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Izu Ōshima (伊豆大島, Izu-ōshima) is an inhabited volcanic island in the Izu archipelago in the Philippine Sea, off the coast of Honshu, Japan, 22 km (14 mi) east of the Izu Peninsula and 36 km (22 mi) southwest of Bōsō Peninsula. [1]
The Izu Islands are divided into two towns (Oshima and Hachijojima) and six villages (the remaining inhabited islands.) Three subprefectures are formed above the municipalities as branch offices of the metropolitan government. [citation needed] All the islands (more than a dozen in total) lie within the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on es.wikipedia.org Monte Mihara; Usage on ja.wikipedia.org 伊豆大島; 三原山; カルデラの一覧 (日本) Usage on pt.wikipedia.org Izu Ōshima; Usage on ro.wikipedia.org Izu Ōshima; Usage on vi.wikipedia.org Izu Ōshima; Usage on www.wikidata.org Q1070580
Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park (富士箱根伊豆国立公園, Fuji-Hakone-Izu Kokuritsu Kōen) is a national park in Yamanashi, Shizuoka, and Kanagawa Prefectures, and western Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. It consists of Mount Fuji, Fuji Five Lakes, Hakone, the Izu Peninsula, and the Izu Islands. Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park covers 1,227 square ...
After the start of the Meiji period, in 1878, the island came under the control of Tokyo-fu and was organized into six villages (Okada, Motomura, Senzu, Nomashi, Sashikiji and Habuminato) under Oshima subprefecture on April 1, 1908. The six villages were merged to form Ōshima Town on April 1, 1955.
As this name of the Seven Islands of Izu continued to be used even today, the islanders of the islands other than the Seven Islands feel discriminated., [1] and the Aogashima villagers in particular have petitioned not to use it at every opportunity. In connection with this, the affiliated organization of Tokyo, the "Izu Seven Islands Tourism ...
Mount Mihara summit. Mt Mihara has been featured numerous times in fiction. In 1965, Oshima Island and the volcano itself appeared in the climax of Gamera's debut film, where the military lured the giant turtle there as a means to trap it in a giant rocket-ship built on the island.
The Northern Izu Archipelago (or Islands) dialects (Japanese: 北部伊豆諸島方言 hokubu izu shoto hogen) are dialects of Japanese spoken on the inhabited islands north of Mikura-jima (Izu Ōshima, To-shima, Nii-jima, Shikine-jima, Kōzu-shima and Miyake-jima) in the Izu Archipelago, part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.