Kanto
The Kantō region of Japan, on the eastern side of the main island Honshu, is a broad plain dominated by and nearly synonymous with the megalopolis of Tokyo and its suburbs.Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Public domain.
Photo: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0.
Popular Destinations
Tokyo
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Tokyo is the enormous and wealthy capital of Japan, and also its main city, overflowing with culture, commerce, and most of all, people.
Yokohama
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On the western coast of Tokyo Bay directly south of Tokyo, Yokohama is the second largest city in Japan and one of the cities most used to seeing foreigners.
Tokyo
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Tokyo Metropolis covers the city of Tokyo, a bulk of the plain of Kanto and a chain of islands extending thousands of kilometers south.
Destinations
Chiba
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Chiba Prefecture is located directly east of Tokyo, and bordered by Ibaraki Prefecture to the north.
Kanagawa
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Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu.
Saitama
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Saitama Prefecture is in the eastern Kanto region of the main Japanese island Honshu.
Tochigi
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Tochigi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu.
Ibaraki
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Ibaraki Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu.
Kanto
- Type: Region with 42,600,000 residents
- Description: one of 8 regions in Japan encompassing 7 prefectures
- Neighbors: Chubu and Tohoku
- Categories: region of Japan, industrial region and locality
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
35.6823° or 35° 40' 56" northLongitude of centre
139.7532° or 139° 45' 11" eastPopulation
42,600,000Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 3123705041OpenStreetMap Feature
place=regionGeoNames ID
1860102Wikidata ID
Q132480Kanto Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Kanto
- Afrikaans: Kantō streek
- Arabic: Kantō
- Arabic: منطقة كانتو
- Arabic: منطقه كانتو
- Armenian: Կանտո
- Asturian: Kantō-chihō
- Asturian: Kantō
- Asturian: Rexón de Kantō
- Asturian: 関東地方
- Azerbaijani: Kanto
- Azerbaijani: Kanto regionu
- Balinese: Wawengkon Kantō
- Basque: Kanto eskualdea
- Basque: Kantō eskualdea
- Belarusian: Канто (рэгіён)
- Belarusian: Канто
- Belarusian: рэгіён Канто
- Bengali: কান্তোও অঞ্চল
- Breton: Rannvro Kantō
- Catalan: Kanto-chiho
- Catalan: Kanto
- Catalan: Kantoo-chihoo
- Catalan: Kantou-chihou
- Catalan: Kantō-chihō
- Catalan: Kantō
- Catalan: Regió de Kantō
- Catalan: regió de Kantō
- Catalan: 関東地方
- Central Kurdish: ناوچەی کانتوو
- Chinese: Kantô tē-hng
- Chinese: 关东地方 / 關東地方
- Chinese: 关东地方
- Chinese: 關八州
- Chinese: 關東地區
- Chinese: 關東地方
- Chinese: 關東廣域圈
- Chinese: 關東廣域圏
- Croatian: Kantō
- Czech: Kantó
- Czech: region Kantó
- Danish: Kantō
- Dutch: Kanto
- Dutch: Kantō
- Egyptian Arabic: منطقة كانتو
- English: Kantō region
- Esperanto: Kanto
- Esperanto: Kantoo
- Esperanto: Kanto regiono
- Esperanto: Kantō
- Esperanto: Regiono Kanto
- Estonian: Kantō
- Estonian: Kantō piirkond
- Finnish: Kantō
- French: Kanto
- French: Kantô
- French: Kantō
- French: Région Kanto
- French: Région du Kantō
- French: région du Kantō
- Galician: Kanto - 関東地方
- Galician: Kanto
- Galician: Rexión de Kantō
- Georgian: კანტო
- German: Kanto
- German: Kantou
- German: Kantō
- German: Kantō-Ebene
- German: Kwanto
- German: Region Kanto
- German: 関東地方
- Greek: Καν'τō
- Greek: Καν'τό
- Greek: Καντō
- Greek: Καντό
- Hakka Chinese: Kôan-tûng Thi-fông
- Hausa: Kantō
- Hebrew: קאנטו
- Hindi: कान्तो क्षेत्र
- Hungarian: Kantó
- Hungarian: Kantó régió
- Iloko: Kantō
- Indonesian: Hamparan Kanto
- Indonesian: Kantō
- Indonesian: Wilayah Kanto
- Indonesian: Wilayah Kantō
- Irish: Kantō
- Italian: Kanto
- Italian: Kantō
- Italian: Regione di Kantō
- Japanese: かんとうちほう
- Japanese: 一都六県
- Japanese: 関八州
- Japanese: 関東・東京地方
- Japanese: 関東人
- Japanese: 関東地区
- Japanese: 関東地方
- Khmer: តំបន់កាន់តូ
- Khmer: តំបន់ខាន់តូ
- Korean: 간또지방
- Korean: 간토
- Korean: 간토 광역권
- Korean: 간토 지방
- Korean: 간토지방
- Korean: 관동 지방
- Korean: 칸토
- Lao: Rehion ti Kantō
- Latvian: Kanto reģions
- Literary Chinese: 關東地方
- Lithuanian: Kanto regionas
- Lithuanian: Kantō regionas
- Macedo-Romanian: Kantō
- Macedonian: Канто
- Malay: Kanto
- Malay: Kawasan Kanto
- Malay: Kawasan Kantō
- Marathi: कांतो
- Min Nan Chinese: Koan-tang tē-hng
- Min Nan Chinese: Koan-tong tē-hng
- Northern Frisian: Kantō
- Norwegian: Kantōregionen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kanto
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kantoregionen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kantō
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kantōregionen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kantoregionen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kantōregionen
- Occitan (post 1500): Region de Kantō
- Occitan (post 1500): region de Kantō
- Pampanga: Kantō labuad
- Persian: منطقه کانتو
- Persian: ناحیه کانتو
- Persian: کانتو
- Polish: Region Kanto
- Polish: Region Kantō
- Portuguese: Kanto
- Portuguese: Kanto (região)
- Portuguese: Kantō
- Portuguese: Região de Kanto
- Portuguese: Região de Kantō
- Portuguese: Região do Kanto
- Portuguese: Região do Kantō
- Quechua: Kantō suyu
- Romanian: Kantō
- Romanian: Regiunea Kanto
- Romanian: Regiunea Kantō
- Russian: Канто
- Russian: Район Канто
- Russian: Регион Канто
- Scots: Kantō region
- Serbian: Kanto
- Serbian: Канто
- Serbo-Croatian: Kantō
- Sinhala: කැන්ටෝ කලාපය
- Slovak: Kantó
- Slovenian: Kanto
- South Azerbaijani: کانتو
- Spanish: Kanto
- Spanish: Kanto-chiho
- Spanish: Kanto-chihō
- Spanish: Kanto chiho
- Spanish: Kanto chihō
- Spanish: Kantó
- Spanish: Kantō
- Spanish: Kantō-chihō
- Spanish: Kantō chihō
- Spanish: Region de Kanto
- Spanish: Region de Kantō
- Spanish: Región de Kanto
- Spanish: Región de Kantō
- Sundanese: Kantō region
- Sundanese: Wewengkon Kantō
- Swedish: Kanto
- Swedish: Kantō
- Tagalog: Kantō
- Tagalog: Kantō region
- Tagalog: Rehiyong Kantō
- Tagalog: Rehiyon ng Kantō
- Thai: คันโต
- Thai: ภาคคันโต
- Thai: ภูมิภาคคันโต
- Turkish: Kanto
- Turkish: Kanto bölgesi
- Turkish: Kantō
- Turkish: Kantō Bölgesi
- Ukrainian: Канто
- Ukrainian: Регіон Канто
- Urdu: کانتو علاقہ
- Uzbek: Kanto viloyati
- Vietnamese: Kanto
- Vietnamese: Kantō
- Vietnamese: Quan Đông địa phương
- Vietnamese: Vùng Kanto
- Vietnamese: Vùng Kantō
- Waray (Philippines): Kantō
- Welsh: Kantō
- Western Panjabi: کینٹو
- Wu Chinese: 关东地方
- Yue Chinese: 關東地方
- East of the Barrier
- Kanto region
- Kantō District
- Quanto
- ناوچەی کانتۆ
- කන්තෝ කලාපය
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. 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 Kanto. Photo: Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0.