 | The Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany has one for this country Partial travel warning released (Web link). The Foreign Office continues to expressly warn against staying in the red zone (zone 3) around the Fukushima Daiichi I nuclear power plant in the northeast of the island of Honshu, which has been designated by the Japanese government. Unnecessary short trips and all long-term trips to the yellow and green zones (zones 2 and 1) are not recommended. Date of last travel warning: 18.09.2019. |
Honshu (本州 honshu) is the largest island Japan. It houses most of the population and is also the destination of most of the visitors.
Regions
Honshū is divided into five areas, from northeast to southwest:
- Tōhoku - literally 'east-north', the northeast of Hoshu.
- Kantō - the coastal plain around Tokyo and Yokohama.
- Chūbu - mountainous plateau with the Japanese Alps and Japan's fourth largest city Nagoya.
- Kansai - the old cultural and economic center Kyoto, Nara, Osaka and Kobe.
- Chūgoku - the western part of Honshu, rural region around Hiroshima.
places
Skyline of Osaka
- Hiroshima - Port city, target of the first atomic bomb in 1945.
- Kanazawa
- Kobe - Port city in the region Kansai.
- Kyoto - Japan's former capital, still the country's cultural center, many temples and gardens.
- Nagoya - Industrial city in the region Chubu.
- Osaka - dynamic business city in the region Kansai.
- Tokyo - the capital, modern and densely populated.
- Yokohama - Port city in the catchment area of Tokyo.
Other goals
- The little island Miyajima at Hiroshima, the shrine, also known under Itsukushima, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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security
Due to the incidents at the Fukushima nuclear power plant and the leakage of radioactive radiation, as well as the contamination of the narrower region, a warning is issued against staying in the red zone around the Fukushima I nuclear power plant in the northeast of the island of Honshū, which the Japanese government has designated. Travelers should definitely follow the media coverage and, if necessary, refer to the so-called "German list" of the embassy in Tokyo enter. (https://service.diplo.de/elefandextern/home/registration!form.action)
