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Ichikikushikino City

Ichikikushikino City

Ichikikushikino City, located in the northwestern part of the Satsuma Peninsula and overlooking the East China Sea, is a vibrant seaside coastal city where the tropical atmosphere rich in historical fervor and marine bounty are compactly condensed. It is globally known as the historical site of "Hashima," where samurai (Satsuma Students) who dreamed of Japan's modernization in the turbulent period of the end of the Edo period secretly sailed to the UK, and historical romance breathes in the town. Also, experiences such as touring shochu making at the mysterious "Satsuma Kinzangura," which utilizes the tunnels of a real gold mine,...

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Mt. Takachiho

Mt. Takachiho, standing steeply on the border between Kirishima City and Miyazaki Prefecture, boasts an altitude of 1,574 meters and is a very prestigious sacred volcano globally known as the place of "Tenson Korin" (descent of the heavenly grandson), where gods first descended to earth in Japanese mythology. The biggest highlight is the "Amanosakahoko" (heavenly inverted halberd) shining in the mysterious blue sky, deeply stabbed into the summit where wild reddish-brown lava fields spread, and its overwhelming presence and historical romance deeply overwhelm international tourists. The panoramic view of the vast sea of clouds from the mountain trail is breathtakingly...

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Maruo Nature Trail

Maruo Nature Trail

Maruo Nature Trail, located in the heart of the Kirishima Hot Spring Resort, is a very popular nature walking trail area with a total length of about 2.3 kilometers, where even beginners and foreign hikers can trek safely and easily through untouched, primitive, and beautiful subtropical forests. From the gaps between moss-covered giant trees and rugged mountain surfaces, "natural hot spring heat white steam" unique to volcanic zones rises gently, and you can directly experience the powerful vitality of the earth with your five senses. Along the route, historical heritage such as the mysterious "Iwakado Kannon" and beautiful clear streams...

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Sojingaoka

Sojingaoka, located in Tarumizu City, spreads on a vast small hill about 413 meters above sea level, and is the best scenic observation spot on the peninsula, where you can overlook the vast Kinko Bay spreading below, the beautiful Satsuma Fuji "Mt. Kaimon" rising, and the magnificent grand panorama of the active volcano "Sakurajima" all at once. It is a place of historical romance where samurai of the Sengoku period are said to have laid camps, and the 360-degree large screen without any obstructions is breathtakingly beautiful. Every spring, a panorama of colors spreads with tens of thousands of beautiful...

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Kirishima Shinshuikyo Gorge

Kirishima Shinshuikyo Gorge

Kirishima Shinshuikyo Gorge, developed along the rugged columnar jointing valley of the Kirishima River near Kirishima Shrine, is a hidden nature trekking area where overwhelming formative beauty created by volcanic lava over staggering years and a mysterious mythological atmosphere drift. As you walk along the beautiful 1.8-kilometer promenade, clear streams shining in emerald green, dynamic rock walls, and "artificial waterfalls" appear one after another, making it a perfect photo spot for international tourists. Farthest away from the noise of the city, while listening to the pleasant murmur of water and the chirping of birds, it is the best healing spot...

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Odemizu Spring

Odemizu Spring, hidden quietly in the forests deep in the mountains of Kirishima City, boasts an overwhelming spring water volume of about 22 tons per minute, and is a secret hidden power spot where clear groundwater, transparent as crystal glass, gushes out endlessly. The contrast woven by the beautiful lush green trees and the beautiful pools boasting phenomenal transparency is breathtakingly beautiful, and the sight of sand at the bottom of the water dancing gently by the force of the gushing water is very photogenic. The cool, refreshing space wrapped in overflowing negative ions and silence purifies your mind and...

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Maruo Falls

Maruo Falls, standing tall surrounded by the rich primeval forests of Kirishima City, is a mysterious "hot spring waterfall" that is extremely rare even in Japan, boasting a drop of about 23 meters and a width of about 16 meters. The appearance of hot, milky-white hot spring water gushing from the nearby Kirishima Hot Spring Resort flowing down into the waterfall basin while dynamically raising white steam from the solid granite cliff is a formative beauty where you can truly experience the dynamic energy of a volcano. It is illuminated fantastically at night, captivating international tourists as a very photogenic...

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Iriki-Fumoto Samurai District

Iriki-Fumoto Samurai District

Iriki-Fumoto Samurai District in Satsumasendai City is a high-class, historic, and emotional area designated as a National Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, which was an outer castle (castle town) built by the Satsuma Domain during the Edo period with a medieval mountain castle as its base. The greatest feature of this town is the street where heavy "stone walls" beautifully stacked with round river stones carried from the nearby Hiwaki River and beautiful hedges are arranged in an orderly manner, and just walking through it wraps you in a deep emotion as if you had slipped through...

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Seo Kannon Mitaki Falls

Seo Kannon Mitaki Falls

Seo Kannon Mitaki Falls, hidden quietly deep in the deep green primeval forest of Shimokoshiki Island in the Koshikijima Islands, is a famous waterfall in a secret region that boasts overwhelming vitality and formative beauty, flowing down dynamically from a steep granite cliff over a drop of about 55 meters in "three stages." A sacred Kannon statue is enshrined right near the waterfall, and the moment you step in, you are wrapped in the silence of the deep forest and overwhelming sacred spiritual energy. Beautiful promenade trails are maintained up to the front of the waterfall basin, and it is...

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Teuchi Beach

Teuchi Beach, gently spreading at the southernmost tip of Shimokoshiki Island in the Koshikijima Islands (Satsumasendai City), is a bow-shaped beautiful white sand hideaway resort beach where beautiful tropical refreshing breezes blow for about 1.5 kilometers. The vast East China Sea spreading before your eyes boasts a gradient of emerald green that is transparent enough to take your breath away, never ceasing to attract overseas beach enthusiasts who want to enjoy snorkeling and sea kayaking. Along the coast, the old-fashioned beautiful Fukugi windbreak forests and the townscape of simple samurai residence streets are still carefully preserved, and an idyllic nostalgia...

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Satsumasendai City

Satsumasendai City

Satsumasendai City, located in the northwestern part of Kagoshima Prefecture, is a vast area where the flow of the magnificent Sendai River pours into the East China Sea, and it is an attractive coastal city where everything from the untouched dynamic remote island "Koshikijima Islands" to historic hot spring areas and samurai culture are gathered. It is full of historical romance, such as "Iriki-Fumoto," a high-class samurai residence group with about 800 years of history designated as a National Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, and the retro "Sendai Taki Hot Spring" loved by Saigo Takamori. Gourmet culture...

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Tarumizu City

Tarumizu City, located in the northwestern part of the Osumi Peninsula, adjacent to the active volcano "Sakurajima" floating in front of Kagoshima City across the vast Kinko Bay, is a vibrant coastal resort city where magnificent marine bounty and rich volcanic energy are comfortably fused. The biggest highlight from here is the most dynamic panoramic view of Sakurajima's volcanic smoke, which you can look up at while driving along the coastline, overwhelming travelers from all over the world. Also, it is famous as a sacred place for "Yellowtail and Greater Amberjack (aquaculture)" that received the bounty of Kinko Bay, which...

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Daikichi Orchard Sunflower Field

Daikichi Orchard Sunflower Field

Daikichi Orchard Sunflower Field, spreading at the foot of the magnificent Mt. Kaimon in Ibusuki City, is a superb flower garden overflowing with overwhelming vitality where tens of thousands of large sunflowers bloom all at once on the vast grounds every summer (around July to August). The contrast woven by the blue tropical sky, the green mountain surface of the beautiful Satsuma Fuji "Mt. Kaimon" rising in the back, and the vivid yellow of the sunflowers that dye the entire area golden is a beauty that takes your breath away, and it captivates travelers from all over the world as...

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Hiramon Shrine

Hiramon Shrine, standing dignifiedly at the foot of the beautiful Mt. Kaimon in Ibusuki City, is an ancient sacred shrine of extremely high pedigree that has been deeply revered since the distant mythological era as the "Ichinomiya of Satsuma Province" (the most prestigious shrine in the province). The biggest highlight is the Japanese deep spiritual world of natural worship that looks up to the beautiful Satsuma Fuji "Mt. Kaimon" rising in the back as a huge sacred object (mountain god) itself, which overwhelms international tourists. In the precincts surrounded by deep green trees, a dignified, heavy, and beautiful vermilion-lacquered main...

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Matagawasu

Matagawasu, a small uninhabited island (reef area) that stands further offshore from Chiringashima in Ibusuki City, where untouched primitive beautiful natural scenery remains intact, is a dynamic scenic spot in a secret region known only to those in the know, floating alone in the calm sea of the East China Sea (Kinko Bay). The contrast between the rough rock surface carved by the erosion of waves over staggering years and the beautiful greenery growing as if clinging to it is truly wild art created by great nature. The surrounding sea has very high transparency, and it has become a hidden...

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Lake Ikeda

Lake Ikeda, located in Ibusuki City, is the "largest vast caldera lake in Kyushu," created by the collapse of an active volcano, boasting a circumference of about 15 kilometers and a maximum water depth of about 233 meters. On the deep blue lake surface, transparent like crystal glass, the silhouette of the beautiful Satsuma Fuji "Mt. Kaimon" rising in the back is reflected beautifully like a mirror, and its overwhelming panoramic view is a formative beauty that takes your breath away. It attracts travelers from all over the world as a very photogenic superb view. Every winter, the vast "rapeseed...

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Unagi Onsen

Unagi Onsen, spreading on the shores of the beautiful "Lake Unagi" nestled in the deep mountains of Ibusuki City, is a hidden hot spring mountain village and a secret hot spring that only those in the know are aware of, where the atmosphere of an old-fashioned, simple hot spring therapy resort still remains strong. The hot sulfur springs that gush out, unique to volcanic zones, are the biggest attraction, and it is famous as a place of historical romance where the great samurai of the Meiji Restoration, Saigo Takamori, stayed for a long time to heal his mind and body....

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Fushime Beach

Fushime Beach, located near Nagasakibana in Ibusuki City, is a hidden coastal scenic spot full of geological wonders, where sharp, sheer, and heavy sedimentary cliffs continue along the coast where the Pacific Ocean's dynamic rough waves crash. The biggest highlight here is that "natural hot spring heat white steam" rises vigorously from everywhere on the beach, allowing you to witness the earth's wild volcanic energy up close and realistically. A retro sand bath hot spring, "Yamakawa Sand Bath Hot Spring Sunayu," which utilizes this hot spring heat, is adjacent, and the sand bath experienced while bathing in the comfortable and...

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Cape Nagasakibana

Cape Nagasakibana

Cape Nagasakibana, which juts out in a straight line at the southernmost tip of the Satsuma Peninsula in Ibusuki City, is one of the leading coastal scenic spots in Kyushu where you can overlook the vast Pacific Ocean view and the overwhelming panorama of the beautiful Satsuma Fuji "Mt. Kaimon" rising before your eyes from the best angle. The pure white lighthouse standing at the tip of the cape and the contrast between the wild black lava rock surface and the blue sea are very photogenic. This place is widely known as the birthplace of Japan's traditional "Urashima Taro's Ryugu...

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Chiringashima

Chiringashima, a beautiful uninhabited island with a circumference of about 3 kilometers floating in Kinko Bay, Ibusuki City, is a miraculous "Island of Bonds" where a pure white sand road (sandbar) about 800 meters long appears from the sea only during low tide from March to October every year, allowing you to walk across to the island. While looking at the emerald green sea, clear like crystal glass, on the left and right, the experience of being blown by the sea breeze and taking a walk above the water surface is overwhelmingly open and refreshing. Inside the island, nature trails...

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Ibusuki City

Located at the southern end of the Satsuma Peninsula, "Ibusuki City" is one of Japan's leading large-scale hot spring wellness resort cities, rich in tropical atmosphere, overlooking the calm Kinko Bay and the beautiful Satsuma Fuji "Mt. Kaimon." Starting with the world's only and globally rare "natural sand bath hot springs," and infinity scenic open-air baths overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the dynamic bounty of the volcano overflows everywhere in the city. Also, it is full of attractions such as nature trekking walking on the sand bridge (sandbar) to the mysterious uninhabited island "Chiringashima," and the panoramic view of the earliest...

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Izumi-Fumoto Samurai District

Izumi-Fumoto Samurai District

Located in Izumi City, the "Izumi-Fumoto Samurai District" is a high-class historical area designated as a National Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, which was a castle town for border defense called "Tojo" (outer castle) built by the Satsuma Domain during the Edo period. On the vast 44-hectare site, heavy stone walls, beautiful hedges, and beautiful wooden samurai residences preserved in their original state are arranged in an orderly fashion, and just walking through them wraps you in a deep emotion as if you had slipped through time. Tours of the interiors of samurai residences, strolling through beautiful...

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Izumi City

Izumi City, located in the northwestern part of Kagoshima Prefecture, is a wild nature city globally known as the "world's No. 1 crane migration site," where over 10,000 cranes fly from Siberia for wintering every year. The sight of large flocks of cranes dancing beautifully on the vast Izumi reclaimed land is simply breathtaking. It also boasts the "Izumi-Fumoto Samurai District," one of the largest in scale in the Satsuma Domain and a designated National Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, conveying the breath of historic, realistic samurai culture to the present day. With plenty of local specialties...

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Izumi Machi Terrace

Izumi Machi Terrace

Held annually in autumn (around November) in Izumi City, "Izumi Machi Terrace" is a modern light art festival boasting one of the largest scales in Japan, where over 10,000 fantastic bamboo lanterns (bamboo lights) beautifully color the historic samurai district and the town. Artisans and residents open precise geometric patterned holes in bamboo cut from the region's rich bamboo forests, and the gradation of warm light overflowing from there is overwhelmingly photogenic. If you step in, you will be wrapped in the nostalgia of the good old Japan and a sacred silence. Because you can experience the fantastic night festival...

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