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298 records · 10/13

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Onami-ike

霧島・姶良エリア

At 1,411 metres, known as a relatively easy climb.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Japan's Largest Giant Tree: Kamō no Ōkusu

霧島・姶良エリア

In the grounds of Kamo Hachiman Shrine — a camphor held to be the largest tree in Japan.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Kagoshima Jingu Shrine

霧島・姶良エリア

An old shrine in the Kirishima and Aira district.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

曽木発電所遺構

霧島・姶良エリア

The remains of a power station standing in the river, open again to visitors.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Mount Karakuni

霧島・姶良エリア

At 1,700 metres, the highest peak of the Kirishima volcanoes, with a crater 900 metres across and 300 deep.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Kirishima Open-Air Museum

霧島・姶良エリア

An art museum that sets its works outdoors, borrowing Sakurajima as scenery.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Kirishima Onsenkyo

霧島・姶良エリア

The collective name for nine hot springs, large and small, southwest of the Kirishima range, all between 600 and 850 metres.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Maruo Falls

霧島・姶良エリア

Twenty-three metres high and sixteen wide — an unusual waterfall of hot-spring water, gathering the flows of Einoo and Iozan springs.

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Takenaka-ike Park

霧島・姶良エリア

Fed by some 93,000 tonnes of spring water a day, with flowing somen and a municipal pool.

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Myoken Onsen

霧島・姶良エリア

A hot spring on the Amori River. Its sodium bicarbonate water is also drunk, and there is a drinking fountain.

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Toki KIRISHIMA

霧島・姶良エリア

A Japanese tea cafe at the foot of the Kirishima range, serving Kirishima tea grown in volcanic soil.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Kurozu Garden Tsubobatake SHOP&RESTAURANT

霧島・姶良エリア

Looking out over the vat field, Kinko Bay and Sakurajima — the home of Sakamoto's black vinegar.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Koshikijima

北薩摩エリア

Kamikoshiki, Nakakoshiki and Shimokoshiki in a chain, about 35 kilometres from end to end.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Shiobi Onsenkyo

北薩摩エリア

Called the bath of the gods, since it rises beneath the worship hall of Shibi Shrine. In autumn astringent persimmons are steeped in the source for tw…

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Imuta-ike Nature Park

北薩摩エリア

A wetland registered under the Ramsar Convention.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Izumi Crane Observation Center

北薩摩エリア

From mid October cranes arrive from Siberia; more than 10,000 winter here until about March. A special natural monument.

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Niterra Nittoku Spark Tech WKS Park (Kagoshima Prefectural Hokusatsu Wide-Area Park)

北薩摩エリア

A prefectural park with large play structures.

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Ichihino Onsen

北薩摩エリア

A cure resort since the Edo period, with weakly alkaline simple water.

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Wakimoto Swimming Beach

北薩摩エリア

Three kilometres of shallow sand, where sea turtles come to lay their eggs.

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Akune Oshima Park

北薩摩エリア

An uninhabited island where wild deer live.

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Kuro no Seto and Kuro no Seto Bridge

北薩摩エリア

The strait between Akune and Nagashima, one of Japan's three fastest tidal races, reaching eight knots. Otomo no Tabito wrote a poem about it.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Maruyama Onsen

北薩摩エリア

A riverside hot-spring inn in the Ichikino district, with weakly alkaline simple water.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine

北薩摩エリア

A shrine in Izumi with what is held to be the largest bell in Japan.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Sendai Taki Onsen

北薩摩エリア

A bath in a basin ringed by hills. Recorded in Kamakura-period writings, it has over 800 years of history, and Takamori Saigo favoured it.