Niijima, Japan

Niijima, Japan is a submarine cable landing point in Japan (coordinates 34.3739°, 139.2584°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Japan's international connectivity infrastructure.

Nii-jima (新島) is a volcanic Japanese island administered by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. It is one of the Izu Seven Islands, group of the seven northern islands of the Izu archipelago, and is located approximately 163 kilometres (101 mi) south of Tōkyō and 36 kilometres (22 mi) south of Shimoda Shizuoka Prefecture. The island is the larger inhabited component of the village of Niijima Village, Ōshima Subprefecture of Tokyo Metropolis, which also contains the neighboring island of Shikine-jima and the smaller, uninhabited Jinai-tō. Nii-jima is also within the boundaries of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Niijima, Japan, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Japan. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

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

About the cables

• 5 Villages 6 Islands (2019) — 5 Villages 6 Islands is a domestic submarine cable network within Japan, connecting 9 coastal and island locations including Aogashima, Hachijo, Kozushima, Mikurashima, Miyake, 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.