Tōkai region
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The Tōkai region (東海, literally East Sea) is a subregion of Chūbu, Kantō and Kansai, Japan along the Pacific Ocean. The name comes from Tōkaidō, one of the Edo Five Routes.
The prefectures consisting the Tōkai region are unfixed. From the geographic point of view, they are Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie (Kansai region,関西地方) and the southern part of Gifu, but, there is a case including Tokyo and Yokohama (Kantō region,関東地方) in Tōkai region. The economic tie between Aichi, Gifu and Mie (Chūkyō region,中京地方) is considerably strong.
Regions
Hokkaidō · Tōhoku · Kantō · Chūbu (Hokuriku • Kōshinetsu • Tōkai • Chūkyō) · Kansai · Chūgoku · Shikoku · Kyūshū · Ryūkyū
Prefectures
Aichi · Akita · Aomori · Chiba · Ehime · Fukui · Fukuoka · Fukushima · Gifu · Gunma · Hiroshima · Hokkaidō · Hyōgo · Ibaraki · Ishikawa · Iwate · Kagawa · Kagoshima · Kanagawa · Kōchi · Kumamoto · Kyōto · Mie · Miyagi · Miyazaki · Nagano · Nagasaki · Nara · Niigata · Ōita · Okayama · Okinawa · Ōsaka · Saga · Saitama · Shiga · Shimane · Shizuoka · Tochigi · Tokushima · Tōkyō · Tottori · Toyama · Wakayama · Yamagata · Yamaguchi · Yamanashi
Designated cities
Special wards of Tokyo · Chiba · Fukuoka · Hiroshima · Kawasaki · Kitakyushu · Kobe · Kyoto · Nagoya · Osaka · Saitama · Sakai · Sapporo · Sendai · Shizuoka · Yokohama
Kantō region(関東地方)
Chūbu region(中部地方)
Kansai region(関西地方)