Aogashima
A Village Inside a Double Caldera, Three Hours of Open Sea Past Hachijojima
The southernmost inhabited island of the Izu chain, a volcano with a second cone sitting inside i...
Miyake-jima
Walk Past a School Buried by Lava on a Still-Active Volcano Island
A round volcanic island about 180 km off Honshu whose 2000 eruption and the gas that followed emp...
Izu Oshima
A Live Volcano and a Black Ash Desert, 1h45 by Jet Foil from Tokyo
The largest of the Izu Islands, about 120 km south of central Tokyo, built around Mt. Mihara (758...
Mikurajima
Mikurajima: The Izu Island Where the Ferry Often Cannot Dock and You Need a Booked Bed to Land
A round, cliff-walled island about 200 km south of Tokyo with one small village, old-growth fores...
Hachijo-jima
Climb 1,280 Steps up Hachijo-Fuji, 55 Minutes by Plane from Haneda
Two volcanoes joined by a strip of flat land, about 55 minutes by ANA from Haneda. Climb 1,280 st...
Kozu-shima
Mount Tenjo's Azaleas and Tokyo's First Dark Sky Island
An Izu island reached by jet ferry from Takeshiba in about 3 hours 45 minutes or by a 45-minute f...
Niijima
6.5 km of White Sand and a Free Seaside Onsen Open All Night
A surf island about 160 km south of Tokyo, where Habushiura's 6.5 km of white sand faces the open...