Signal verified · updated 2026-09-03
Honshu
Japan's largest island and the world's second-most populous island; Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima and Mt Fuji.
- Formation
- volcanic arc; Japanese Alps spine; earthquake-prone subduction zone
- Population
- 104M
- Water
- Pacific Ocean
- Access
- easy
Every required movement
The passage
to Honshu.
Fly to Tokyo (HND/NRT), Osaka (KIX), Nagoya (NGO); Shinkansen from all main islands; ferries from Hokkaido/Shikoku/Kyushu.
- 01Tokyo Haneda (HND)
Nearest recorded air access
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 02Water crossing
Seikan ferry alternatives, Seto Inland Sea ferries, Sado Island ferries.
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 03Entry check
Japan visa-exemption for many nationalities.
Schedule or condition may change · verify
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Seventh-largest island in the world. Political and economic core of Japan since the Edo period; linked to all other main islands by tunnel/bridge.
Jomon/Yayoi cultures; Yamato state; samurai shogunates (Kamakura, Edo/Tokyo); Meiji Restoration 1868; WWII devastation; postwar economic miracle.
Field ledger
The useful
details.
- Coordinates
- 36.50° N · 138.00° E
- Sovereignty
- Japan · part of country
- Nearest mainland
- Korea (~200 km via Tsushima Strait); connected by bridge/tunnel to Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku
- Best recorded window
- March–May (sakura), October–November (autumn).
- Permits / entry
- Japan visa-exemption for many nationalities.
- Languages
- Japanese
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Notes from
the crossing.
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