is a city located on the eastern shore of the Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 63,343 and a population density of 510 persons per square kilometer. The total area was .
Ità  is located in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, on the northeast corner of Izu Peninsula, facing Sagami Bay on the Pacific Ocean. The landscape is hilly, and the heavily indented coastline is scenic. Much of the coastal area of the city is within the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, and due to this, the city is noted for its onsen hot springs with many hotels and resorts. It is located within the Izu-Tobu volcanic zone. Due to its proximity to the Tokyo metropolis and ease of transportation, it has been noted as the most visited national park in all Japan.
Shizuoka Prefecture
Per Japanese census data, the population of Ità  peaked in around the year 2000.
The city has a climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and relatively mild winters (Köppen climate classification Cfa). The average annual temperature in Ità  is . The average annual rainfall is with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around .
During the Edo period, all of Izu Province was tenryà  territory under direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the area now comprising Ità  was occupied by 15 small farming and fishing hamlets. It was in this area that the Tokugawa shogunate ordered Englishman William Adams to construct Japan's first western-style sailing vessels in 1604. The first ship, an vessel, was used for surveying work, and the second ship, the San Buena Ventura was sailed to Mexico. The period is commemorated in Ità  by a street named after Adams (Anjinmiuradori). The area was reorganized into four villages (Tsushima, Ità Â, Komuro and Usami) within Kamo District with the establishment of the modern municipalities system in the early Meiji period in 1889, and was transferred to Tagata District in 1896.
On January 1, 1906, the village of Ità  was elevated to town status. The 1923 Great Kantà  earthquake caused damage in Ità  with a 5 meter high tsunami. Train services started in 1938. It annexed neighboring Komuro Village on August 10, 1947, and became the city of Ità Â. In 1950 Ità  was proclaimed an "International Tourism and Cultural City" by the central government. It further expanded through annexation of neighboring Tsushima and Usami villages on April 1, 1955. Izu-Kà Âgen Station opened on December 10, 1961, which helped promote tourism to the local resort area.
Ità  has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 20 members. The city contributes one member to the Shizuoka Prefectural Assembly.
Ità  is one of the well known hot spring resort towns near the greater Tokyo metropolis, thus tourism is the mainstay of the economy. Commercial fishing and the production of stockfish form a secondary economy. Ità  has a fishing commercial harbour as well as the popular Michi no Eki Ità  Marine Town rest area with a yacht harbour, along the coast along Road 135.
Ità  has ten public elementary schools and five public middle schools operated by the city government and two public high schools operated by the Shizuoka Prefectural Board of Education. In addition, the prefecture also operates one special education school for the disabled.