Japan offers many underrated ... hot spring baths (onsens), such as the Laforet Ito Onsen Yunoniwa, starting at around $130 per night. In Shizuoka City, the Hotel Ole Inn is a good option to ...

The seaside town of Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture ... as they barrel down Matsukawa River inside 1-meter-wide traditional Japanese wooden washtubs. It is as ridiculous as it sounds.

(Mainichi/Yoshihiro Yanagawa) ITO, Shizuoka -- Bill the shoebill, a large stork-like bird kept at Izu Shaboten Zoo in this central Japan city since 1981, died on Aug. 6. He was estimated to have ...

According to a curator at the Ito board ... Numazu in Shizuoka Prefecture after train services were suspended. Akira Tochigi, a visiting researcher at the National Film Archive of Japan, said ...