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Tohoku

Tohoku is the northeastern region of 's island. In winter, the Snow Country of the western Japan Sea coast racks up some of the highest snowfall figures in the world, which also means great skiing and lots of hot springs to warm up in.
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Top destinations include Sendai and Fukushima.

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is the largest city in the Tohoku region of 's island, with around 1 million people. It is the capital of prefecture. As everyone here will tell you, "Sendai is not too big and not too small, it's very convenient and it's close to both the sea and the mountains." hot springs area of the city has a separate article.

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is the capital city of in , in the Basin and its surrounding parts. Known for its fruit production, is particularly proud of their peaches, but pears and apples and persimmons are also grown.

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, officially City, is the capital city of , in the Tōhoku region of . As of 1 August 2023, the city had an estimated population of 264,945 in 136,781 households, and a population density of 321 people per square kilometer spread over the city's total area of 824.61 km2.

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Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region. The prefecture's capital, largest city, and namesake is the city of . is the northernmost prefecture on 's main island, , and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the…

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Prefecture is a prefecture of located in the Tōhoku region of . Prefecture has a population of 1,771,100 and has a geographic area of 13,783.90 square kilometres.

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Prefecture is a prefecture of located in the Tōhoku region of . Its population is estimated 915,691 as of 1 August 2023 and its geographic area is 11,637 km2.

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Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of . It is the second-largest Japanese prefecture at 15,275 square kilometres, with a population of 1,165,886.

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Prefecture is a prefecture of located in the Tōhoku region of . It has a population of 1,005,926 and an area of 9,325 km2. Its neighbours are to the north, to the east, to the south, and to the southwest.

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Prefecture is in the northeastern Tohoku region of the main island . On 11th March 2011 the prefecture was hit by an earthquake with a 9.0 magnitude followed by a tsunami and several aftershocks.

Tohoku

Latitude of center
39° north
Longitude of center
141° east
Population
9,020,000
Elevation
146 metres (479 feet)
Geo­Names ID
2110769
Wiki­data ID
Q129465
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tohoku” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tohoku streek”
  • Afrikaans: “Tohoku”
  • Arabic: “توهوكو”
  • Arabic: “منطقة توهوكو”
  • Arabic: “منطقه توهوكو”
  • Armenian: “Տոհոկու”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tohoku regionu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tohoku”
  • Balinese: “Wawengkon Tōhoku”
  • Basque: “Tohoku eskualdea”
  • Basque: “Tōhoku eskualdea”
  • Basque: “Tōhoku”
  • Belarusian: “рэгіён Тахоку”
  • Belarusian: “Тахоку”
  • Bengali: “তোওহোকু অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Мичиноку”
  • Bulgarian: “Тохоку”
  • Burmese: “တိုးဟိုခု ဒေသ”
  • Burmese: “တိုးဟိုခုဒေသ”
  • Catalan: “Michinoku”
  • Catalan: “regió de Tōhoku”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Tōhoku”
  • Catalan: “Tōhoku-chihō”
  • Catalan: “Tōhoku”
  • Catalan: “Tōhokuchihō”
  • Catalan: “Toohoku-chihoo”
  • Catalan: “Toohokuchihoo”
  • Catalan: “Touhoku-chihou”
  • Catalan: “Touhokuchihou”
  • Catalan: “みちのく”
  • Catalan: “東北地方”
  • Central Bikol: “Rehiyon Tōhoku”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناوچەی تۆھۆکو”
  • Chinese: “Tôhoku tē-hng”
  • Chinese: “东北地方”
  • Chinese: “東北地區”
  • Chinese: “東北地方”
  • Croatian: “Tōhoku regija”
  • Croatian: “Tohoku”
  • Croatian: “Tōhoku”
  • Czech: “Tóhoku”
  • Danish: “Tōhoku”
  • Dutch: “Tohoku”
  • Dutch: “Tōhoku”
  • Esperanto: “Nordorienta Regiono”
  • Esperanto: “regiono Tohoku”
  • Esperanto: “regiono Tōhoku”
  • Esperanto: “Tohoku”
  • Esperanto: “Tōhoku”
  • Estonian: “Tōhoku”
  • Finnish: “Tohoku”
  • Finnish: “Tōhoku”
  • French: “région de Tohoku”
  • French: “région du Tōhoku”
  • French: “Région du Tōhoku”
  • French: “Tohoku”
  • French: “Tôhoku”
  • French: “Tōhoku”
  • Galician: “Rexión de Tōhoku”
  • Galician: “Tōhoku”
  • Georgian: “ტოჰოკუ”
  • German: “Tohoku”
  • German: “Tōhoku”
  • Greek: “Τοουχόκου”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tōhoku”
  • Hebrew: “טוהוקו”
  • Hindi: “तोहोकू क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “Tóhoku”
  • Icelandic: “Tōhoku”
  • Iloko: “Rehion ti Tohoku”
  • Iloko: “Rehion ti Tōhoku”
  • Iloko: “Tōhoku”
  • Indonesian: “Tohoku”
  • Indonesian: “Wilayah Tohoku”
  • Indonesian: “Wilayah Tōhoku”
  • Irish: “Tōhoku”
  • Italian: “Regione di Tohoku”
  • Italian: “Regione di Tōhoku”
  • Italian: “Tohoku”
  • Italian: “Tōhoku”
  • Japanese: “とうほくちほう”
  • Japanese: “奥羽地方”
  • Japanese: “東北”
  • Japanese: “東北6県”
  • Japanese: “東北7州”
  • Japanese: “東北七州”
  • Japanese: “東北地方”
  • Japanese: “陸奥地方”
  • Khmer: “តំបន់តុហុកកឹ”
  • Khmer: “តំបន់ថូហុគឹ”
  • Korean: “도호꾸 지방”
  • Korean: “도호꾸”
  • Korean: “도호쿠 지방”
  • Korean: “도호쿠”
  • Korean: “동북 지방”
  • Korean: “토호쿠 지방”
  • Korean: “토호쿠”
  • Latin: “Tohoku”
  • Latin: “Tōhoku”
  • Latvian: “Tohoku reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Tohoku regionas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tōhoku regionas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tohoku”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Tōhoku”
  • Macedonian: “Тохоку”
  • Malay: “Kawasan Tohoku”
  • Malay: “Kawasan Tōhoku”
  • Malay: “Tohoku”
  • Malay: “Tōhoku”
  • Marathi: “तोहोकू”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tang-pak tē-hng”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tōhoku”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tohoku”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tōhoku”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tohokuregionen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tōhokuregionen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tohoku”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tōhoku”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tohokuregionen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tōhokuregionen”
  • Norwegian: “Tōhokuregionen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tōhoku”
  • Pampanga: “Tōhoku labuad”
  • Persian: “توهوكو”
  • Persian: “توهوکو”
  • Persian: “منطقه توهوکو”
  • Persian: “ناحيه توهوكو”
  • Persian: “ناحیه توهوکو”
  • Persian: “ناحیهٔ توهوکو”
  • Polish: “Region Tōhoku”
  • Polish: “Tohoku”
  • Polish: “Tōhoku”
  • Portuguese: “Michinoku”
  • Portuguese: “região de Tohoku”
  • Portuguese: “região de Tōhoku”
  • Portuguese: “Tohoku”
  • Portuguese: “Tōhoku”
  • Quechua: “Tōhoku suyu”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Tohoku”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Tōhoku”
  • Romanian: “Tōhoku”
  • Russian: “Район Тохоку”
  • Russian: “Регион Тохоку”
  • Russian: “Тохоку”
  • Sardinian: “Tōhoku”
  • Scots: “Tōhoku region”
  • Serbian: “Tohoku”
  • Serbian: “Тохоку”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tōhoku”
  • Sindhi: “ٽوهوڪو ريجن”
  • Sinhala: “තෝහොකු කලාපය”
  • Slovak: “Mičinoku”
  • Slovak: “Tóhoku”
  • Slovenian: “Tohoku”
  • Slovenian: “Tōhoku”
  • South Azerbaijani: “توهوکو بؤلگه‌سی”
  • Spanish: “Michinoku”
  • Spanish: “Region de Tohoku”
  • Spanish: “Region de Tōhoku”
  • Spanish: “Región de Tohoku”
  • Spanish: “Región de Tōhoku”
  • Spanish: “Tohoku”
  • Spanish: “Tōhoku”
  • Sundanese: “Tōhoku region”
  • Sundanese: “Wewengkon Tōhoku”
  • Swedish: “Michinoku”
  • Swedish: “Tohoku”
  • Swedish: “Tōhoku”
  • Tagalog: “Rehiyon ng Tōhoku”
  • Tagalog: “Rehiyong Tōhoku”
  • Tagalog: “Tōhoku region”
  • Tagalog: “Tōhoku”
  • Thai: “โทโฮกุ”
  • Thai: “โทโฮะกุ”
  • Turkish: “Tōhoku Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Tohoku”
  • Turkish: “Tōhoku”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон Тохоку”
  • Urdu: “توہوکو علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Tōhoku viloyati”
  • Vietnamese: “Đông Bắc địa phương”
  • Vietnamese: “Tohoku”
  • Vietnamese: “Tōhoku”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng Tohoku”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng Tōhoku”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tōhoku”
  • Welsh: “Tohoku”
  • Welsh: “Tōhoku”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹوہوکو”
  • Wu Chinese: “东北地方”
  • Yue Chinese: “東北地方”
  • “Tōhoku”
  • “Tōhoku Chihō”
  • “Tohoku Chihou”
  • “Tōhoku-chihō”
  • “東北地方”

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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 “Tohoku”. Photo: Fisherman, CC BY-SA 3.0.