The Kanto Region (関東地方, Kantō-chihō) is an area of Honshu which consists of Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa and is home to approximately one-third of the population of Japan. Almost half of the area is made up on the Kanto Plain, the largest flatland in the country which was the place for the modern development of the country during the Edo period of Tokugawa rule.
Prefectures
Chiba Prefecture (千葉県) lies to the east of Tokyo Metropolis. Much of the area of the Chiba is taken up by the Boso Peninsula—a luscious green area that sees more rainfall than Tokyo and the… Read More
Kanagawa Prefecture (神奈川県) lies south of Tokyo Metropolis and offers many good day trips for visitors to the capital. Yokohama, the prefecture’s capital, has a very international feel and Kamakura and Hakone further south offer… Read More
Largely residential prefecture north of Tokyo with almost one million people commuting into the capital for work each day. Perhaps a little unfairly, Saitama’s image suffers a little from many thinking of it as a… Read More
Tochigi is a prefecture in the Kanto region north of Tokyo. It is best known for Nikko which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Utsunomiya, the capital city of the prefecture, is famous throughout the… Read More
Strictly speaking, Tokyo refers to Tokyo Metropolis, the capital and one of Japan’s 47 prefectures. It is an urban sprawl which is today home to over 13 million people—a constellation of cities that have, over… Read More
