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Overview
The southernmost cape of the Satsuma peninsula. Urashima Taro is said to have set out for the dragon palace from here, so it is also called Ryugu-bana.
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Nagasakibana (長崎鼻, Nagasakibana), also known as Cape Nagasakibana (長崎鼻岬, Nagasakibana Misaki) or Cape Ryūgū, is the most southern headland on the Satsuma Peninsula at the entrance to Kagoshima Bay. The cape has a lighthouse, is the location of a statue of Urashima Tarō, the fisherman in a Japanese fairy tale, and the Ryūgū Shrine.
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