A place long famous for its hot spring resorts
A tourist hot spring city in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, located near the center of the Izu Peninsula and facing Sagami Bay.
The name Ito is said to derive from its location east of Yu IZU ru kuni (the land where hot springs rise).
Ito’s Industries
Citrus cultivation is central. Orchards occupy about 50% of all farmland. Some are tourist citrus-picking gardens. The fishing industry was central from the Meiji period to the early Showa era but has since declined. Mackerel is the most common catch, and dried horse mackerel also serves as a tourist souvenir.
Sightseeing
It is a scenic location overlooking the Amagi Mountains to the west and Sagami Bay to the east, with most of the area designated as part of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. There are many famous places and historic sites, centered around Ito Hot Springs, which has about 800 hot spring sources.
One of the Japanese surnames
“Ito” is a surname derived from the place name, originating from its location east of Izu, as explained above.
There are about 100,000 people with the surname Ito nationwide, enough to fill Bryant-Denny Stadium in Alabama. They are relatively numerous in the Kanto region. Incidentally, Ito City in Shizuoka Prefecture is in the Chubu or Tokai region, which is next to the Kanto region.
Explanation of this calligraphy
The top row is hiragana, the middle row is kanji, and the bottom row is katakana, all written horizontally.
Japanese American Surname Ranking (U.S. Census Bureau, 1990 Survey)
It ranks 21st among Japanese-American surnames. In regions without kanji, surnames are combined based on their pronunciation.
| Surname | Kanji | Supplement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tanaka | 田中 | 4th in Japan |
| 2 | Yamamoto | 山本 山元 | 8th in Japan |
| 3 | Nakamura | 中村 仲村 ・・・ | 7th in Japan |
| 4 | Watanabe | 渡辺 渡部 ・・・ | 6th in Japan |
| 5 | Sato | 佐藤 | 1st in Japan |
| 6 | Yamada | 山田 | 12th in Japan |
| 7 | Kimura | 木村 (written vertically) | 17th in Japan |
| 8 | Suzuki | 鈴木 鈴木 (written vertically) | 2nd in Japan |
| 9 | Kato | 加藤 | 10th in Japan |
| 10 | Yoshida | 吉田 | 11th in Japan |
| 11 | Takahashi | 高橋 | 3rd in Japan |
| 12 | Higa | 比嘉 | 1st in Okinawa, Japan |
| 13 | Kobayashi | 小林 | 9th in Japan |
| 14 | Nakano | 中野 仲野 ・・・ | 46th in Japan |
| 15 | Hayashi | 林 | 20th in Japan |
| 16 | Hashimoto | 橋本 | 24th in Japan |
| 17 | Saito | 斎藤 斉藤 ・・・ | 19th in Japan |
| 18 | Sasaki | 佐々木 | 13th in Japan |
| 19 | Mori | 森 毛利 ・・・ | 22th in Japan |
| 20 | Matsumoto | 松本 (written vertically) 松元 | 15th in Japan |
| 21 | Ito | 伊藤 伊東 | 5th in Japan |
