Tokyo stocks rose Friday with the benchmark Nikkei index recovering the 18,000 line.

The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose 206.09 points, or 1.15 percent, in the day to 18,138.36.

The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange gained 23.76 points, or 1.36 percent, to 1,774.88.

Toyota was the day's most heavily traded issue by value. It climbed 180 yen to 7,800 yen.

Toshiba was the day's volume leader and rose 40 yen to 1,075 yen. It climbed to as high as 1,077 yen, its highest level this year.

On the First Section, advancing issues outnumbered declining ones 1,218 to 383, with 129 shares ending the day unchanged.

Trading volume on the main section totaled 1,738.79 million shares, against Thursday's 1,612.01 million shares.

The TSE's Second Section index climbed 23.97 points, or 0.58 percent, to 4,188.45 on a volume of 87.36 million shares.

On the Osaka Securities Exchange, the near-term September Nikkei 225 index futures contract went up 190 points to 18,160.