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Tatsugo Town

Tatsugo Town, located in the northern part of Amami Oshima, is a very energetic coastal resort town where transparent emerald green seas, untouched rich subtropical nature, and deep traditional culture are comfortably condensed. It is full of highlights such as "Oshima Tsumugi Village," where you can experience the sacred mud dyeing of the world's highest peak silk fabric "Authentic Oshima Tsumugi" with your five senses, and the miraculous "Heart Rock" that appears only at low tide, which has become globally famous on SNS in recent years. Also, it possesses "Tebiro Beach," a sacred place for top-class surfing, and is filled...

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Ootaniwatari Colony

Ootaniwatari Colony (nest fern colony), spreading in the rich mountains of Amami Oshima (Uken-son), is a very dynamic and mysterious nature area that symbolizes the rich forests of the World Natural Heritage, where huge epiphytic fern plants "Ootaniwatari" (nest ferns) grow thick in many layers. The sight of magnificent, beautiful green leaves that remind you of a tropical jungle growing in clusters as if clinging to the trunks of old giant trees and rock surfaces is full of impact, and it invites travelers who have stepped in to an overwhelming extraordinary world as if they had slipped back in time...

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Funangyo Falls

Funangyo Falls, hidden quietly deep in the deep, deep subtropical primeval forest of Sumiyo-cho, Amami Oshima, is a beautiful famous waterfall in a secret region known only to those in the know, flowing down dynamically over a drop of about 35 meters from a steep, sheer, huge granite cliff. It is said that the name comes from the fact that people used the rich trees in this surrounding area to "cut out (Funangyo)" "boats," and the workings of great nature and the historical romance of the islanders breathe here. Beautiful wooden promenade trails are maintained up to the front of...

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Mt. Yuwan

Mt. Yuwan, rising high on Amami Oshima (Uken-son/Yamato-son), is the highest mountain on the island boasting an altitude of 694 meters, and is a sacred mountain spot where untouched, dynamic subtropical plants remain, which became the core region of the World Natural Heritage in 2021. The entire area around the summit is often shrouded in mysterious mist, and deep evergreen primeval forests where the huge fern plant called "Living Fossil," "Cyathea lepifera," and the valuable endemic ecosystem unique to Amami breathe, spread out. From the beautifully maintained wooden promenades and observation decks, you can safely enjoy overflowing negative ions and...

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Aira City

Adjacent to the north side of Kagoshima City and facing the calm Kinko Bay, "Aira City" is a highly convenient coastal city where rich great nature energy and old historical romance are comfortably fused. The biggest highlight is the "Gamo's Great Camphor Tree," which is designated as a national special natural monument and is said to be the largest giant tree in Japan with an age of about 1,500 years; the moment you stand in front of it, you are wrapped in overwhelming sacred spiritual energy and silence. Also, it is full of photogenic famous places such as the "Ryumonji-zaka,"...

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Adventure Park Mori no Kawanabe

Spread dynamically in the rich primeval forest of Kawanabe-cho, Minamikyushu City, "Adventure Park Mori no Kawanabe" is a very popular, latest experiential nature amusement park that utilizes the vitality of untouched great nature and can be enjoyed safely by everyone from beginners to authentic outdoor enthusiasts. The biggest appeal is the zip line that crosses the ropes stretched between towering giant trees, gliding like a bird over the forest, and the athletic experience, which is highly acclaimed by international tourists. It is a blissful healing adventure area where you can forget the noise of the city completely, bathe your whole...

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Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots

Located in Chiran-cho, Minamikyushu City, the "Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots" is a solemn historical museum visited by many people from all over the world to pray for peace, preserving and displaying precious belongings and historical materials of young members who dedicated their lives in the Okinawa battle at the end of World War II as "special attack forces (human history)," a harsh operation unprecedented in human history. Inside the museum, real fighter planes "Zero Fighter" and pure handwritten testaments, letters, and photos left by members to their families and lovers are displayed in an easy-to-understand manner, deeply overwhelming...

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Minamikyushu City

Located in the south-central part of the Satsuma Peninsula, "Minamikyushu City" is a highly energetic, major tourist city where the vast green carpet-like tea plantations of "Chiran Tea," one of Japan's leading high-class, prestigious tea producing areas, and deep historical culture are comfortably fused. "Chiran Samurai Residence Group," an important preservation district for groups of traditional buildings where the breath of samurai in the Edo period remains miraculously, and the holy ground of peace that conveys the precious aviation history of the Pacific War, are examples of places where the romantic history of modern Japan's turbulence breathes everywhere in the...

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Shibushi City

Shibushi City, located in the eastern part of Kagoshima Prefecture and facing the vast Shibushi Bay, is a vibrant seaside coastal city that has flourished as a base for maritime trade since ancient times, where rich marine bounty and idyllic rural landscapes are gently harmonized. Scattered in the town are prestigious traditional "Shibushi-Fumoto Gardens (samurai residence groups)" designated as a National Place of Scenic Beauty, and just walking through them allows you to deeply immerse yourself in the historical romance of the good old samurai era. Also, it is globally famous as a sacred place for "eel (aquaculture)," one of...

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Fukiagehama

Fukiagehama, located on the west coast of the Satsuma Peninsula and spanning Minamisatsuma City, Hioki City, and Ichikikushikino City, is one of the three great sand dunes in Japan, a grand coastal scenic spot where pure white sand dunes and blue pine forests continue beautifully for about 47 kilometers. The panoramic view overlooking the vast East China Sea without any obstructions is simply breathtaking. At dusk, you can overlook the world's most beautiful sunset sinking in a straight line to the horizon, captivating travelers and photographers from all over the world. Every spring, the "Fukiagehama Sand Festival" is held, and...

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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, 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, 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 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, 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, 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, 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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