It reads いずし — Izu Shi. This is one of the harder names in the country: small municipalities are exactly where Japan's nandoku chimei (難読地名, "hard-to-read place names") live.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
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Izu is a city located in central Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2019, the city had an estimated population of 30,678 in 13,390 households, and a population density of 84 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 363.97 square kilometres (140.53 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Izu.
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伊豆市 is read いずし (Izu Shi). It is a city in Shizuoka Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Izu has a population of 28,493 across 364 km², making it the 747th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 26th largest of the 35 in Shizuoka.
The closest municipalities to Izu are Izunokuni Shi (6 km), Kannami Cho (12 km), Shimizu Cho (13 km).