Tochigi
Tochigi Prefecture is a prefecture in the Kanto region of Japan. Visit Tochigi is the prefecture's official multilingual guide site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Utsunomiya and Nikko.
Utsunomiya
Utsunomiya is the capital and largest city of Tochigi Prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan. As of 1 July 2023, the city had an estimated population of 513,584, and a population density of 1,232 persons per square kilometre.
Nikko
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Nikkō is a town of 76,000 people to the north of Tokyo, in Tochigi Prefecture. Attractions include the mausoleum of shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu and that of his grandson Iemitsu, and the Futarasan Shrine, which dates to the year 767 AD.
Ashikaga
Ashikaga is a city in Tochigi prefecture, Japan, near the prefecture's border with Gunma. Ashikaga makes an ideal day trip from Tokyo. It's a small city with a lot of history packed into an attractive and easily walkable radius, from the mound tombs and…
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Oyama and Nasushiobara.
Oyama
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Oyama is the second most populous city in southern Tochigi prefecture, Japan. Oyama is above all a major train junction, and most visitors won't stop much longer than it takes to change trains.
Nasushiobara
Nasushiobara is a city located in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2020, the city had an estimated population of 115,794 in 48,437 households, and a population density of 67 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 592.74 square kilometres.
Kanuma
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Kanuma is a city located in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2020, the city had an estimated population of 94,926 in 36,795 households, and a population density of 190 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 490.64 km2.
Tochigi
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Tochigi is a city located in Tochigi Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. As of 1 June 2023, the city had an estimated population of 151,842 in 66,018 households, and a population density of 458 persons per km2.
Sano
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Sano is a city in Tochigi prefecture, Japan, adjacent to Ashikaga, Tatebayashi, Tochigi, Kanuma and Midori.
Mooka
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Mooka is a city located in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2020, the city had an estimated population of 78,720 in 30,203 households, and a population density of 476 persons per km2.
Mashiko
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Mashiko is a rural town in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Mashiko is famous for its pottery, known as Mashiko yaki. Mashiko is the site of Saimyoji temple, one of the oldest temples in Tochigi prefecture, and the shrine of the Utsunomiya han, located in Kami-Oba.
Nasu
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Nasu is a sprawling rural town in northern Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Parts of it are within the boundaries of Nikko National Park.
Kinugawa
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Kinugawa Onsen is a hot spring resort in the city of Nikkō, Tochigi, Japan. The place is named after the Kinugawa River, which flows through it.
Kirifuri Highlands
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The Kirifuri Highlands is a highland area between Nikko and Kuriyama in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, on the slopes of the Japanese Alps. The main activities in the area are skiing in winter and hiking in summer and autumn.
Tochigi
Latitude of center
36.6782° or 36° 40′ 42″ northLongitude of center
139.8097° or 139° 48′ 35″ eastPopulation
1,940,000Elevation
239 metres (784 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 1108891359OpenStreetMap feature
place=province
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Tochigi” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Prefektur Tochigi”
- Afrikaans: “Tochigi Prefektuur”
- Afrikaans: “Tochigi-prefektuur”
- Arabic: “توتشيغي”
- Arabic: “محافظة توتشيغي”
- Armenian: “Տոտիգի (պրեֆեկտուրա)”
- Armenian: “Տոտիգի”
- Asturian: “prefeutura de Tochigi”
- Asturian: “Tochigi (prefeutura)”
- Asturian: “Tochigi (Xapón)”
- Asturian: “Tochigi”
- Azerbaijani: “Toçiqi prefekturası”
- Azerbaijani: “Totiqi”
- Balinese: “Préféktur Tochigi”
- Basque: “Tochigi”
- Belarusian: “прэфектура Татыгі”
- Belarusian: “Татыгі”
- Bengali: “তোচিগি প্রশাসনিক অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Точиги”
- Catalan: “prefectura de Tochigi”
- Catalan: “Prefectura de Tochigi”
- Cebuano: “Tochigi-ken”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای تۆچیگی”
- Central Kurdish: “تۆچیگی”
- Chechen: “Тотиги (префектура)”
- Chechen: “Тотиги”
- Chinese: “Totigi-koān”
- Chinese: “栃木县”
- Chinese: “栃木縣”
- Croatian: “Prefektura Tochigi”
- Croatian: “Tochigi”
- Czech: “prefektura Točigi”
- Czech: “Prefektura Točigi”
- Danish: “Tochigi-ken”
- Danish: “Tochigi-præfekturet”
- Danish: “栃木県”
- Dutch: “Tochigi”
- Esperanto: “gubernio Toĉigi”
- Esperanto: “Gubernio Toĉigi”
- Esperanto: “JP-09”
- Esperanto: “Toĉigi-ken”
- Estonian: “Tochigi prefektuur”
- Finnish: “Tochigi-ken”
- Finnish: “Tochigin prefektuuri”
- French: “préfecture de Tochigi”
- French: “Préfecture de Tochigi”
- French: “Tochigi”
- Galician: “Prefectura de Tochigi”
- Georgian: “ტოტიგის პრეფექტურა”
- German: “JP-09”
- German: “Präfektur Tochigi”
- German: “Tochigi”
- Greek: “Τοτσίγκι”
- Gujarati: “ટોચીગી પ્રીફેકચર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tochigi-yen”
- Hebrew: “טוצ’יגי”
- Hindi: “तोशीगी प्रीफेक्चर”
- Hungarian: “Tochigi prefektúra”
- Hungarian: “Tocsigi prefektúra”
- Iloko: “Prefectura ti Tochigi”
- Iloko: “Prepektura ti Tochigi”
- Iloko: “Tochigi”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Tochigi”
- Irish: “Maoracht Tochigi”
- Italian: “prefettura di Tochigi”
- Italian: “Prefettura di Tochigi”
- Italian: “Tochigi”
- Japanese: “Tochigi-ken”
- Japanese: “とちぎ”
- Japanese: “トチギ”
- Japanese: “とちぎけん”
- Japanese: “トチギケン”
- Japanese: “栃木”
- Japanese: “栃木県”
- Kannada: “ತೋಚಿಗಿ ಪ್ರಿಫೆಕ್ಚರ್”
- Kannada: “ತೋಚಿಗಿ”
- Korean: “도찌기현”
- Korean: “도치기 현”
- Korean: “도치기현”
- Korean: “토치기 현”
- Latvian: “Točigi prefektūra”
- Latvian: “Totigi prefektūra”
- Literary Chinese: “櫔木縣”
- Lithuanian: “Tochigi prefektūra”
- Lithuanian: “Točigi prefektūra”
- Lithuanian: “Točigio prefektūra”
- Macedonian: “Точиги”
- Malay: “Tochigi”
- Malay: “Wilayah Tochigi”
- Manipuri: “ꯇꯣꯆꯤꯒꯤ ꯂꯝꯈꯥꯢ”
- Marathi: “टोचिगी”
- Marathi: “तोचिगी प्रांत”
- Marathi: “तोचिगी”
- Mazanderani: “توچیگی استان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Tochigi-gâing”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tochigi-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tochigi-kōan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Totigi Koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Totigi-koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Totigi-kōan”
- Nepali: “टोचिगी प्रदेश”
- Northern Frisian: “Tochigi (Prefektüür)”
- Northern Frisian: “Tochigi”
- Northern Sami: “Tochigi prefektuvra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tochigi prefektur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tochigi prefektur”
- Norwegian: “Tochigi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Prefectura de Tochigi”
- Ossetian: “Тотиги (префектурæ)”
- Ossetian: “Тотиги”
- Persian: “استان توچیگی”
- Polish: “Prefektura Tochigi”
- Polish: “Tochigi”
- Portuguese: “Prefeitura de Tochigi”
- Portuguese: “Tochigi”
- Romanian: “Prefectura Tochigi”
- Romanian: “Tochigi”
- Russian: “Тотиги”
- Scots: “Tochigi Prefectur”
- Serbian: “Префектура Точиги”
- Serbian: “Точиги”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Tochigi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prefektura Točigi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tochigi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Točigi”
- Sinhala: “ටොචිගි ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Točigi”
- Slovenian: “Prefektura Točigi”
- South Azerbaijani: “توچیقی اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Prefectura de Tochigi”
- Spanish: “Tochigi Japon”
- Spanish: “Tochigi Japón”
- Spanish: “Tochigi Ken”
- Spanish: “Tochigi-ken”
- Spanish: “Tochigi”
- Sundanese: “Tochigi Prefecture”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Tochigi”
- Swedish: “Tochigi prefektur”
- Swedish: “Tochigi”
- Tagalog: “Prepektura ng Tochigi”
- Tagalog: “Prepekturang Totsigi”
- Tagalog: “Tochigi Prefecture”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Тотиги”
- Tajik: “Префектураи Точиги”
- Tamil: “டோச்சிகி ப்ரீபெக்ட்டுறே”
- Tatar: “Тотиги (префектура)”
- Tatar: “Тотиги”
- Telugu: “టోచిగి ప్రిఫెక్చర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดโทจิงิ”
- Turkish: “Tochigi prefektörlüğü”
- Turkish: “Tochigi”
- Uighur: “توچىگى ناھىيىسى”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Тотігі”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Тотіґі”
- Ukrainian: “Префектура Точіґі”
- Ukrainian: “Тотіґі”
- Urdu: “توچیگی پریفیکچر”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Tochigi”
- Vietnamese: “Tochigi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tochigi Prefecture”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tochigi”
- Welsh: “Tochigi”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع ٹوچیگی”
- Wu Chinese: “栃木县”
- Yue Chinese: “栃木”
- Yue Chinese: “栃木县”
- Yue Chinese: “栃木縣”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Tochigi”. Photo: Daderot, Public domain.