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Innoshima, former city, eastern Hiroshima ken (prefecture), western Honshu, Japan. It was coextensive with Inno Island (Japanese Inno-shima), a small offshore island in the Inland Sea just south of Onomichi. Innoshima city was merged administratively with Onomichi in 2006.

Inno Island was originally settled by pirates. Following the decline of piracy in the 17th century, the island was left to fishermen. After the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), Hitachi Shipbuilding established a modern dockyard there. In 1964 the 100,800-ton supertanker Ōimaru, then the largest ship ever built on a building slip, was launched.

Innoshima, designated a city in 1953, is now a district of Onomichi. Inno Island is connected to mainland Onomichi by a portion of the multiple-span Kurushima Strait Bridge (opened 1999), which connects Imabari on Shikoku with Onomichi.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Michael Ray.