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.

Of the dozens of castles - both originals and remakes - that dot Japan, probably none is more famous or more beautiful from afar than Himeji Castle.