Eat
Cafés and local food on the Izu Peninsula.
Eat · Shimoda
Jashumon: Shimoda's retro coffee house
A coffee house open since 1966 in an old Shimoda building, known for its Wiener coffee, its antiques and its chansons.
Eat · Shimoda
Cafe Den: homemade cakes near Perry Road
A small café in yellow and blue near Shimoda's old town and the sea, known for its owner's homemade seasonal cakes.
Eat · Izu City
Izu wasabi: the stone-terraced fields of Amagi and where to taste the real thing
The Amagi highlands grow some of Japan's finest fresh wasabi in stone-terraced fields fed by spring water, a system recognised as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System. How the tatami-ishi fields work, how to see Ikadaba and Joren Falls, and how to eat fresh wasabi properly.