Izu Islands
The Izu Islands are a chain of volcanic islands scattered over several hundred kilometers south of Tokyo, Japan.Essential Destinations
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Hachijojima
Hachijō-jima is a volcanic island of Japan in the Pacific Ocean. It is about 287 km south of the special wards of Tokyo. It is part of the Izu archipelago and within the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.
Izu Oshima
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Izu Ōshima is in Japan. It is the largest of the seven Izu Islands. Ōshima is famous for Mt. Mihara, an active volcano that last erupted in 1986.
Aogashima
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Aogashima is a volcanic island to the south of Japan in northernmost Micronesia. It is the southernmost and most isolated inhabited island of the Izu Islands.
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Miyakejima
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Miyakejima is an island in Tokyo prefecture, about 180 km south of Tokyo city. As with the other islands in the Izu Island group, Miyake-jima forms part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.
Mikurajima
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Mikura-jima is an inhabited volcanic Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is administered by Tōkyō Metropolis and is located approximately 200 kilometres south of Tokyo and 19 kilometres south-southeast of Miyakejima.
Niijima
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Niijima is a fairly small island and one of the Izu Islands. It is administered as part of Tokyo, but it is about 160 km south of the city. It is known mostly for its surfing and free outdoor hot springs.
Kozushima
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Kōzushima is a volcanic island in Tokyo prefecture, about 170 km south of Tokyo city in the Philippine Sea. It is one of the Izu Seven Islands group of the seven northern islands of the Izu archipelago.
Toshima
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Toshima Island is a remote fishing village with one of the smallest populations of all the Izu Islands with only around 330 residents. The island is only 4.2 km² with 80% of it covered in Camellia forests.
Shikinejima
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Shikinejima is a volcanic island in the Philippine Sea island in the Izu Islands, 140 km from Tokyo. It is one of the Izu Seven Islands group of the seven northern islands of the Izu archipelago.
Izu Islands
- Type: Island with 25,000 residents
- Description: island group in Japan
- Also known as: “Idusitito”, “Izu Group”, “Izu Shoto”, “Izu shotō”, “Izu Syotô”, “Izu-ōshima”, and “Izu-shichitō”
- Historically known as: “De Vries Archipelago”
- Category: island group
- Location: Tokyo, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Izu Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر إيزو”
- Armenian: “Իձու”
- Asturian: “Islles Izu”
- Azerbaijani: “İdzu adaları”
- Azerbaijani: “İzu adaları”
- Basque: “Izu uharteak”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Ідзу”
- Belarusian: “Ідзу”
- Catalan: “Illes Izu”
- Cebuano: “Izu Shotō”
- Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی ئیزو”
- Chinese: “Izu Kûn-tó”
- Chinese: “伊豆群岛”
- Chinese: “伊豆群島”
- Chinese: “伊豆诸岛”
- Czech: “Izu”
- Czech: “Izušotó”
- Dutch: “Izu eilanden”
- Dutch: “Izu-eilanden”
- Esperanto: “Insuloj Izu”
- Estonian: “Izu saared”
- Finnish: “Izusaaret”
- French: “archipel d’Izu”
- French: “Archipel d’Izu”
- German: “Izu-Archipel”
- German: “Izu-Inseln”
- German: “Izu-shoto”
- German: “Izu-shotō”
- German: “Izu”
- German: “Izushoto”
- German: “Izushotō”
- Greek: “Νήσοι Ίζου”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Izu”
- Hebrew: “איי איזו”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Izu”
- Italian: “Arcipelago Izu”
- Italian: “Isole Izu”
- Japanese: “伊豆諸島”
- Japanese: “豆南諸島”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Pulou Izu”
- Korean: “이즈 제도”
- Lithuanian: “Idzu salos”
- Malay: “Kepulauan Izu”
- Marathi: “इझू बेटे”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Izu Kûn-tó”
- Northern Frisian: “Izu Eilunen”
- Northern Frisian: “Izu-Eilunen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Izuøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Izuøyane”
- Norwegian: “Izuøyene”
- Persian: “جزایر ایزو”
- Persian: “مجمع الجزایر ایزو”
- Polish: “Wyspy Izu”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Izu”
- Russian: “Идзу”
- Slovenian: “Izujski otoki”
- Spanish: “Archipielago Izu”
- Spanish: “Archipiélago Izu”
- Spanish: “Islas Izu”
- Swedish: “Izuöarna”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะอิซุ”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะอิสุ”
- Turkish: “Izu Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Ідзу”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Ідзу”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Izu”
- Wu Chinese: “伊豆群岛”
- Yue Chinese: “伊豆群島”
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