Chugoku
Chūgoku is the westernmost part of the main Japanese island Honshu. Aside from Hiroshima, most of Chugoku is probably well off the beaten track for a brief visit to Japan; but if time permits, you'll find a region full of memorable sights and experiences, and a side of Japan that's completely unlike the better-known destinations in Kansai and Kanto.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Hiroshima
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Hiroshima is an industrial city of wide boulevards and criss-crossing rivers along the coast of the Seto Inland Sea.
Okayama
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Okayama is a major transit hub for western Japan. But with white peaches, a brooding black castle, and the famous garden of Kōrakuen, there are plenty of reasons to catch a later train and get out of the station to explore.
Matsue
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Matsue is an old castle town at the heart of Izumo Province, and with a population of approximately 207,000 is its largest city.
Destinations
Hiroshima
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Hiroshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu.
Okayama
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Okayama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu.
Yamaguchi
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Yamaguchi Prefecture is in the western Chugoku region of the main Japanese island Honshu.
Shimane
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Shimane Prefecture is in the western Chugoku region of the main Japanese island Honshu.
Tottori
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Tottori Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu.
Chugoku
- Type: Region with 7,560,000 residents
- Description: region of Japan
- Neighbors: Kansai
- Category: region of Japan
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of centre
34.5° or 34° 30' northLongitude of centre
133° eastPopulation
7,560,000Elevation
372 metres (1,220 feet)GeoNames ID
1864492Wikidata ID
Q127864Chugoku Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Chūgoku
- Arabic: تشوغوكو
- Arabic: منطقة تشوغوكو
- Arabic: منطقه تشوغوكو
- Armenian: Տյուգոկու
- Azerbaijani: Çuqoku
- Azerbaijani: Çuqoku regionu
- Balinese: Wawengkon Chūgoku
- Basque: Chugoku eskualdea
- Basque: Chūgoku eskualdea
- Belarusian: Цюгоку
- Belarusian: рэгіён Цюгоку
- Bengali: চুউগোকু অঞ্চল
- Bulgarian: Чугоку
- Catalan: Chugoku
- Catalan: Chūgoku
- Catalan: regió de Chūgoku
- Central Kurdish: ناوچەی چووگۆکو
- Chinese: Tyûgoku tē-hng
- Chinese: 中国地区
- Chinese: 中国地方
- Chinese: 中國地區
- Chinese: 中國地方
- Chinese: 山阴山阳地方
- Chinese: 山陰山陽地方
- Croatian: Chugoku
- Croatian: Chūgoku
- Croatian: Chūgoku regija
- Czech: Čúgoku
- Danish: Chūgoku
- Dutch: Chugoku
- Dutch: Chugoku regio
- Dutch: Chūgoku
- Egyptian Arabic: منطقه تشوجوكو
- English: Chūgoku region
- English: San'in-San'yō region
- Esperanto: Ĉugoku-regiono
- Esperanto: Ĉugoku
- Esperanto: Ĉugokuo
- Finnish: Chugoku
- Finnish: Chuugoku
- Finnish: Chūgoku
- French: Chugoku
- French: Chûgoku
- French: Chūgoku
- French: Region de Chugoku
- French: Région de Chugoku
- French: Région de Chûgoku
- French: Région de Chūgoku
- French: Région du Chūgoku
- Galician: Rexión de Chūgoku
- Georgian: ჩუგოკუ
- German: Chugoku
- German: Chūgoku
- German: Region Chūgoku
- German: San'in
- German: San'in-San'yo
- German: San'in-San'yō
- German: Sanin
- German: Sanin-Sanyo
- German: Sanin-Sanyō
- German: San’in
- German: San’in-San’yō
- Hakka Chinese: Chûng-koet Thi-fông
- Hausa: Chūgoku
- Hebrew: צ'וגוקו
- Hindi: चूगोकु क्षेत्र
- Hindi: चूगोकू क्षेत्र
- Hungarian: Csúgoku
- Iloko: Chūgoku
- Indonesian: Chugoku
- Indonesian: Wilayah Chugoku
- Indonesian: Wilayah Chūgoku
- Irish: Chūgoku
- Italian: Chugoku
- Italian: Chūgoku
- Italian: Regione di Chugoku
- Italian: Regione di Chūgoku
- Japanese: 中国地方
- Japanese: 中國地方
- Japanese: 山陰山陽地方
- Japanese: 陰陽地方
- Khmer: តំបន់ជឺហ្គុកឹ
- Korean: 산인·산요 지방
- Korean: 주고쿠
- Korean: 주고쿠 지방
- Korean: 주코쿠 지방
- Korean: 쥬고쿠 지방
- Lao: Rehion ti Chūgoku
- Latvian: Čjūgoku reģions
- Literary Chinese: 中國地方
- Lithuanian: Čiūgoku regionas
- Macedo-Romanian: Chūgoku
- Macedonian: Чугоку
- Malay: Chūgoku
- Malay: Kawasan Chugoku
- Malay: Kawasan Chūgoku
- Marathi: चुगोकू
- Min Nan Chinese: Tyûgoku tē-hng
- Northern Frisian: Chūgoku
- Norwegian: Chūgokuregionen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chugoku
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chugokuregionen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chūgoku
- Norwegian Bokmål: Chūgokuregionen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chugoku
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chugokuregionen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chūgoku
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Chūgokuregionen
- Pampanga: Chūgoku labuad
- Persian: منطقه چوگوکو
- Persian: ناحيه چوگوكو
- Persian: ناحیهٔ چوگوکو
- Persian: ناحیه چوگوکو
- Persian: چوگوکو
- Polish: Region Chugoku
- Polish: Region Chūgoku
- Portuguese: Chugoku
- Portuguese: Chūgoku
- Portuguese: Região de Chugoku
- Portuguese: Região de Chūgoku
- Portuguese: San'in-San'yō
- Quechua: Chūgoku suyu
- Romanian: Chūgoku
- Romanian: Regiunea Chugoku
- Romanian: Regiunea Chūgoku
- Russian: Район Тюгоку
- Russian: Регион Тюгоку
- Russian: Тюгоку
- Samogitian: Čiūgoku regijuons
- Samogitian: Čiūgoku regiuons
- Samogitian: Čiūguoku regėuons
- Sardinian: Chūgoku
- Scots: Chūgoku region
- Serbian: Čugoku
- Serbian: Чугоку
- Serbo-Croatian: Chūgoku
- Slovak: Čúgoku
- Slovenian: Čugoku
- South Azerbaijani: چوقوکو بؤلگهسی
- Spanish: Chugoku
- Spanish: Chūgoku
- Spanish: Region de Chugoku
- Spanish: Region de Chūgoku
- Spanish: Región de Chugoku
- Spanish: Región de Chūgoku
- Sundanese: Chūgoku
- Sundanese: Wewengkon Chūgoku
- Swedish: Chugoku-regionen
- Swedish: Chugoku
- Swedish: Chugokuregionen
- Swedish: Chūgoku-chihō
- Swedish: Chūgoku
- Tagalog: Chūgoku
- Tagalog: Chūgoku region
- Tagalog: Rehiyong Chūgoku
- Tagalog: Rehiyon ng Chūgoku
- Thai: ชูโงกุ
- Turkish: Chugoku
- Turkish: Chūgoku
- Turkish: Chūgoku Bölgesi
- Turkish: Çugoku
- Ukrainian: Регіон Тюґоку
- Ukrainian: Регіон Чюґоку
- Ukrainian: Тюґоку
- Urdu: چوگوکو علاقہ
- Vietnamese: Chugoku
- Vietnamese: Chugoku chiho
- Vietnamese: Chūgoku
- Vietnamese: Vùng Chugoku
- Vietnamese: Vùng San'in-San'yō
- Waray (Philippines): Chūgoku
- Welsh: Chugoku
- Welsh: Chūgoku
- Welsh: Rhanbarth Chūgoku
- Western Panjabi: چوگوکو
- Wu Chinese: 中国地区
- Wu Chinese: 中国地方
- Yue Chinese: 中國地方
- Chikoku
- Chugoku Chiho
- Chūgoku Chihō
- Chūgoku District
- ტიუგოკუ
- តំបន់ឈឺហ្កុគឹ
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Chugoku. Photo: Gilad Rom, CC BY 2.0.