Ports Kushiro Muroran Tomakomai Sea of Japan Niigata Fushiki-toyama Kobe Himeji Mizushima Fukuyama Sendai-shiogama Hiroshima Onahama Tokuyama-Kudamatsu Ube Chiba Kashima Shimonoseki Kisarazu Kitakyushu Tokyo Kawasaki Hakata Yokohama North Pacific Ocean Shimizu Nagoya Ⓑ : International Strategic Shibushi Bulk Ports Yokkaichi Ⓒ : International Strategic Container Ports Osaka Wakayama-shimotsu Sakaisenboku Source: Based on MLIT Japan (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) website As of July 2012 Japan is an island nation of some 7,000 islands with total land area of approximately 378,000 km2. There are around 1,000 ports including 30 international hub ports. <International Strategic Container Ports> Hanshin Port area (Kobe Port and Osaka Port) Keihin Port area (Tokyo Por, Kawasaki Port and Yokohama Port) <International Strategic Bulk Ports> - Grain: Kashima (Kagoshima Pref.), Shibushi (Kagoshima Pref.), Nagoya (Aichi Pref.), Mizushima (Okayama Pref.), Kushiro (Hokkaido Pref.) - Iron ore: Kisarazu (Chiba Pref.), Mizushima (Okayama Pref.)/Fukuyama (Hiroshima Pref.) - Coal: Tokuyama-Kudamatsu/Ube ( both Yamaguchi Pref.), Onahama (Fukushima Pref.) This document is owned or licensed by JETRO and providers of the information content. This document shall not be reproduced or reprinted on any medium or registered on any search system in whole or part by any means, without prior permission of JETRO. Although JETRO makes its best efforts to ensure the correctness of the information contained in Copyright (C) 2012 Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). All rights reserved. this document, JETRO does not take any responsibility regarding losses derived from the information contained in this document. .