Enjoy tasting Shochu at the most famous Shochu brewery in Kagoshima. Meiji-gura is Satsuma Shuzo’s Shochu factory and museum. Satsuma Shuzo is producing traditional handmade Shochu “Tezukuri Meijigura& …

Meiji-gura…の続きを読む

  Those Samurai Houses were built about 250 years ago. Their gardens are beautiful designed, with Mt. Hahaga-dake as the background.     Other natural elements are also incorporated, making the whole area …

Chiran Samurai Residence…の続きを読む

  This museum exhibits precious materials such as pictures, letters, wills, articles and mementos of the 1,036 Kamikaze pilots based in Chiran who participated in the Battle for Okinawa towards the end of World War …

Chiran Peace Museum for the Kamikaze Pil…の続きを読む

  Nagasaki-bana Cape is the southernmost point of the Satsuma Peninsula. A walking path leads from a small cluster of souvenir shops to the tip of the cape where there stands a white lighthouse.            To t …

Nagasaki-bana Cape in Satsuma peninsula…の続きを読む

  Ryugu Shrine is located at Nagasaki-bana Cape, the southernmost point of Satsuma peninsula. Nagasaki-bana Cape is said to be the birthplace of the legend of Urashima Taro who saved a turtle, it took him to Ryugu-j …

Ryugu Shrine…の続きを読む

  Nishi-Oyama Station is the southernmost railway station in Japan operated by JR, boasts a breath taking view of Kaimon-dake volcano to the front.     The post box standing in front of the station is pain …

Nishi-Oyama Station…の続きを読む

  Ikeda-ko lake is a caldera lake located 40 km south of Kagoshima-city. It is best known to tourists as the location of the purported sightings of a monster named Issie, and as the largest lake in Kyushu with a sur …

Ikeda-ko lake…の続きを読む

  Ibusuki is an Onsen Resort that is famous for its sand baths, where bathers are buried in naturally heated sand.       Sand Bath Hall         Sand Bath, Kinko bay                  Sand Bath   The town en …

Ibusuki Onsen resort…の続きを読む

  Cape Sata is the southernmost Cape of main land Japan at 31′ 00″ latitude. The Cape is home to many sub-tropical flowers. Visitors may board a semi-submersible glass bottomed boat called the “Sata Day Go” to enjoy …

Cape Sata…の続きを読む

  The park is most famous for its Shiroyama Observatory with spectacular views over downtown Kagoshima, Kagoshima Bay and Sakurajima.     The night view is also nice, particularly if a clear sky and bright …

Shiroyama park…の続きを読む