Example sentences for: tohoku

How can you use “tohoku” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Tohoku

  • The very remoteness of Tohoku was appealing to such religious groups as the Zen Buddhists, who espouse an ascetic, unworldly life and constructed some of the country’s finest Buddhist temples in this northern part of Honshu.

  • The Japan Railways Keihin-Tohoku line takes about 40 minutes from Tokyo to Sakuragi-cho Station in Yokohama; the faster shinkansen leaves you off at Shin-Yokohama, on the outskirts of the city.

  • Its massive rice yield (as much as 20 percent of the national rice crop) has made Tohoku the chief supplier of the country’s needs.

  • Until the Tokugawa shoguns completed their conquest of all Japan from the 17th century on, the towns of Tohoku constituted the northern boundaries of the Japanese empire.


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