Shimogano Onsen

Port town at the southern tip of the Izu Peninsula, famous as the site of Commodore Perry's 1854 landing. Sulfate springs and Pacific-coast ryokan with views of the Izu islands.

A fishing port on a cape of the Izu Peninsula's east coast, where saline cliffside baths look out over the Pacific. Famous for branded kinmedai snapper and the Hina no Tsurushi-kazari hanging-doll festival, one of Japan's three great tsurushi displays.

1200-year-old onsen at the head of the Katsura River in central Izu. Bamboo grove, red bridges, the historic Shuzenji temple complex.

A planned highland resort above Itō on the eastern Izu Peninsula, laid out in the 1960s on lava from Mt. Ōmuro, with mild simple-thermal springs, sea-view open-air baths, pensions and small art museums, the Jōgasaki Coast, and a cherry-blossom avenue.