Izu's famous Jogasaki Coast I love going to museums, and one of the oldest and most well known in Ito is the Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, which opened in 1975 and boasts an impressive collection of mostly Western artists, including Warhol, Picasso, Renior, Willem de Kooning, Miro, Kokoschka, Matisse, and Chagall.

If I could time travel, I probably wouldn't choose 16th-century Japan, since it was a time of great upheaval and civil war, with feudal lords (daimyo) staking out their fiefdoms, sending their samurai into battle, and exercising complete control over people living on their land.