| KOFU | Capital city of Yamanashi Prefecture in Honshu, Japan |
| GIFU | Landlocked prefecture in Honshu noted for cormorant fishing along the Nagara River (4) |
| OSAKA | City in Honshu, Japan, at the centre of the Kinki plain (5) |
| IKEDA | City in Honshu, Japan on the Ina River that is an industrial and residential suburb of Osaka (5) |
| SENDAI | City in Honshu, Japan, that houses Tohoku University (6) |
| KOBE | City in Honshu, Japan |
| NAGOYA | Industrial city in Honshu, Japan (6) |
| HIROSHIMA | City in Honshu, Japan |
| NIIGATA | Port in Honshu, Japan, on the Shinano and Agano rivers |
| NAHA | Capital of the Okinawa Prefecture in Japan (4) |
| TSUSHIMA | Largest island of Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture, in the Korea Strait between Japan and South Korea (8) |
| YOKOHAMA | Seaport and capital of Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (8) |
| DORDOGNE | French department with its prefecture in Perigueux (8) |
| KYOTO | City in Honshu (pop about 1.5 million), once the imperial capital of Japan (5) |
| ISE | City in Honshu housing the most sacred Shinto shrine in Japan |
| AKITA | City in Tohoku, N Honshu, Japan; an important feudal town in the 8th-century (5) |
| KAWASAKI | City in Kanagawa, Honshu, Japan, on the south bank of the Tama River (8) |
| HAIKU | Poetrys tops in Honshu and in Kyushu universities (5) |
| HONIARA | In Honshu, tiara shut out Guadalcanal capital (7) |
| SHUT | Bar locks in Honshu tourist (4) |
