Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots
Portraits and Last Letters of 1,036 Army Special Attack Pilots
A museum on the site of the wartime Chiran airfield that displays the portraits, letters and will...
Mount Karakuni
Kirishima's 1,700 m Summit, Next Door to an Active Volcano
The highest peak of the Kirishima range at 1,700 meters, with a summit crater about 900 meters ac...
Koshikijima Islands
Koshikijima Islands: Three Islands Joined by a Bridge, and Still Reached Only by Boat
Three inhabited islands about 45 km off western Kagoshima, joined end to end since 2020 by the pr...
Hirauchi Kaichu Onsen
Yakushima's Sea-Rock Bath That Only Surfaces Around Low Tide
Two rock pools on the shore at Hirauchi, on Yakushima's south coast, where hot spring water rises...
Lake Ikeda
Kyushu's Largest Lake: 233 m Deep, Giant Eels, Mount Kaimon Behind
A round caldera lake about 15 km around and 233 meters deep, the largest lake in Kyushu, with Mou...
Michi-no-Eki Kirishima
Sakurajima from a mountainside park
A roadside station inside Kirishima Shinwa-no-Sato Park, high on Route 223 in the Kirishima mount...
Mount Kaimon
Satsuma Fuji: A Spiral Trail Up a 924 m Cone by the Sea
A near-perfect 924-meter volcanic cone at the southern tip of the Satsuma Peninsula, called Satsu...
Michi-no-Eki Tarumizu
A 60-meter footbath facing Sakurajima
A hot spring roadside station on Route 220 across Kinko Bay from Sakurajima. The free footbath ru...
Yoronjima
Yoronjima: A White Sandbar That Shows Up Only at Low Tide
The southernmost island in Kagoshima Prefecture, about 23 km from the northern tip of Okinawa's m...
Kakeroma Island
Kakeroma Island: A Town Ferry, Ferry-Timed Buses and No Taxis Across the Strait from Amami
A long, ragged island across the Oshima Strait from the south tip of Amami Oshima, with small set...
Okinoerabujima
Okinoerabujima: Coral Limestone Caves, Some Crawled With a Guide
A raised coral island of about 94 square kilometres between Tokunoshima and Yoron, shared by the ...