Central & Western Japan | International Space Station

Central & Western Japan | International Space Station

Expedition 73 Commander and flight engineer Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA): "I get a lot of requests to see Japan, but unfortunately, since I arrived on the ISS, I have hardly had a chance to see the archipelago clearly. The chances are surprisingly few. The most recent photo I have is this one."

Japan consists of 14,125 islands extending along the Pacific coast of Asia. The country stretches over 3,000 km (1900 mi) northeast–southwest from the Sea of Okhotsk to the East China Sea. The country's five main islands, from north to south, are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and Okinawa.

Follow Expedition 73:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

        

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center/JAXA/T. Onishi

Text Credit: Wikipedia

Release Date: June 28, 2025

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