Hachijo Subprefecture in Tokyo Prefecture

is a

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Bureau Of General Affairs. Hachijō includes the following

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and

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in the Izu Islands: * Hachijō (town on

Hachijō-jima is a volcanic Japanese island in the Philippine Sea. It is about south of the special wards of Tokyo. It is part of the Izu archipelago and within the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. Its only municipality is Hachijō. On 1 March 2018, its p ...

and

Hachijō-kojima is a small volcanic deserted island in the Philippine Sea approximately south of Tokyo, and west of Hachijō-jima, in the northern Izu archipelago, Japan. Administratively the island is within Hachijō, Tokyo, Japan. Geography Oriented ...

) *

Aogashima is a volcanic island to the south of Japan in northernmost Micronesia. It is the southernmost and most isolated inhabited island of the Izus, which are politically and administratively part of Japan but geographically not part of the Japanes ...

(village on

) The subprefecture has an area of 78.6 square km, with a population of 8,790. Additionally, Hachijō includes the four southernmost Izu Islands, which are

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. These islands currently do not belong to any

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; both Hachijō and Aogashima claim administrative rights. From north to south, the islands are: *

Bayonnaise Rocks is a group of volcanic rocks in the Philippine Sea about south of Tokyo and south-southeast of Aogashima, in the south portion of the Izu archipelago, Japan. The rocks were discovered by the French corvette ''Bayonnaise'' in 1850, while surv ...

(''Beyonēzu Retsugan'') * Smith Island (''Sumisu-tō'') * Tori-shima *

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(''Sōfu-iwa'') Among the islands of the subprefecture, only Hachijōjima and Aogashima are inhabited.

External links

Hachijō Island Branch Office Official Website
Subprefectures in Tokyo Izu Islands {{Tokyo-geo-stub