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Sights in Yusui, Kagoshima
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Maruike Spring
Selected among Japan's 100 famous waters. About 60,000 tons daily from Kirishima foothills supply the town. Spring blossoms, summer fireflies.
Kirishima Art Forest
Outdoor art museum at about 700 meters on Mount Kurino, north of Kirishima, with 23 works including Yayoi Kusama.
Hachiman Daijigoku
Kurinodake, said to be the oldest volcano in the Kirishima range, has Kyushu's largest fumarole area and sources Kurinodake Onsen.
Mount Kurino Railroad Tie Stairs (Mount Kurino Observatory)
Summit stairs using 7000 ties from the 1988-closed Yamano Line, Japan's number-one railroad-tie stairs.
JR Yoshimatsu Station
Once a railway-town hub, with 115 m of pale-pink moss phlox, C5552 display, railway museum, and SL hall.
Railway Museum (Tourist Steam Locomotive Hall)
Museum covering Hisatsu Line construction history, with steam locomotive photos, signals, uniforms, a heritage C55 locomotive, and a stone warehouse.
Katsukuri Shrine
Built in the Wado era over 1,260 years ago; bronze mirror is a prefectural Important Cultural Property.
Matsuo Castle Ruins
Only mountain castle ruins in southern Kyushu. Kitahara seat; Shimazu Yoshihiro entered 1590. Stone walls, steps remain; main gate restored.
Sawahara Plateau
Second only to Aso in Kyushu: grassland beside primeval forest, biodiversity-certified, with a late-July daylily evening.
Koda District Rice Terraces
Stone-walled terraces in a quiet forest valley, designated one of Japan's 100 best rice terraces.
Southernmost Habitat of Wild Higan Cherry
About 60 wild higan cherries, a national natural monument as Japan's southernmost habitat.
Tabu Primeval Forest and Japan's Largest Tabu Tree
Japan's only tabu primeval forest, in Kawazoe National Forest, contains the largest tabu, 30 meters and about 500 years old.