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Koshikijima
Kamikoshiki, Nakakoshiki and Shimokoshiki in a chain, about 35 kilometres from end to end.
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Shiobi Onsenkyo
Called the bath of the gods, since it rises beneath the worship hall of Shibi Shrine. In autumn astringent persimmons are steeped in the source for twelve hours to sweeten them.
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Izumi Crane Observation Center
From mid October cranes arrive from Siberia; more than 10,000 winter here until about March. A special natural monument.
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Niterra Nittoku Spark Tech WKS Park (Kagoshima Prefectural Hokusatsu Wide-Area Park)
A prefectural park with large play structures.
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Ichihino Onsen
A cure resort since the Edo period, with weakly alkaline simple water.
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Wakimoto Swimming Beach
Three kilometres of shallow sand, where sea turtles come to lay their eggs.
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Kuro no Seto and Kuro no Seto Bridge
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.
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Maruyama Onsen
A riverside hot-spring inn in the Ichikino district, with weakly alkaline simple water.
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Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine
A shrine in Izumi with what is held to be the largest bell in Japan.
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Sendai Taki Onsen
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.
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Tennen Onsen Nukumori no Yu
A natural hot spring in Izumi with a large bathhouse, many kinds of bath and rooms to stay.
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Sendai Uchu-kan
An astronomy centre with a 50-centimetre reflector, among Kyushu's finest, on ground 247 metres up above the Sendai River.
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Healthy Land Rotenburo Tamatebako Onsen
An open-air bath looking out to sea, renewed in November 2025.
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Tosenkyo Somen Nagashi
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.
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Yamakawa Sand Bath Onsen Sunayu-sato
A sand bath with Mount Kaimon and the East China Sea in view, renewed in December 2024.
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Popular Pokémon Eevee and Evolution Manhole Covers
One cover was set outside Ibusuki Station in December 2018, and eight more added in February 2019, placed near sights and on footpaths.
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JR Nishi-Oyama Station
The southernmost station on Japan's conventional lines, facing Mount Kaimon, with a rape-flower-yellow postbox outside.
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Cape Nagasaki
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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Chiran Bukeyashiki Teien-gun
Streets of clipped hedges and gardens that borrow Mount Hahagatake as their scenery.
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Chirin-ga-shima
Northeast of central Ibusuki. At low tide a path of sand appears and you can walk across.
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Ryugu Shrine
A shrine at Nagasakibana, honouring the princess of the dragon palace.