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鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Tennen Onsen Nukumori no Yu

北薩摩エリア

A natural hot spring in Izumi with a large bathhouse, many kinds of bath and rooms to stay.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Sendai Uchu-kan

北薩摩エリア

An astronomy centre with a 50-centimetre reflector, among Kyushu's finest, on ground 247 metres up above the Sendai River.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

知覧特攻平和会館

南薩摩エリア

Shows the last letters and belongings of the pilots who flew from Chiran.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Healthy Land Rotenburo Tamatebako Onsen

南薩摩エリア

An open-air bath looking out to sea, renewed in November 2025.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Tosenkyo Somen Nagashi

南薩摩エリア

The birthplace of revolving flowing somen, whose rotating vessel was registered as a design in 1970. It uses spring water from one of Japan's hundred …

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Yamakawa Sand Bath Onsen Sunayu-sato

南薩摩エリア

A sand bath with Mount Kaimon and the East China Sea in view, renewed in December 2024.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Popular Pokémon Eevee and Evolution Manhole Covers

南薩摩エリア

One cover was set outside Ibusuki Station in December 2018, and eight more added in February 2019, placed near sights and on footpaths.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

JR Nishi-Oyama Station

南薩摩エリア

The southernmost station on Japan's conventional lines, facing Mount Kaimon, with a rape-flower-yellow postbox outside.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Lake Ikeda

南薩摩エリア

The largest caldera lake in Kyushu, looking out to Mount Kaimon.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Cape Nagasaki

南薩摩エリア

The southernmost cape of the Satsuma peninsula. Urashima Taro is said to have set out for the dragon palace from here, so it is also called Ryugu-bana…

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

射楯兵主神社（釜蓋神社）

南薩摩エリア

A shrine where you make your wish with a pot lid balanced on your head.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

開聞岳

南薩摩エリア

At 924 metres, a double volcano with a lava dome on a cone; one of Japan's hundred famous mountains.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Chiran Bukeyashiki Teien-gun

南薩摩エリア

Streets of clipped hedges and gardens that borrow Mount Hahagatake as their scenery.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Chirin-ga-shima

南薩摩エリア

Northeast of central Ibusuki. At low tide a path of sand appears and you can walk across.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Ryugu Shrine

南薩摩エリア

A shrine at Nagasakibana, honouring the princess of the dragon palace.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Bansei Tokko Heiwa Kinenkan

南薩摩エリア

Built on the site of Bansei airfield, the army's last kamikaze base.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Ogawa Falls

大隅エリア

On the upper Ogawa River in Minamiosumi, with an emerald-green plunge pool.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Mizonokuchi Doketsu

大隅エリア

A cave cut over thousands of years by spring water from the Kirishima range: 14.6 metres wide and up to 6.4 high.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Sugawara Shrine

大隅エリア

A shrine on a rock outcrop that juts into the sea.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Kanoya Air Base Museum

大隅エリア

A museum of naval aviation on the grounds of the Kanoya air base.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Sata Misaki Park

大隅エリア

The southernmost cape on the mainland, on the 31st parallel. On Owa island offshore stands one of Japan's oldest lighthouses.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Jintoku Inari Shrine

大隅エリア

A shrine with a transparent torii and a tunnel of red ones.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Tonkatsu Takeitei Kanoya Main Store

大隅エリア

A pork-cutlet restaurant using prefectural pork and its own sauce.

鹿児島県 · Regional selections

Drive Around the Kagoshima Ōsumi Peninsula! Digital de Stamp Rally

大隅エリア

A stamp rally around the sights of the Osumi peninsula, from August to November.