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Mount Fuji seen across Lake Kawaguchi in cherry blossom season
Mount Fuji seen across Lake Kawaguchi in cherry blossom season. Midori, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ตEverything you need to know about Japan

Japan is a country stretched over 3,000 kilometres of ocean, from the deep winters of Hokkaido to the subtropical islands off Okinawa, with three quarters of the land too steep to build on and almost everyone living on the coastal strips that are left. Learn the shape of it across 47 prefectures, the facts that make daily life legible from Tokyo to Fukuoka, and the first 101 words of a language written in three scripts at once.

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Geography of Japan

An arc of roughly 14,000 islands sitting where several tectonic plates meet, three quarters of it mountain. What is left is a set of narrow coastal plains, and almost the whole country is pressed onto them.

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The Hida Mountains rising above the Azusa River at Kamikochi
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Know the shape of the country

Three maps of Japan itself, drawn from the same files the rounds are played on. The 47 prefectures are the frame everything else sits in; the cities and the sea that surrounds all of them go inside it.

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Places worth visiting

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Essential ยท Sacred volcano

Mount Fuji

Japanโ€™s sacred volcano. See it from Lake Kawaguchi, or climb it in the July and August season.

Pair Tokyo with Kyoto and Nara, then add Mount Fuji and Hiroshima, with the mountain villages of central Honshu to go further. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.

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Take Japanese with you

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Greetings and politeness

Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the eleven openers everything else builds on.

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Keep going one country deeper

When you have had your fill of Japan, the countries in white have a guide like this one, and every other has maps of its own.

Asia

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ซAfghanistan
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ญBahrain
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉBangladesh
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡นBhutan
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ณBrunei
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ญCambodia
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณChina
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณIndia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉIndonesia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ทIran
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถIraq
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑIsrael
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ดJordan
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฟKazakhstan
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ผKuwait
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ฌKyrgyzstan
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฆLaos
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡งLebanon
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พMalaysia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ปMaldives
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ณMongolia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฒMyanmar
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ตNepal
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ตNorth Korea
  • ๐Ÿ‡ด๐Ÿ‡ฒOman
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฐPakistan
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธPalestine
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญPhilippines
  • ๐Ÿ‡ถ๐Ÿ‡ฆQatar
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆSaudi Arabia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌSingapore
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ทSouth Korea
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฐSri Lanka
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡พSyria
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผTaiwan
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฏTajikistan
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ญThailand
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฑTimor-Leste
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฒTurkmenistan
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ชUnited Arab Emirates
  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฟUzbekistan
  • ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ณVietnam
  • ๐Ÿ‡พ๐Ÿ‡ชYemen

Europe

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฑAlbania
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฉAndorra
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฒArmenia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡นAustria
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฟAzerbaijan
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡พBelarus
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ชBelgium
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฆBosnia and Herzegovina
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฌBulgaria
  • ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ทCroatia
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡พCyprus
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟCzechia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐDenmark
  • ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ชEstonia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎFinland
  • ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ทFrance
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ชGeorgia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ชGermany
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ทGreece
  • ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บHungary
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธIceland
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ชIreland
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡นItaly
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฝ๐Ÿ‡ฐKosovo
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ปLatvia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ฎLiechtenstein
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡นLithuania
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บLuxembourg
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡นMalta
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฉMoldova
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡จMonaco
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ชMontenegro
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑNetherlands
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฐNorth Macedonia
  • ๐Ÿ“Northern Cyprus
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ดNorway
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑPoland
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡นPortugal
  • ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ดRomania
  • ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บRussia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฒSan Marino
  • ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธSerbia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐSlovakia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎSlovenia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธSpain
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ชSweden
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญSwitzerland
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ทTรผrkiye
  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆUkraine
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งUnited Kingdom
  • ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ฆVatican City

North America

  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ธBahamas
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆCanada
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ทCosta Rica
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡บCuba
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ดDominican Republic
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ปEl Salvador
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡นGuatemala
  • ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡นHaiti
  • ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ณHonduras
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ฒJamaica
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝMexico
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฎNicaragua
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฆPanama
  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธUnited States

Africa

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟAlgeria
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ดAngola
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฏBenin
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ผBotswana
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ซBurkina Faso
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฎBurundi
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฒCameroon
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ซCentral African Republic
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฉChad
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฎCรดte dโ€™Ivoire
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฉDemocratic Republic of the Congo
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฏDjibouti
  • ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌEgypt
  • ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ทEritrea
  • ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡นEthiopia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฆGabon
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ญGhana
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ณGuinea
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ผGuinea-Bissau
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ชKenya
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ทLiberia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พLibya
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฌMadagascar
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฑMali
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ทMauritania
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆMorocco
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฟMozambique
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฆNamibia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ชNiger
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌNigeria
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฌRepublic of the Congo
  • ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ผRwanda
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ณSenegal
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑSierra Leone
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ดSomalia
  • ๐Ÿ“Somaliland
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆSouth Africa
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ธSouth Sudan
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฉSudan
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฟTanzania
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฌTogo
  • ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณTunisia
  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฌUganda
  • ๐Ÿ“Western Sahara
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฒZambia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ผZimbabwe

Oceania

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บAustralia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฏFiji
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟNew Zealand
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฌPapua New Guinea

South America

  • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ทArgentina
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ดBolivia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ทBrazil
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฑChile
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ดColombia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡จEcuador
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡พGuyana
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡พParaguay
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ชPeru
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ทSuriname
  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡พUruguay
  • ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ชVenezuela

Get to know Tokyo before you go.

Explore Tokyo through two interactive maps, fifteen sights and a ten-section course.

Explore Tokyo โ†’