Chūgoku region (western Honshu, largest city Hiroshima, and Okayama)

It connects Kansai and Chūgoku regions in the western Honshū, Japan's largest island.

Its five arches are a symbol of western Honshū.

Beef cattle are mostly concentrated in western Honshū, and on Kyūshū.

Overnight trains on the Tōkaidō Line go from Tokyo to western Honshū and Shikoku.

This is the geologic border between eastern and western Honshū.

In 1863, the daimyo of Choshu (in western Honshu) fired on foreign ships in the Shimonoseki Straits.

It is the largest aquarium in western Honshū.

March 7 - A Richter Scale 7.6 magnitude earthquake kills at least 2,925 at Toyooka and Mineyama area, western Honshu, Japan.

Kansai is the geographical term for the area of western Honshū surrounding Osaka.