Administrative Divisions
The Izu Islands are divided into two towns (Oshima and Hachijojima) and six villages (remaining inhabited islands.) Three subprefectures are formed above the municipalities as branch offices of the metropolitan government.
All the islands (more than a dozen in total) lie within the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. The four southernmost islands are not administrated under any town or village in Hachijō Subprefecture, but are unincorporated areas. Torishima is now uninhabited but is an important bird refuge.
Deserted islands between Aogashima and Ogasawara Islands, namely Bayonaise Rocks (Beyonēzu Retsugan), Smith Island (Sumisu-tō), Torishima, and Lot's Wife (Sōfu-iwa) do not belong to any municipality, because both Hachijō Town and Aogashima Village claim administrative rights. They are directly controlled by Hachijō Subprefecture instead.
- Ōshima Subprefecture
- Ōshima Town: Izu Ōshima
- Toshima Village: Toshima
- Niijima Village: Niijima, Shikinejima, and Udoneshima
- Kōzushima Village: Kōzushima
- Miyake Subprefecture
- Miyake Village: Miyakejima and Ōnoharajima
- Mikurajima Village: Mikurajima, Inambajima
- Hachijō Subprefecture
- Hachijō Town: Hachijōjima and Hachijōkojima
- Aogashima Village: Aogashima
- unincorporated: Bayonnaise Rocks (Beyonēzu Retsugan), Sumisu-tō, Torishima, and Sōfu-iwa
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