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Shizuoka · Japan
In the destination Izu Peninsula.
In the photo: Shimoda’s port and coves seen from above.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
A port city on the southern Izu Peninsula, Shimoda was one of the first Japanese ports opened to foreign ships in 1854. It has Perry Street along a canal, the Ryosen-ji temple, clear-sand beaches like Shirahama and, farther south, Cape Irozaki at the tip of the peninsula.
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The local experience
A stone-paved street along a canal with willows and old namako-walled houses that leads to Ryosen-ji temple, where in 1854 the supplementary agreement to the first treaty between Japan and the United States was signed.
Shimoda’s largest beach, about 800 meters of clear sand and transparent water, with the red torii of the Shirahama shrine on the rocks by the sea.
Southern tip of the Izu Peninsula, in Minamiizu, with cliffs above the ocean, a white lighthouse, a small shrine set into the rock and viewpoints over the Izu islands.
Beyond the guide
