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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.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Gyokusendo

南城市本島南部

A limestone cave five kilometres long. It shows how an island of Ryukyu limestone came to be.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Heiwa no Ishiji

糸満市本島南部

It carves the name of every person who died in the Battle of Okinawa, regardless of nationality, soldier or civilian.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Bise Fukugi

本部町本島北部

Trees planted as a windbreak became the hedge that shelters the village.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Himeyuri no To

糸満市本島南部

It carries the memory of the Battle of Okinawa.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Iriomotejima

竹富町八重山

Ninety percent of the island is primeval forest. The Iriomote cat is a Special Natural Monument.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Katsuren-jo

うるま市本島中部

A Roman coin was excavated here, showing how far trade by sea reached.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Kumejima

久米島町離島

The island of Kumejima pongee. Each village keeps its utaki.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Nakagusuku-jo

北中城村本島中部

Its curving stone walls are beautiful. Perry is said to have surveyed them and been astonished at their accuracy.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Nakijin-jo

今帰仁村本島北部

The seat of the king of Hokuzan. A wall 1.5 kilometres long runs along the ridge.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Shikinaen

那覇市本島南部

A villa of the Ryukyu royal house. It was the garden in which Chinese envoys were received.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Shurijo Seiden

那覇市本島南部

It burned in 2019 and is being rebuilt. The stone walls of the castle site remain World Heritage.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Taketomijima

竹富町八重山

Red tiles and shisa, and streets of white sand. The island's code, utsugumi, has kept the townscape.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Tamaudun

那覇市本島南部

The mausoleum of the kings of Ryukyu, and a National Treasure. A stone structure imitating a plank roof, it carries a form of tomb peculiar to Okinawa…