
- Chinese: “Sikoku”
- Chinese: “四国”
- Chinese: “四国岛”
- Chinese: “四國”
- Chinese: “四國地方”
- Chinese: “四國島”
- Croatian: “Shikoku”
- Czech: “Šikoku”
- Danish: “Shikoku”
- Dutch: “Shikoku”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيكوكو”
- Esperanto: “Ŝikoku”
- Esperanto: “Ŝikokuo”
- Estonian: “Shikoku”
- Fiji Hindi: “Shikoku”
- Finnish: “Shikoku”
- French: “île de Shikoku”
- French: “Shikoku”
- Galician: “Shikoku”
- Georgian: “სიკოკუ”
- German: “Schikoku”
- German: “Shikoku”
- Greek: “Σικόκου”
- Hakka Chinese: “Shikoku”
- Hakka Chinese: “Si-koet”
- Hausa: “Shikoku”
- Hebrew: “שיקוקו”
- Hindi: “शिकोकू”
- Hungarian: “Sikoku”
- Icelandic: “Shikoku”
- Iloko: “Shikoku”
- Indonesian: “Shikoku”
- Irish: “Shikoku”
- Italian: “Shikoku”
- Japanese: “四国”
- Japanese: “四国地方”
- Kazakh: “Сикоку”
- Khmer: “កោះស៊ិកុគឹ”
- Khmer: “តំបន់ស៊ីកុគឹ”
- Kirghiz: “Сикоку”
- Korean: “시코쿠”
- Kurdish: “Shikoku”
- Latin: “Insula Shikokuensis”
- Latin: “Sicocus”
- Latin: “Xicoca Insula”
- Latin: “Xicoca”
- Latvian: “Sikoku”
- Latvian: “Šikoku”
- Literary Chinese: “四國”
- Lithuanian: “Šikoku”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Shikoku”
- Macedonian: “Шикоку”
- Malay: “Shikoku”
- Malayalam: “ഷികോകു”
- Marathi: “शिकोकू”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sù-kok”
- Mingrelian: “სიკოკუ”
- Mongolian: “Шикокү”
- Nepali: “सिकोकु”
- Newari: “शिकोकु”
- Northern Frisian: “Shikoku”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shikoku”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shikoku”
- Norwegian: “Shikoku”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shikoku”
- Ossetian: “Сикоку”
- Pampanga: “Shikoku”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਕੋਕੂ”
- Persian: “شیکوکو”
- Polish: “Sikoku”
- Portuguese: “Shikoku”
- Quechua: “Shikoku”
- Romanian: “Shikoku”
- Russian: “Сикоку”
- Russian: “Ши-Коку”
- Russian: “Шикок”
- Russian: “Шикоку”
- Samogitian: “Šėkoku”
- Sardinian: “Shikoku”
- Scots: “Shikoku”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Shikoku”
- Serbian: “Шикоку”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shikoku”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šikoku”
- Sindhi: “شيڪوڪو”
- Sinhala: “ෂිකෝකු”
- Slovak: “Šikoku”
- Slovenian: “Šikoku”
- South Azerbaijani: “شیکوکو”
- Spanish: “Región de Shikoku”
- Spanish: “Shikoku”
- Sundanese: “Shikoku”
- Swahili: “Shikoku”
- Swedish: “Shikoku”
- Tagalog: “Shikoku”
- Tamil: “சிகொக்கு”
- Tatar: “Сикоку”
- Thai: “เกาะชิโกกุ”
- Thai: “เกาะชิโกะกุ”
- Tok Pisin: “Shikoku”
- Turkish: “Shikoku”
- Tuvinian: “Шикоку”
- Uighur: “شىكوكۇ”
- Ukrainian: “Сікоку”
- Ukrainian: “Шікоку”
- Urdu: “شیکوکو”
- Vietnamese: “Shikoku”
- Vietnamese: “Xi-cô-cư”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shikoku”
- Welsh: “Shikoku”
- Western Frisian: “Sjikokû”
- Western Panjabi: “شیکوکو”
- Wu Chinese: “四国岛”
- Yue Chinese: “四國”
- “Šėkoku”
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