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This is a list of islands of Japan. The four main islands of Japan are:

• Hokkaidō
• Honshū
• Kyūshū
• Shikoku

List of smaller islands of Japan

Japan has 6,852 islands in total as of 1988, of which 426 are inhabited. This figure may include disputed areas and tidal islands and artificial islands, but all islands are at least 0.1 square kilometres (0.039 sq mi) in size.

The Northern Territories

These are the four disputed Kuril Islands. See also Kuril Island conflict.

• Etorofu
• Habomai
• Kunashiri
• Shikotan

Hokkaido

• Kamome Island
• Ko Island (Oshima)
• Ōshima
• Okushiri Island
• Teuri Island
• Rebun Island
• Rishiri Island
• Yagishiri Island

Islands off Honshu in Sea of Japan

• Liancourt Rocks (Takeshima/Dokdo) - disputed, administered by the Republic of Korea
• Oki
• Sado
• Todo Island
• Mitsukejima

Islands in Tokyo Bay (Artificial Islands)

• Dream Island (Yume No Shima)
• Odaiba
• Saru Island (natural)
• Jonan Island ja:城南島
• Heiwa Island ja:平和島
• Showa Island ja:昭和島
• Keihin Island ja:京浜島
• Tokyo International Airport
• Katsushima ja:勝島
• Hakkeijima ja:横浜・八景島シーパラダイス
• Higashi Ogijima ja:東扇島
• Wakasu (若洲)
• Oogishima, ja:扇島

Islands in Osaka Bay (Artificial Islands)

• Maishima, ja:舞洲
• Yumeshima, ja:夢洲
• Sakishima, ja:咲洲
• Kansai International Airport
• Kobe Airport
• Port Island
• Rokko Island
• Minami Ashiyahama, ja:南芦屋浜
• Wakayama Marina City ja:和歌山マリーナシティ
• Nishinomiyahama ja:西宮浜

Islands in Ise Bay

• Chūbu Centrair International Airport (Artificial island)
• Kamishima
• Kashiko Island
• Kozukumijima
• Mikimoto Pearl Island
• Ozukumijima

Islands in the Pacific Ocean

• Izu Islands
  • Aogashima
  • Hachijō
  • Izu Ōshima
  • Kōzu
  • Miyake
  • Mikura
  • Niijima
  • Shikine
  • Toshima
  • Tori Shima
• Ogasawara Islands
  • Chichi
  • Haha
  • Iwo
  • Minami Torishima (Marcus Island)
  • Okino Torishima (Parece Vela)
• Enoshima

Islands around Kyūshū

Most of these are located in the East China Sea.

• Hiroshina
• Amakusa
• Gotō Islands
• Hirado
• Hashima
• Iki
• Koshiki
• Tsushima

Nansei islands (Ryukyu Chain)

Satsunan Islands

The northern half is administratively part of Kagoshima Prefecture and Kyūshū).

Ōsumi Islands

The North-Eastern Group:

• Tanegashima
• Yakushima
• Kuchinoerabujima
• Mageshima

The North-Western Group:

• Takeshima
• Iōjima
• Shōwa Iōjima
• Kuroshima

Tokara Islands

The Shichi-tō:

• Kuchinoshima
• Nakanoshima
• Gajajima
• Suwanosejima
• Akusekijima
• Tairajima
• Kodakarajima
• Takarajima

Amami Islands

• Amami Ōshima
• Kikaijima
• Kakeromajima
• Yoroshima
• Ukeshima
• Tokunoshima
• Okinoerabujima
• Yoronjima

Ryūkyū Shotō

The Southern Half, Okinawa Prefecture

Okinawa Islands

The Central Group or Ryukyu proper:

• Okinawa Island (aka. Okinawan mainland, Okinawa hontō)
• Kumejima
• Iheyajima
• Izenajima
• Agunijima
• Iejima
• Iwo Tori Shima (Iōtorishima) [1]
• Kerama Islands
  • Tokashikijima
  • Zamamijima
  • Akajima
  • Gerumajima
• Daitō Islands
  • Kita daitō
  • Mimami daitō
  • Oki daitō

Sakishima Islands

Also known as the Further Isles:

• Miyako Islands
  • Miyakojima
  • Ikema
  • Ogami
  • Irabu
  • Shimoji
  • Kurima
  • Minna
  • Tarama
• Yaeyama Islands
  • Iriomote
  • Ishigaki
  • Taketomi
  • Kohama
  • Kuroshima
  • Aragusuku
  • Hatoma
  • Yubujima
  • Hateruma
  • Yonaguni
• Senkaku Islands Disputed territory also claimed by the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China, but administered by Japan:
  • Uotsurijima
  • Kuba Jima
  • Taisho Jima
  • Kita Kojima
  • Minami Kojima

Islands in the Inland Sea

• Kasaoka Islands
  • Takashima Island (Okayama) 高島 (岡山県笠岡市)
  • Shiraishi Island
  • Kitagi Island, 北木島
  • Obishi Island, 大飛島
  • Kobi Island, 小飛島
  • Manabe Island, 真鍋島
  • Mushima Island (Okayama), 六島 (岡山県)
• Shiwaku Islands
• Awaji
• Etajima
• Itsukushima (popularly known as "Miyajima")
• Shōdoshima
• Suō-Ōshima, Yamaguchi

Islands in lakes

• Daikon-island
• Bentenjima in Lake Toya
• Bentenjima in Lake Hamana

Other Artificial islands

• Chūbu Centrair International Airport
• Dejima
• New Kitakyushu Airport
• Midori No Shima, off Hakodate, ja:緑の島 (artificial)
• Malimpia Okinosu ja:マリンピア沖洲 (artificial)
• Wakaejima ja:和賀江島 (artificial)
• Island City, Fukuoka ja:アイランドシティ (artificial)

See also

• List of islands

References