Japanese Origin Place Names

This is a list of place names in which the origin is Japanese. Japanese is the language spoken in Japan.

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Chōsen (Country) Japanese
Japanese form of Joseon, referring to Korea.

Chousen (Country & Region) Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 朝鮮 (see Chōsen).

Chūgoku (Country & Region) Japanese
Japanese form of Zhongguo, used to refer to China. It is also the name of a region in western Japan.

Chuugoku (Country & Region) Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 中国 (see Chūgoku).

Doitsu (Country) Japanese
Derived from Dutch Duits meaning "German". This is the Japanese name for Germany.

Hase (Settlement) Japanese
Etymologically from Japanese 泊 (hatsu) meaning "anchorage" and 瀬 (se) meaning "shallows". The spelling of 長谷 is from a shortening of 長谷の泊瀬 (nagatani no hatsuse) meaning "long valley of Hatsuse". This is the name of a place in Sakurai, Japan.

Hotaka (Mountain) Japanese
From Japanese 穂 (ho) meaning "grain" and 高 (taka) meaning "tall". This is the name of a mountain in Japan.

Indo (Country) Japanese, Korean
Japanese and Korean form of India. It is usually written in katakana in Japan and Hangul in Korea.

Kantō (Region) Japanese
Means "eastern frontier", from Japanese 関 (kan) meaning "frontier" and 東 (tō) meaning "east". This is the name of a region in central Japan, including Tokyo.

Kantou (Region) Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 関東 (see Kantō).

Kōbe (Settlement) Japanese
Possibly means "shrine supporters", in reference to the families who tended the local Ikuta Shrine. This is the name of a city in Japan.

Kobe (Settlement) Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 神戸 (see Kōbe).

Koube (Settlement) Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 神戸 (see Kōbe).

Mōko (Country, Political Subdivision & Region) Japanese
Japanese form of Mongolia.

Mouko (Country, Political Subdivision & Region) Japanese
Alternate transcription of Japanese Kanji 蒙古 (see Mōko).

Nihon (Country) Japanese
Alternate reading of Nippon.

Nippon (Country) Japanese
Means "origin of the sun, sunrise", from Sino-Japanese 日 (nichi) meaning "sun" and 本 (hon) meaning "root, origin". This is the Japanese name for Japan.

Pekin (Settlement) Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Polish, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Uzbek, Turkmen
Form of Beijing in several languages.

Tokija (Settlement) Latvian
Latvian form of Tokyo.

Tokijas (Settlement) Lithuanian
Lithuanian form of Tokyo.

Tokio (Settlement) Spanish, German, Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Greek, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek, Mongolian
Form of Tokyo used in various languages.

Tokió (Settlement) Hungarian
Hungarian form of Tokyo.

Tōkyō (Settlement) Japanese
Japanese form of Tokyo.

Tokyo (Settlement) Japanese, English, French, Italian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Estonian, Turkish, Hindi, Indonesian
From Japanese 東 (tō) meaning "east" and 京 (kyō) meaning "capital city". This is the name of the capital of Japan.

Tóquio (Settlement) Portuguese
Portuguese form of Tokyo.

Tukiyu (Settlement) Arabic
Arabic form of Tokyo.

Yamato (Country) Japanese
Possibly related to Japanese 山 (yama) meaning "mountain". This was the old name for the area around the city of Nara, though it was later applied to the entire country of Japan. Chinese scribes originally wrote this name using the character 倭 meaning "short". However, this was revised to the more favourable 和 meaning "harmony" in the 8th century. The prefixed character 大 means "great".