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To-shima, Tokyo

Village in Japan

Field	Value
name	Toshima
native_name	利島村
native_name_lang	ja
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	Toshima Island from offshore, Tokyo, Japan.JPG
image_flag	Flag of Toshima Village, Tokyo.svg
image_seal	Emblem of Toshima Village, Tokyo.svg
image_map	Toshima Village in Tokyo Prefecture Ja.svg
map_caption	Location of Toshima in Tokyo Metropolis
pushpin_map	Japan
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Japan
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Japan
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Kantō
subdivision_type2	Prefecture
subdivision_name2	Tokyo Metropolis
subdivision_type3	District
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Kazuhisa Umeda
leader_title1	Vice Mayor
unit_pref	Metric
area_total_km2	4.12
population_total	327
population_as_of	October 1 2020
population_density_km2	79.4
timezone1	JST
utc_offset1	+09:00
blank_name_sec1	City hall address
blank_info_sec1	248, Toshima-mura, Tōkyō-to
100-0301
website

100-0301

Toshima is a village located in Ōshima Subprefecture, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. The village comprises the whole of Toshima Island.

The island, at 4.12 km2, is one of the smallest inhabited islands in the Izu Island chain. Approximately 330 people live on the island. Eighty per cent of the island is covered by camellia forests. From November to March, much of the island is red from the camellia flowers. The island is also home to the Saku lily (Lilium auratum var. platyphyllum), the largest lily in the world.

The island is between Izu Ōshima, the largest of the Izu Islands, and Nii-jima. Ferries that sail to Nii-jima make a brief stop at Toshima. Toshima is also accessible (weather permitting) by helicopter departing from Ōshima island, from Ōshima airport it is a 10-minute flight to Toshima.

The main industry on Toshima is fishing. There is some small-scale farming and tourism.

Geography

To-shima, a volcanic island in the Izu Islands, is administered by the Tōkyō Metropolitan government. It lies south of Tōkyō and east of the Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture. Toshima forms part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. The island has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports populations of Japanese wood pigeons, Pleske's grasshopper warblers, Ijima's leaf-warblers and Izu thrushes.

Demographics

Per Japanese census data, the population of Toshima has remained relatively steady in recent decades.

| 1980 | 278 | 1990 | 315 | 2000 | 302 | 2010 | 341 | 2020 | 327

Education

There is a single combined elementary and junior high school, Toshima Elementary and Junior High School (利島村立利島小中学校).

For high school students may attend schools on other islands operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education.

Gallery

File:ToshimaPortTyoJpDec04-0001.jpg|Toshima Port

Notes

References

Teikoku's Complete Atlas of Japan, Teikoku-Shoin Co., Ltd. Tokyo 1990,
Saishin-Nihon-chizu 1990 – Atlas of Japan, Imidas Shueisha, Tokyo

References

[[Louis-Frédéric
. (2021). ["Toshima island"](http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/toshima-island-iba-japan). *BirdLife International*.
[https://www.citypopulation.de/en/japan/tokyo/ Toshima population statistics]
"利島村立利島小中学校学校紹介". [[Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education]].

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