Astronaut Soichi Noguchi captured from ISS Fukushima, Japan.

Credit: Soichi Noguchi, JAXA, NASA

Fukushima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Fukushima Prefecture has a population of 1,771,100 (as of 1 July 2023) and has a geographic area of 13,783.90km2. Fukushima is the capital and Iwaki is the largest city of Fukushima Prefecture, with other major cities including Kōriyama, Aizuwakamatsu, and Sukagawa. Fukushima Prefecture is located on Japan’s eastern Pacific coast at the southernmost part of the Tōhoku region, and is home to Lake Inawashiro, the fourth-largest lake in Japan. Fukushima Prefecture is the third-largest prefecture of Japan (after Hokkaido and Iwate Prefecture) and divided by mountain ranges into the three regions of Aizu, Nakadōri, and Hamadōri.

The local scenery on the ground is as follows.

Credit: Wikipedia

Reference: Soichi Noguchi’s Tweet
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東北地方, 日本, 福島県, Tohoku, Japan, Fukushima