Shin'etsu
The Japanese region of Shin'etsu ( Japanese 信 越 地方 , -chihō ) includes today's northwestern prefectures of Nagano and Niigata and is a subdivision of the Chūbu region . Historically, the term referred to the provinces of Shinano ( 信 濃 ) and Echigo ( 越 後 ), from whose Kanji the name Shin'etsu is composed.
Together with Hokuriku ( Toyama , Ishikawa and Fukui ) it is often summarized as the Hokuriku-Shin'etsu region or, for short, the Hokushin'etsu region . With the prefecture of Gunma it is called Jōshin'etsu ( 上 信 越 地方 , -chihō ; after the former province of Kōzuke or Jōshū) and with the prefecture of Yamanashi as Kōshin'etsu ( 甲 信 越 地方 , -chihō ; after the former province of Kai or Jōshū). Kōshū).
Nagano Prefecture in Chūbu
Niigata Prefecture in Chūbu
Northern Japan : Hokkaidō ( east , north , center , south , "Northern Territories" (Southern Kuril Islands) ) | Tōhoku ( north , south )
Eastern Japan (in the narrower sense): Kantō ( north , south , Tokyo , Kantō-Kōshin'etsu ) | Chūbu ( Kōshin'etsu , Kantō-Kōshin'etsu , Shin'etsu , Kantō-Kōshin )
Central Japan : Chūbu ( Hokuriku , Tōkai , central highlands , San'ennanshin , Nōbi )
Western Japan (in the narrower sense): Kinki ( North , Keihanshin , Nanki ) | Chūgoku ( San'in , San'yō , Setouchi , Chūgoku-Shikoku ) | Shikoku ( Setouchi , North , South , Chūgoku-Shikoku )
South Japan : Kyushu ( north , south , central , west , east ) | southwestern islands ( Satsunan Islands , Okinawa , Sakishima , Daitō )