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Shoko Shuseikan
Japan's first Western-style factory complex; its stone machine shop survives as the built record of an industrial revolution absorbed.
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KagoshimaArchitectureMinamikyushu
Chiran Samurai District
Seven of its samurai gardens are designated scenic, their clipped hedges borrowing the mountain behind.
KagoshimaArchitectureIzumi
Izumi Fumoto Samurai District
A fumoto - the Satsuma domain's own form of samurai settlement - of 150 houses on a grid, the largest in the province.
KagoshimaArchitectureSatsumasendai
Iriki Fumoto
Walls built from rounded river cobbles - a distinctive technique, since nothing in them has a flat face.
KagoshimaArchitectureKirishima
Kirishima Shrine
Burned repeatedly by eruptions and rebuilt by the Shimazu lords; designated National Treasure in 2022.
KagoshimaArchitectureKagoshima
Stone Bridge Memorial Park
Stone arches nearly lost to flood, dismantled and rebuilt here - the work of Kumamoto masons hired into Satsuma.
KagoshimaArchitectureIsa
Sogi Power Station Ruins
A brick power station drowned by a dam; when the water drops it surfaces whole - a ruin visible only a few months a year.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Tanaka Isson Memorial Museum
A painter who moved here at fifty, worked as a dyer to fund his painting, sold almost nothing, and was recognised only after death.
KagoshimaArchitectureSatsumasendai
Koshikijima Villages
Cobble walls line the island lanes; houses sit low inside them against the typhoons.
Minamisatsuma
Kaseda Fumoto
Cobble walls and hedges in a samurai settlement - a village form produced by Satsuma's system of scattered garrisons.
KagoshimaArchitectureAira
Kamo Fumoto and the Great Camphor
Japan's largest camphor tree, 24 metres around, stands in the shrine at the centre of the samurai settlement.
KagoshimaArchitectureKagoshima
Terayama Charcoal Kiln and Sekiyoshi Sluice
The kiln that made the furnace's fuel and the channel that brought its water - the supporting infrastructure, included in the listing.
KagoshimaArchitectureKagoshima
Shiroyama and the Castle Walls
Satsuma defended itself with scattered samurai villages rather than a keep; its walls still carry bullet scars from 1877.
Amami
Takakura Granaries of Amami
Granaries raised on four posts with rat guards - one structure answering typhoon, damp and vermin at once.
Izumi
The Fumoto Village Form
Instead of one castle, samurai were settled in over a hundred fortified villages across the province.
Shibushi
Shibushi District
A port that also held a samurai settlement, its stone walls and hedges in the Satsuma manner.
KagoshimaArchitectureSatsumasendai
Sendai Fumoto
River cobbles walling off each plot - the technique of stacking round stone shared across this district.
KagoshimaArchitectureMakurazaki
Katsuobushi Sheds of Makurazaki
Sheds along the harbour where fish are smoked for months into what is said to be the hardest food in the world.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtYoron
Yoron Island
Administratively Kagoshima but linguistically and architecturally closer to Okinawa - an island where the border is not the boundary.
KagoshimaArchitectureKagoshima
Shochu Distilleries of Kagoshima
Fermenting jars are sunk into the floor, so the surrounding earth holds the temperature steady.
OkinawaArt & CraftsNaha
Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum
Walled in limestone like a Ryukyuan castle, holding both the kingdom's record and the systematic collection of postwar Okinawan art.
OkinawaArt & CraftsGinowan
Sakima Art Museum
A private museum on land reclaimed from a US base; its roof stair splits into six steps and twenty-three, for the 23rd of June.
OkinawaArchitectureNaha
Shuri Castle
A palace mixing Chinese and Japanese form into something Ryukyuan; burned in 1945, rebuilt, burned again in 2019, and now rising a third time.
OkinawaArchitectureNaha
Tamaudun Mausoleum
The royal mausoleum, its stone roof carved to imitate wooden shingles - the first building in Okinawa designated National Treasure.