Izumi
Izumi (泉), meaning "spring" or "source of water", is a Japanese given name and surname.
Izumi (泉), meaning "spring" or "source of water", is a Japanese given name and surname. It is sometimes translated as "fountain" in reference to natural springs and should not be confused with architectural fountains, which are called funsui (噴水) in Japanese. While a unisex name, it is more commonly used by women. It can alternately be written as 泉美, 和泉, 泉水, いずみ or いづみ.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Izumi
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Masaki Art Museum
Masaki Art Museum is an art museum in Tadaoka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, that opened in 1968. The collection, built up by Masaki Takayuki, comprises some thirteen hundred works, including three National Treasures and twelve Important Cultural Properties.
4 km · museum in Japan · Wikipedia - 02Kubosō Memorial Museum of Arts
The Kubosō Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi opened in Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, in 1982. The new wing was added in 1997.
4.6 km · museum in Japan · Wikipedia - 03Mitami Shrine
Mitami Shrine Mitami-jinja 美多彌神社 is a Shinto shrine in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is located in Senboku New Town near Komyoike Station.
4.9 km · Shinto shrine in Osaka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 04Osaka Prefectural Museum of Yayoi Culture
The Osaka Prefectural Museum of Yayoi Culture is an archaeology museum with a focus on the Yayoi period in Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The museum opened in 1991 at the south end of the Ikegami-Sone Site.
1.9 km · museum in Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 05Ikegami-Sone Site
The Ikegami-Sone site is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a large-scale Yayoi period settlement straddling the Ikegami neighborhood in the city of Izumi and the Sone neighborhood in the city of Izumiōtsu in the Kansai region of Japan. It is a large settlement ruin with a total area of 600,000 m2, extending 1.5 kilometers north-to-south and 0.6 kilometers east-to-west.
2.1 km · Japanese archaeological site · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Izumi Crane Habitat
A National Special Natural Monument known for the wintering of about 10,000 cranes from mid-October to March each year.
- 02Izumifumoto
This Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings was used as a defensive base for the Satsuma clan.
- 03Kashikuri Shrine
- 04Kannoji Temple
A temple of the Shokokuji school of the Rinzai sect.
- 05Kumano Shrine
It enshrines the three gods of Kumano: Izanami no Mikoto, Yomotsu no Mikoto, and Hayatama no Mikoto.
- 06Shibi Shrine
It enshrines the so-called 'Hyuga Sandai' of Ninokigi no Mikoto, Hikohohidemi no Mikoto, and Ubukigusabuki Fugai no Mikoto.
From Wikivoyage: Izumi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Takaono Nakanoichi (高尾野 中の市), The area around the Takaono Station on the Hisatsu Orange Railway. A two-day market held every March at the equinox to celebrate the arrival of spring, with about 300 stalls selling seedlings, flowers, miscellaneous goods, food, and more. It attracts 100,000 people.
From Wikivoyage: Izumi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Izumi
- Airports
- Kansai (KIX), 18 km · Kobe (UKB), 25 km · Osaka Itami (ITM), 33 km
- Stations
- Hagoromo Station, 5.7 km · Izumi-Fuchū Station, 1 km · Port of Osaka, 4.3 km · Ōtori Station, 5.9 km · Haruki Station, 3.9 km
- Tokushima → Izumi92 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · ¥1,780–2,430
- Tokoname → Izumi136 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · ¥2,260–3,080
- Takamatsu → Izumi128 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · ¥2,310–3,150
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Izumi
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Izumi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA shuttle bus from Kuranomoto Airport operated by Nankoku Kotsu connects to the ferry bound for Amakusa, and to Izumi Station in front of Dandan Market.
From Wikivoyage: Izumi, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-05.
- 01873 km
- 021,204 km
- 031,525 km
- 041,573 km
- 051,745 km
If you know how people move in Izumi – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Izumi
Izumi is 11 km from Sakai, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Takaishicity in Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan4.2 km
- Izumiotsucity in Osaka Prefecture, Japan3.1 km
- Tadaokatown in Senboku district, Ōsaka prefecture, Japan3 km
- Senboku districtdistrict in Ōsaka prefecture, Japan4.6 km
- Minami-kuone of the seven wards of the City of Sakai, Japan5.3 km