22208 ／ いとうし
Shizuoka PrefectureThe town that burns a whole mountain every year.
Mount Omuro burning01 ／ Mountain
Mount Omuro (大室山), 580 m and shaped like an upturned bowl, is burned from foot to summit on the second Sunday of February, a custom of about 700 years. A lift takes you to the top, where a walk of about 1 km around the crater looks out to Mount Fuji and the Izu Islands.
02 ／ History
Miura Anjin (William Adams), adviser to Tokugawa Ieyasu, built Western-style sailing ships at the mouth of the Matsukawa River in Ito: a first of about 80 tonnes, finished in 1604, and in 1607 the 120-tonne San Buena Ventura. The Anjin Festival (按針祭) marks it every August.
03 ／ Hot springs
Ito Onsen yields 26,836 litres a minute (January 2024), the most in Shizuoka Prefecture. The water is mostly simple and mildly saline, clear and odourless. From the hot spring quarter along the Matsukawa to the rest of town, there are foot baths and hand baths everywhere.
Living here
The limited express Odoriko runs from Tokyo Station in about 1 hour 45 minutes, with no change. By Shinkansen, change at Atami to the JR Ito Line for about 20 minutes more.
−4.2% since 2015
72,287 → 65,491
55.24km² of it habitable
2024
2.1 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
8.4 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 市公式観光サイトの路線図（2026-09-24 閲覧）に載っている値 (checked 2026-09-24). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
20.6km
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