The Tōhoku region (東北地方, Tōhoku-chihō?) is a geographical area of Japan. Tōhoku is Japanese for "northeast", and the Tōhoku region occupies the northeastern portion of Honshū, the largest island of Japan.
Tohoku consists of six prefectures: Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi and Yamagata.
