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Chubu region (satellite photo) Located in the center of the Japanese archipelago. It refers to the area between the Kanto, Tohoku and Kansai regions. It began to be used in the late Meiji era as a tentative name for unclassified areas. In a broad sense, it often refers to the eight regional divisions and similar ranges.
JAL and ANA operations at Chubu International Airport. Chubu Centrair serves the third largest metropolitan area in Japan, centered around the city of Nagoya.The region is a major manufacturing centre, with the headquarters and production facilities of Toyota Motor Corporation and production facilities for Mitsubishi Motors and Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation. [4]
Japan is often divided into regions, each containing one or more of the country's 47 prefectures at large. Sometimes, they are referred to as "blocs" (ブロック, burokku), or "regional blocs" (地域ブロック, chiiki burokku) as opposed to more granular regional divisions.
The world heritage site consists of three historic mountain villages, Ogimachi, Ainokura, and Suganuma, surrounded by the steep forested mountains of the Chubu Region within central Japan. Ogimachi is located in Shirakawa-go, while Ainokura and Suganuma are in Gokayama. [4]
Nagoya (名古屋市, Nagoya-shi, ⓘ) is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is the fourth-most populous city in Japan, with a population of 2.3 million in 2020, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the third-most populous metropolitan area in Japan with a population of 10.11 million. [3]
Gifu Prefecture (岐阜県, Gifu-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. [2]: 246 [3]: 126 Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,991,390 (as of 1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 10,621 square kilometres (4,101 sq mi).
Yamanashi Prefecture (山梨県, Yamanashi-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. [2] Yamanashi Prefecture has a population of 817,192 (1 January 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,465 km 2 (1,724 sq mi).
Chubu University (中部大学, Chūbu Daigaku) is a private university in Kasugai, Aichi, Japan. Chubu University was established as the Chubu Institute of Technology in 1964 with the motto "Acta, non Verba" (Actions, not Words), [ 1 ] but its institutional history begins with the Nagoya Daichi High School established in 1938.