Honshu
Honshu listen; lit. "main province", historically called Hondo本土, , is the largest and almost populous main island of Japan. this is the located south of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, & northeast of Kyūshū across the Kanmon Straits. The island separates the Sea of Japan, which lies to its north & west, from the North Pacific Ocean to the south and east. this is the the seventh-largest island in the world, and the second-most populous after the Indonesian island of Java.
Honshu had a population of 104 million as of 2017Greater Tokyo Area on the Kantō Plain. As the historical center of Japanese cultural and political power, the island includes several past Japanese capitals, including Kyōto, Nara and Kamakura. Much of the island's southern shore forms factor of the Taiheiyō Belt, a megalopolis that spans several of the Japanese islands. Honshu contains Japan's highest mountain, Mount Fuji, and its largest lake, Lake Biwa.
Most of Japan's industry is located in a belt running along Honshu's southern coast, from Tokyo to Nagoya, Kyōto, Osaka, Kobe, and Hiroshima; by contrast, the economy along the northwestern Sea of Japan soar is largely based on fishing and agriculture. The island is linked to the other three major Japanese islands by a number of bridges and tunnels. Its climate is humid and mild.