# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/chiran-peace-museum-for-kamikaze-pilots): Kagoshima, Museum. A museum on the site of the wartime Chiran airfield that displays the portraits, letters and wills of the 1,036 army airmen who died in the 1945 special attack operations around Okinawa. Admission is 500 yen, and it is open every day.
- [Mount Karakuni](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-karakuni): Kagoshima, Mountain. The highest peak of the Kirishima range at 1,700 meters, with a summit crater about 900 meters across and 300 meters deep. The usual climb starts at Ebino Kogen on the Miyazaki side. Neighbouring Shinmoedake has been at volcanic alert level 2 since October 2025, so some nearby trails stay closed.
- [Koshikijima Islands](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/koshikijima-islands): Kagoshima, Island. Three inhabited islands about 45 km off western Kagoshima, joined end to end since 2020 by the prefecture's longest bridge but still reached only by boat, two sailings a day from each of two mainland ports. Sea cliffs, a 4 km beach bar that walls three lakes off from the sea, and Toshidon, a UNESCO-listed New Year's Eve rite held inside private homes.
- [Hirauchi Kaichu Onsen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hirauchi-kaichu-onsen): Kagoshima, Onsen. Two rock pools on the shore at Hirauchi, on Yakushima's south coast, where hot spring water rises among the boulders and the sea covers everything except around low tide. Bathing is mixed, swimsuits and underwear are not allowed, and you pay by putting 300 yen in the donation box.
- [Lake Ikeda](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/lake-ikeda): Kagoshima, Attraction. A round caldera lake about 15 km around and 233 meters deep, the largest lake in Kyushu, with Mount Kaimon across the water. Giant eels up to 2 meters long live in it, and the shore has flower beds, a lakeside cafe and free parking, but buses are few.
- [Michi-no-Eki Kirishima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-kirishima): Kagoshima, Michi no eki. A roadside station inside Kirishima Shinwa-no-Sato Park, high on Route 223 in the Kirishima mountains. On a clear day you look across Kinko Bay to Sakurajima and as far as Mount Kaimon. Kurobuta pork lunches and a long slider down the hill.
- [Mount Kaimon](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-kaimon): Kagoshima, Mountain. A near-perfect 924-meter volcanic cone at the southern tip of the Satsuma Peninsula, called Satsuma Fuji. The trail winds around the mountain in a spiral, about 5 km and 3 hours from the foot to the top, with Sakurajima, Lake Ikeda and on clear days Yakushima in view.
- [Michi-no-Eki Tarumizu](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-tarumizu): Kagoshima, Michi no eki. A hot spring roadside station on Route 220 across Kinko Bay from Sakurajima. The free footbath runs 60 meters along the shore, and the restaurant serves Tarumizu's farmed yellowtail and amberjack.
- [Yoronjima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yoronjima): Kagoshima, Island. The southernmost island in Kagoshima Prefecture, about 23 km from the northern tip of Okinawa's main island and small enough to drive around in an hour. Most visitors come for Yurigahama, a sandbar 1.5 km offshore that appears only around low tide and is reached by boat.
- [Kakeroma Island](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kakeroma-island): Kagoshima, Island. A long, ragged island across the Oshima Strait from the south tip of Amami Oshima, with small settlements tucked into its bays. The only way over is Setouchi town's ferry from Koniya or a water taxi, and on the island there are no taxis, no convenience stores and almost nowhere to eat dinner.
- [Okinoerabujima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/okinoerabujima): Kagoshima, Island. A raised coral island of about 94 square kilometres between Tokunoshima and Yoron, shared by the towns of Wadomari and China. The limestone under its sugar cane and lily fields is full of caves: Shoryudo is the show cave, and guided caving tours go into wild ones.

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Last updated: 2026-10-20