Shikinejima, Japan

Shikinejima, Japan is a submarine cable landing point in Japan (coordinates 34.3309°, 139.2155°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Japan's international connectivity infrastructure.

Shikine-jima (式根島) is a volcanic Japanese island in the Philippine Sea. The island is administered by Tōkyō and located approximately 160 kilometres (99 mi) south of Tōkyō and 36 kilometres (22 mi) south of Shimoda Shizuoka Prefecture. It is one of the Izu Seven Islands, group of the seven northern islands of the Izu archipelago. The island is the smaller inhabited component of the village of Niijima, which also contains the larger, neighboring island of Niijima and the smaller, uninhabited Jinai-tō. It is part of the Ōshima Subprefecture of Tokyo Metropolis. As of 2009, the island's population was 600. Shikinejima is also within the boundaries of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Shikinejima, 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 Shikinejima, 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.