Chikura, Japan

Chikura, Japan is a submarine cable landing point in Japan (coordinates 34.9767°, 139.9547°). It serves 8 submarine cable systems, making it a significant node in Japan's international connectivity infrastructure.

Chikura was a town located in Awa District, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Chikura, Japan

Cables landing at Chikura, Japan are operated by 36 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including AT&T, BT, Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Chunghwa Telecom, DongHwa Telecom, Globe Telecom, Google, and 26 others. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Chikura, Japan, international traffic can reach 11 countries through 8 cable systems. Destinations include Brunei, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and 3 more. With multiple redundant paths, traffic at this landing point can reroute through alternative cables if any single system experiences an outage.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 1 monitoring event on cables serving Chikura, Japan in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Southeast Asia-Japan Cable 2 (SJC2) (2025) — Southeast Asia Japan Cable 2 (SJC2) is a submarine cable ready for service in 2025, connecting ten landing stations across eight jurisdictions in East and Southeast Asia: Busan in South Korea, Chikura and Shima in Japan, Fangshan and Tanshui in Taiwan, Chung Hom Kok in Hong Kong, Lingang in mainland China, Quy Nhon in Vietnam, Songkhla in Thailand, and Changi South in Singapore. Read more →
• FASTER (2016) — FASTER is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting United States, Japan, Taiwan. Its 4 landing points at Bandon, Chikura, Shima, Tanshui bridge the networks of North America, East Asia, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →
• Southeast Asia-Japan Cable (SJC) (2013) — Southeast Asia-Japan Cable (SJC) is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Japan, China, Philippines, Brunei, Singapore. Its 6 landing points at Chikura, Chung Hom Kok, Nasugbu, Shantou, Telisai, and 1 more bridge the networks of East Asia, Southeast Asia, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →
• Unity/EAC-Pacific (2010) — Unity is a 9,620 km trans-Pacific submarine cable that lands at Chikura in Japan and Redondo Beach in California. Ready for service in 2010, Unity was Google's first major investment in a submarine cable — the company's entry into owning rather than leasing international fibre capacity. Read more →
• EAC-C2C (2002) — EAC-C2C is a 36,500 km submarine cable system forming a ring around East Asia, with sixteen landing stations across seven countries and territories: Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Singapore. Read more →
• APCN-2 (2001) — Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN-2) is a 19,000 km submarine cable commissioned in December 2001, forming a ring around East and Southeast Asia. It has ten landing stations across seven countries and territories: Katong in Singapore, Cherating in Malaysia, Batangas in the Philippines, Lantau Island in Hong Kong, Shantou and Chongming in mainland China, Tanshui in Taiwan, Chikura and Kitaibaraki Read more →
• Japan Information Highway (JIH) (1999) — Japan Information Highway (JIH) is a domestic submarine cable network within Japan, connecting 9 coastal and island locations including Akita, Chikura, Ibaraki, Ishikari, Miyazaki, and 4 more. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.