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Sights in Ibusuki, Kagoshima
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Chiringashima Island
Uninhabited island about 800 meters off Tara Cape, reachable on foot by sandbar at low tide.
Uomidake
Rugged 215-meter mountain resembling Hawaii's Diamond Head, with views reaching Sakurajima.
Iwasaki Art Museum
Museum at Ibusuki Iwasaki Hotel displaying Yohachiro Iwasaki's collection of local and world art.
Ibusuki Archaeological Museum COCCO Hashimure
Archaeological museum north of Hashimuregawa Ruins, a nationally designated 1400-year-old village site.
Lake Ikeda
Kyushu's largest caldera lake, circumference 15 km, depth 233 m, shaped by six eruptions about 5700 years ago.
Flower Park Kagoshima
A 36.5-hectare botanical park near Nagasakibana with subtropical and temperate plants from around the world.
Tokumitsu Shrine
Shrine honoring Maeda Riemon, who brought sweet potato seedlings from Ryukyu in 1705. Annual festival each October.
Washio-no-Mori Nature Park
Nature park on 411m Mt. Washio overlooking Unagi Pond, Lake Ikeda and Sakurajima. About 1,000 cherry trees bloom in spring.
Nagasakibana
Southernmost cape of the Satsuma Peninsula, also called Ryugu Cape. Sea turtles nest in summer; views include Mt. Kaimon.
Kaimon Foothills Fragrance Garden
Japan's oldest herb garden with over 10,000 fragrant camphor trees; oils, herb tea, Sunday library.
Hirakiki Shrine
Called Satsuma's Ichinomiya for safe navigation and fishing; main hall is a prefectural cultural property.
Tamanoi Well
Japan's oldest well, used by Empress Toyotamahime; ruins remain, with early-spring rape blossoms nearby.
Kaimon Foothills Nature Park
Japan's largest subtropical botanical garden, with about 100,000 plants and touchable Tokara horses.
Ibusuki Shrine
Revered since ancient times as Ibusuki's chief guardian shrine, with eight 1,130-year camphor trees over 8 meters in girth.
Imaizumi Shimazu Family Residence Site
Villa built in 1754 by first head Shimazu Tadasato; now Imaizumi Elementary School.
Imaizumi Shimazu Family Cemetery
Cemetery of successive Imaizumi Shimazu heads, with 14 gravestones and stone lanterns.
Ryugu Shrine
Shrine to Toyotamahime at scenic Nagasakibana; Mount Kaimon views, and Yakushima and Iojima on clear days.
JR Nishi-Oyama Station
Japan's southernmost JR station, facing grand Mt. Kaimon, with a popular yellow happiness postbox.
Satsuma Heritage Museum
Shows about 380 of 3,000 items: Satsuma ware, Saigo Takamori letters and scrolls, and Chinese ceramics. Shop and Italian restaurant.
Fudozan Seiryu-ji
Shingon temple opened in 1990 at 300 meters, with a complex rare in Kyushu and a monk-made garden.
Ibusuki Rapeseed Flower Fields
Rapeseed flowers peak from late December to early February; Ibusuki averages 19 degrees.
Yamagawa Salt Factory Ruins
Salt made with Fushime Onsen heat for about 20 years from 1943; salt fields and spring remain.
Yamagawa Power Station Exhibition Room
Exhibition on a geothermal plant drawing heat from up to 2,100 meters to make 30,000 kW.
Shin-Eikichi Rice Terraces
Stone rice terraces of about 95 plots and 3.4 ha lie on Lake Ikeda's northeast shore.
Ibusuki Naval Air Base Memorial Monument
Monument at Tara Beach honoring Ibusuki Naval Air Base dead, with a memorial service each May 27.
Hanase Bohi Park
Coastal park facing the East China Sea, with rope-like basalt and memorials to war dead.
Miyagahama
Famous port linked to merchant Hamazaki Taiheiji, now a park with Sakurajima views.
Yamagawa Port
Nankyu ferry port linking Yamagawa and Nejime; Saigo waited here to depart for both island exiles.
Jito Kariya Ruins Stone Monument
Edo-period walls mark the former Yamakawa magistrate office, later military post, school, and town hall.
Ikedako Pax
Opened October 2022 to view Lake Ikeda and Mount Kaimon, with a coffee cafe, water deck, and flowers.
Golden Torii
Golden torii by Kyushu's largest lake with views of Kaimondake, linked to Otani Gold Mine and a dragon-palace legend.