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鹿児島県 · Shrines & temples

Homan Jinja

南種子町離島

A rite that guards and hands on red rice, keeping an old form of Japanese rice growing.

鹿児島県 · Shrines & temples

Kamiyama

奄美市離島

Sacred ground surviving in each village. A form of island faith apart from shrines.

鹿児島県 · Shrines & temples

Hakozaki Hachiman Jinja

出水市霧島

It displays the largest bell in Japan.

鹿児島県 · Shrines & temples

Nitta Jinja

薩摩川内市鹿児島

First shrine of Satsuma Province, standing on Mount Shinki.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Chiran Buke Yashiki

南九州市南薩

The little Kyoto of Satsuma. Seven of its gardens are Places of Scenic Beauty.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Sunamushi

指宿市南薩

You are buried in the sand of the beach, a way of bathing rare anywhere in the world.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Izumi Fumoto

出水市霧島

The largest outer fortress town of the Satsuma domain. A town of samurai who guarded the border.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Izumi Tsuru

出水市霧島

One of the largest wintering grounds for cranes in the world. More than ten thousand birds arrive.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Hatsuuma-sai

霧島市霧島

Horses hung with bells move up the approach as if dancing.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Kirishima Onsen

霧島市霧島

A gift of the volcano. It was where the mountain ascetics took the waters.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Sakurajima

鹿児島市鹿児島

It is still erupting. The 1914 eruption joined it to the Osumi peninsula.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Senganen

鹿児島市鹿児島

A garden that treats Sakurajima as its artificial hill and Kinko Bay as its pond. The remains of the Shuseikan works stand alongside.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Shiroyama

鹿児島市鹿児島

The cave where Saigo Takamori met his end survives here.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Shuseikan

鹿児島市鹿児島

A World Cultural Heritage component of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution. Among the oldest Western-style factory buildings in Japan.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Jomon Sugi

屋久島町離島

Estimated at between 2,000 and 7,000 years old. It lies at the end of a ten-hour round trip on foot.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Shiratani Unsuikyo

屋久島町離島

Primeval forest under a covering of moss. The source of the water of Yakushima.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Yakushima

屋久島町離島

They say it rains thirty-five days a month here. A cedar estimated at between 2,000 and 7,000 years old.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Sunamushi

指宿市南薩

海岸の砂に埋まる世界的にも珍しい入浴法。

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Amami Oshima

奄美市ほか離島

Home of the Amami rabbit. Primeval mangrove forest.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Kirishima

霧島市ほか霧島

One of the first national parks in Japan, and the stage of the myth of the descent of the heavenly grandson.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Satsuma Kiriko

鹿児島市鹿児島

Thick coloured glass is cut back to produce a graded shading. Production died out once and was revived.

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Izumi Cranes

出水市霧島

世界最大級のツルの越冬地。一万羽以上が飛来する。

鹿児島県 · Tourism

Mt. Kaimon

指宿市南薩

The Fuji of Satsuma. A cone rising straight out of the sea.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Kirishima Open-Air Museum

湧水町霧島

At 700 metres, where artists chose their own sites; when the fog comes in, the sculptures appear and vanish.