Izu

Izu (伊豆市, Izu-shi) is a city in Shizuoka Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. The city's English Wikipedia article reports an estimated population of 30,678 living in 13,390 households as of 1 April 2019, a density of about 84 people per square kilometre. The municipality covers a total area of 363.97 square kilometres. As a shi, it is one of the three kinds of municipality used in Japan, alongside towns and villages, and it runs its local administration through a mayor and a city council within Shizuoka Prefecture. The population and area figures are those quoted in the article at the time of writing and may differ from later census results.