Izumo

Izumo (出雲) may refer to:

Locations

• Izumo Province, an old province of Japan
• Izumo, Shimane, a city located in Shimane Prefecture
  • Izumo Airport
• Izumo-taisha, one of Japan's most ancient and important Shinto shrines

Ships

• Izumo-class helicopter destroyer, a class of helicopter carrier operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
  • JDS Izumo (DDH-183), lead ship of this class
• Japanese cruiser Izumo, an armored cruiser operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy

Fiction

• SDF-4 Izumo, a spaceship in the Robotech universe
• Izumo: Takeki Tsurugi no Senki, an anime series
• Kunisaki Izumo no Jijō, a Japanese manga series
• Izumo Kamurogi, the commander of Altair forces in the anime series Aquarion Evol

Other

• Izumo (train), a former train service in Japan
• Sunrise Izumo, a train service in Japan
• IZUMO1, a sperm-specific protein necessary for sperm-egg plasma membrane binding and fusion.