Wakimoto Swimming Beach
Three kilometres of shallow sand, where sea turtles come to lay their eggs.
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Three kilometres of shallow sand, where sea turtles come to lay their eggs.
The strait between Akune and Nagashima, one of Japan's three fastest tidal races, reaching eight knots. Otomo no Tabito wrote a poem about it.
A riverside hot-spring inn in the Ichikino district, with weakly alkaline simple water.
A shrine in Izumi with what is held to be the largest bell in Japan.
A bath in a basin ringed by hills. Recorded in Kamakura-period writings, it has over 800 years of history, and Takamori Saigo favoured it.
A natural hot spring in Izumi with a large bathhouse, many kinds of bath and rooms to stay.
An astronomy centre with a 50-centimetre reflector, among Kyushu's finest, on ground 247 metres up above the Sendai River.
An open-air bath looking out to sea, renewed in November 2025.
The birthplace of revolving flowing somen, whose rotating vessel was registered as a design in 1970. It uses spring water from one of Japan's hundred fine water districts.
A sand bath with Mount Kaimon and the East China Sea in view, renewed in December 2024.
One cover was set outside Ibusuki Station in December 2018, and eight more added in February 2019, placed near sights and on footpaths.
The southernmost station on Japan's conventional lines, facing Mount Kaimon, with a rape-flower-yellow postbox outside.
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.
Streets of clipped hedges and gardens that borrow Mount Hahagatake as their scenery.
Northeast of central Ibusuki. At low tide a path of sand appears and you can walk across.
A shrine at Nagasakibana, honouring the princess of the dragon palace.
On the upper Ogawa River in Minamiosumi, with an emerald-green plunge pool.
A cave cut over thousands of years by spring water from the Kirishima range: 14.6 metres wide and up to 6.4 high.
The southernmost cape on the mainland, on the 31st parallel. On Owa island offshore stands one of Japan's oldest lighthouses.
A pork-cutlet restaurant using prefectural pork and its own sauce.