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Kagoshima
A grand seaside daimyo garden that frames the smoking Sakurajima volcano as its living backdrop.
The city's classic panorama, gazing across Kagoshima's rooftops to the volcano rising from the bay.
The highest point visitors can reach on Sakurajima, staring straight up at the live volcano's flanks.
Kagoshima's grandest shrine, honouring the reforming lord who dragged Satsuma into the modern age.
A sweeping history and folklore museum on the ruins of Kagoshima's old castle beneath Shiroyama.
Kagoshima's buzzing covered-arcade heart, packed with shops, izakaya and the city's famous shaved ice.
A preserved lane of feudal samurai homes and exquisite miniature gardens in a green mountain town.
A sobering, deeply human memorial to the young pilots who flew their last flights from Chiran's airfield.
A vivid vermilion shrine wrapped in ancient cedar forest, rooted in Japan's founding mythology.
Get buried in naturally steaming volcanic sand on the beach at Ibusuki, a uniquely Japanese hot-spring ritual.
The cradle of Japan's industrial revolution — a UNESCO World Heritage ironworks by the Shimazu clan.
The cave where the 'last samurai' Saigo Takamori spent his final five days before his death.
The resting place of Saigo Takamori and over 2,000 samurai who died in the Satsuma Rebellion.
An immersive museum on the samurai reformers who toppled the shogunate and built modern Japan.
A shrine gate half-buried by Sakurajima's great 1914 eruption, left as a warning to future generations.
The birthplace of shirokuma, Kagoshima's legendary shaved-ice mountain topped with fruit and sweet beans.
A long-established restaurant serving the full spread of traditional Satsuma home cooking.
A beloved local ramen institution serving Kagoshima's distinctive milder tonkotsu-style bowl.
A specialist deep-frying Kagoshima's famed kurobuta black pork into golden, juicy cutlets.
A nostalgic department-store diner famous for a retro yakisoba locals have loved for generations.
A traditional confectioner in the Tenmonkan arcade showcasing Kagoshima's classic sweets like karukan.
The southern tip of the Satsuma Peninsula, with a lighthouse, a folktale shrine, and postcard views of Mount Kaimon.
A boardwalk viewpoint atop a 1946 lava flow, the closest public look at Sakurajima's smoking active crater.
A viewpoint built on lava that buried an entire offshore island in Sakurajima's colossal 1914 eruption.
