Sakurajima
Lava from the 1914 eruption filled the strait and turned an island into a peninsula - a landform change fully documented.
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Lava from the 1914 eruption filled the strait and turned an island into a peninsula - a landform change fully documented.
Vegetation stacked from subtropical to subarctic by altitude alone; even the logged stumps have grown second trees.
Over twenty volcanoes in a chain, dotted with crater lakes, and still being reshaped by each eruption.
Bathers are buried in sand heated from below - the ground itself used as the equipment.
Subtropical broadleaf forest through the island's centre - the plants and birds Tanaka Isson spent his last years painting.
Administratively Kagoshima but linguistically and architecturally closer to Okinawa - an island where the border is not the boundary.