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Apr 1, 2021 About Itoshima
Itoshima – A Great Place to Live in Japan
What better way to find out what living in Itoshima is really like than to speak to others who have made the move? Four people from very different backgrounds who settled here from...
Apr 1, 2021 About Itoshima
Itoshima – One of the Most Liveable Small Cities in the World
Monocle magazine and I agree on a lot of things. Ever since I flipped through its first issue in February 2007, I’ve felt like it’s one of very few Western media that really ‘get’ ...
Mar 21, 2021 Food & Drink
Okuzoe Seipan – New Bakery in Itoshima
A new specialty bakery using organic wheat from Kyushu, Hokkaido, and the United States opened in Itoshima on March 20. Tomohiro Okuzoe from Amakusa, Kumamoto bakes simple artisan ...
Aug 28, 2019 Places
Hideaway Sunset Camp
Kenji Hayashi, the founder of Sunset Cafe, Itoshima’s legendary beach cafe in Futamigaura in the early nineties, breaks new territory in August 2019 with the opening of Itoshima’s ...
May 29, 2019 Places
Kawakubo Saketen
The only hint of what awaits inside is a large and precariously hung grape vine. This stark white building, without any signboards, is where Toyochika Kawakubo’s father once ran a ...
Jan 31, 2019 Food & Drink
Mori to Coffee
In 2017 Keita Yamada and his wife Saori moved from Hokkaido to Itoshima with the dream of opening a cafe and roasting beans. On Jan. 11, 2019, they proudly opened...
Nov 27, 2018 Made In Itoshima
Small Valley Dessert Company
Located high up a narrow valley along a seldom traveled road in Nijo-mitsuyoshi, Nobuko Itabashi has been baking homemade pies and cakes for sixteen years...
Nov 27, 2018 Places
Himeshima – Princess Island
Mention Itoshima and people unfamiliar with the area might assume you’re referring to an island called “Ito.” While that’s not the case, there are some islands within Itoshima and ...
Nov 27, 2018 Food & Drink
Akka Punto Effe – Agriturismo
After renting a plot of land for years to grow vegetables for their Italian restaurant in Fukuoka, Chef Hiroshi Fujita and his wife Hiroko moved their kitchen and home to Itoshima....
Sep 26, 2018 Food & Drink
Coffee Unidos
Itoshima might be inaka (countryside) but we have superb coffee thanks to people like Hiroyuki Tanaka. In 2010 he opened Tana Cafe + Coffee Roaster in central
