Matsuzaki is the only plain town in mountainous West Izu, and the outer walls of the storehouses
as the cityscape were made to prevent fire, to insulate and to proof damp in the Meiji period.
Chohachi Art Museum and Iwashina Elementary School are the tourist attractions
that are worth stopping by while walking along the street.
Access and Getting Around
By bus
40 minutes from Shuzenji Station to Matsuzaki with 1 bus per hour.
2 hours 15 minutes from Mishima Station to Matsuzaki with 4 daytime bus services only.
50 minutes from Izukyu Shimoda Station to Matsuzaki with 1 bus per hour.
By car
1 hour 45 minutes from Mishima Station. 40 minutes from Izukyu Shimoda Station.
CHUBU [ West Izu ]
-Onsen(Hot Spings) -Sea View
Dogashima is a hot spring resort in the center of West Izu,where sea clifsf and sea caves formed by the eruption of th...
CHUBU [ West Izu ]
-Historic Sites
The building was an elementary school which was built in 1880,a combination of Japanese, Western and Chinese architectur...
CHUBU [ West Izu ]
-Culture
It is the art museum where the works of Chohachi of the Edo period incising "the iron pictures"on the wall to decorate w...
CHUBU [ West Izu ]
-Onsen(Hot Spings)
It is an outdoor bath of Osawa Onsen Village which is in a little inner side of the town of Matsuzaki.A large quantity o...
CHUBU [ West Izu ]
-Historic Sites
In the hand-drilling quarry of the Edo period, there is a passage in a cave with the electricityand the cave is tasteful...
CHUBU [ West Izu ]
-Sea View
It is a group of beach at the small inlet on the West Izu shore.There are many popular beaches on the Izu Peninsula, but...
CHUBU [ West Izu ]
-Sea View
Ushitsuki Rock is in fact two rocks on the offshore of the Kumomi shore,and a Shimenawa or Shinto straw festoon is put b...
CHUBU [ West Izu ]
-Sea View
It takes 15 minutes to walk on a small pass from Kumomi to Senganmon,which is a huge rock of 30 meters high with a tunne...
CHUBU [ West Izu ]
-Sea View
It is a mountain of 163 meters above sea level extending out in the sea of the Kumomi village.The beautiful shore of Kum...