Sights in Minamitane, Kagoshima

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• Tanegashima Space Center Space Science and Technology Museum

  

  Minamitane, Kagoshima · 0997-26-9244

  Japan's first full-scale space development exhibition hall at JAXA Tanegashima Space Center, free to the public.

• Senzano Iwaya Cave

  

  Minamitane, Kagoshima · 0997-26-1111

  Tanegashima's largest sea-eroded cave, traditionally said to seat a thousand. Enter only around low tide.

• Cape Kadokura

  

  Minamitane, Kagoshima · 0997-26-1111

  Southernmost point of Tanegashima, with a 1543 firearms-introduction monument, observatory, shrine, and Yakushima views.

• Hirota Site Museum and National Historic Site Hirota Site Park

  

  Minamitane, Kagoshima · 0997-24-4811

  Guidance museum for national historic Hirota burial site, showing shell grave goods and shell-accessory making.

• Tanegashima Red Rice Museum

  

  Minamitane, Kagoshima · 0997-26-7444

  Introduces red rice preserved at Homan Shrine, related folk rites, and local rice-farming culture.

• Homan Shrine

  

  Minamitane, Kagoshima · 0997-26-1111

  Long-cherished shrine to Tamayorihime, linked with local rice farming through red-rice rites, near legendary Homan Pond.

• Takezaki Coast

  

  Minamitane, Kagoshima · 0997-26-1111

  Coast around Tanegashima Space Center, one of Minamitane's eight scenic views, contrasting space center and nature.

• Nagatani Park

  

  Minamitane, Kagoshima · 0997-26-1111

  The most visited rocket-launch viewing spot, with countdown audio and a live launch broadcast.

• Nanairo Observatory

  

  Minamitane, Kagoshima · 0997-26-1111

  Overlooks paddies, windbreaks, and Maenohama Beach; the space center launch pad is visible on clear days.