{{Short description|Village in Japan}} {{For|the island in Mie prefecture|Tōshi-jima}} {{more footnotes needed|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Toshima | official_name = | native_name = {{nobold|利島村}} | native_name_lang = ja | settlement_type = Village | other_name = | image_skyline = Toshima Island from offshore, Tokyo, Japan.JPG | image_flag = Flag of Toshima Village, Tokyo.svg | image_seal = Emblem of Toshima Village, Tokyo.svg | image_map = Toshima Village in Tokyo Prefecture Ja.svg | map_caption = Location of Toshima in Tokyo Metropolis | pushpin_map = Japan | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Japan | coordinates = {{coord|34|31|17|N|139|16|48|E|region:JP|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Japan | subdivision_type1 = Region | subdivision_name1 = Kantō | subdivision_type2 = Prefecture | subdivision_name2 = Tokyo Metropolis | subdivision_type3 = District | subdivision_name3 = | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Kazuhisa Umeda | leader_title1 = Vice Mayor | leader_name1 = | unit_pref = Metric | area_total_km2 = 4.12 | population_total = 327 | population_as_of = October 1 2020 | population_density_km2 = 79.4 | timezone1 = JST | utc_offset1 = +09:00 | postal_code_type = | postal_code = | blank_name_sec1 = City hall address | blank_info_sec1 = 248, Toshima-mura, Tōkyō-to<br />100-0301 | website = {{URL|http://www.toshimamura.org/}} }}
{{Nihongo|'''Toshima'''|利島村|Toshima-mura}} is a village located in Ōshima Subprefecture, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. The village comprises the whole of Toshima Island.
The island, at {{convert|4.12|km2|2|abbr=off}}, is one of the smallest inhabited islands in the Izu Island chain. Approximately 330 people live on the island. Eighty per cent of the island is covered by camellia forests. From November to March, much of the island is red from the camellia flowers. The island is also home to the ''Saku'' lily (''Lilium auratum'' var. ''platyphyllum''), the largest lily in the world.
The island is between Izu Ōshima, the largest of the Izu Islands, and Nii-jima. Ferries that sail to Nii-jima make a brief stop at Toshima. Toshima is also accessible (weather permitting) by helicopter departing from Ōshima island, from Ōshima airport it is a 10-minute flight to Toshima.
The main industry on Toshima is fishing. There is some small-scale farming and tourism.
==Geography== {{Nihongo|'''To-shima'''|利島}}, a volcanic island in the Izu Islands,<ref>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA412&dq= "''Izu Shotō'',"] ''Japan Encyclopedia,'' p. 412.</ref> is administered by the Tōkyō Metropolitan government. It lies south of Tōkyō and east of the Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture. Toshima forms part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. The island has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports populations of Japanese wood pigeons, Pleske's grasshopper warblers, Ijima's leaf-warblers and Izu thrushes.<ref name=bli>{{cite web |url=http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/toshima-island-iba-japan|title= Toshima island|author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2021|website= BirdLife Data Zone|publisher= BirdLife International|access-date= 6 February 2021}}</ref>
==Demographics== Per Japanese census data,<ref>[https://www.citypopulation.de/en/japan/tokyo/ Toshima population statistics]</ref> the population of Toshima has remained relatively steady in recent decades.
{{Historical populations | 1980 | 278 | 1990 | 315 | 2000 | 302 | 2010 | 341 | 2020 | 327 | align = none }}
==Education== There is a single combined elementary and junior high school, Toshima Elementary and Junior High School (利島村立利島小中学校).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kyoiku.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/administration/osima/files/charm_r3/toshima2.pdf|title=利島村立利島小中学校 学校紹介|publisher=Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education|accessdate=2022-11-05}}</ref>
For high school students may attend schools on other islands operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education.
==Gallery== <gallery> File:ToshimaPortTyoJpDec04-0001.jpg|Toshima Port </gallery>
==See also== {{Portal|Tokyo}} * List of islands of Japan
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==References== * ''Teikoku's Complete Atlas of Japan'', Teikoku-Shoin Co., Ltd. Tokyo 1990, {{ISBN|4-8071-0004-1}} * ''Saishin-Nihon-chizu 1990 – Atlas of Japan'', Imidas Shueisha, Tokyo
==External links== {{Commons category|Toshima, Tokyo (village)}} *[http://www.toshimamura.org/ Toshima Village Official Website] {{in lang|ja}}
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Category:Izu Islands Category:Islands of Tokyo Category:Important Bird Areas of the Nanpo Islands Category:Villages of Tokyo Category:Volcanoes of Tokyo