Honshu (本州 Honshū?, actually "Main Island") (hoɴɕuː ( listen)) is the better island of Japan. The nation's capital island, it is south of Hokkaido beyond the Tsugaru Strait, arctic of Shikoku beyond the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu beyond the Kanmon Strait. It is the seventh better island in the world, and the additional best crawling afterwards Java in Indonesia.
Map of Honshu Islands Pictures
Geography Map of Honshu Islands
It has a citizenry of 103 actor in 2005, (98,352,000 as of 1990; in 1975 it was 89,101,702), mostly concentrated in the accessible lowlands, conspicuously in the Kantō apparent breadth 25% of the absolute citizenry abide in the Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and Yokohama, Kawasaki, Saitama and Chiba cities. Best of the nation's industry is amid forth the belt active from Tokyo forth Honshu's southern littoral cities, including Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, and Hiroshima, allotment of the Taiheiyo Belt.
The abridgement forth the northwestern bank by the Sea of Japan is abundantly fishing and agriculture; Niigata is acclaimed as an important ambassador of rice. The Kantō and Nōbi plains aftermath rice and vegetables. Yamanashi is a above fruit-growing area, and Aomori is acclaimed for its apples. Eminent actual centers accommodate Kyoto, Nara, and Kamakura.
