Regional discoveries | Value Village

MiyazakiArt & Crafts

Takachiho

Yokagura

Thirty-three dances performed through the night. They are still dedicated in the houses of the village.

MiyazakiContemporary Art

Miyazaki

Aoshima

An island ringed by wave-cut rock shelves, thick with subtropical plants.

MiyazakiNature & Scenery

Nichinan

Udo Jingu

You go down the cliff to the halls inside the cave, and throw the unadama balls.

MiyazakiNature & Scenery

Around Nichinan

Nichinan Coast

An avenue of phoenix palms runs along the coast. It was once the mecca of the honeymoon.

MiyazakiNature & Scenery

Ebino

Ebino Highland

The crater lakes of the Kirishima range. The starting point for climbing Karakunidake.

MiyazakiArchitecture

Aya

Aya Suspension Bridge

It spans a forest of broadleaf evergreens, a UNESCO Eco Park.

KagoshimaGardens

Minamikyushu

Chiran Buke Yashiki

The little Kyoto of Satsuma. Seven of its gardens are Places of Scenic Beauty.

KagoshimaHot Springs

Ibusuki

Sunamushi

You are buried in the sand of the beach, a way of bathing rare anywhere in the world.

KagoshimaArchitecture

Izumi

Izumi Fumoto

The largest outer fortress town of the Satsuma domain. A town of samurai who guarded the border.

KagoshimaNature & Scenery

Izumi

Izumi Tsuru

One of the largest wintering grounds for cranes in the world. More than ten thousand birds arrive.

KagoshimaFestivals

Kirishima

Hatsuuma-sai

Horses hung with bells move up the approach as if dancing.

KagoshimaHot Springs

Kirishima

Kirishima Onsen

A gift of the volcano. It was where the mountain ascetics took the waters.

KagoshimaContemporary Art

Kagoshima

Sakurajima

It is still erupting. The 1914 eruption joined it to the Osumi peninsula.

KagoshimaArchitecture

Kagoshima

Senganen

A garden that treats Sakurajima as its artificial hill and Kinko Bay as its pond. The remains of the Shuseikan works stand alongside.

KagoshimaCastles & History

Kagoshima

Shiroyama

The cave where Saigo Takamori met his end survives here.

KagoshimaCraft Experiences

Kagoshima

Shuseikan

A World Cultural Heritage component of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution. Among the oldest Western-style factory buildings in Japan.

KagoshimaNature & Scenery

Yakushima

Jomon Sugi

Estimated at between 2,000 and 7,000 years old. It lies at the end of a ten-hour round trip on foot.

KagoshimaNature & Scenery

Yakushima

Shiratani Unsuikyo

Primeval forest under a covering of moss. The source of the water of Yakushima.

KagoshimaNature & Scenery

Yakushima

They say it rains thirty-five days a month here. A cedar estimated at between 2,000 and 7,000 years old.

KagoshimaHot Springs

Ibusuki

Ibusuki Sand Bath Onsen

A bathing method rare even worldwide, in which bathers are buried in the sand of the beach.

KagoshimaNature & Scenery

Around Amami

Amami Oshima

Home of the Amami rabbit. Primeval mangrove forest.

KagoshimaNature & Scenery

Around Kirishima

Kirishima

One of the first national parks in Japan, and the stage of the myth of the descent of the heavenly grandson.

KagoshimaArt & Crafts

Kagoshima

Satsuma Kiriko

Thick coloured glass is cut back to produce a graded shading. Production died out once and was revived.

KagoshimaNature & Scenery

Izumi

Izumi Crane Migration Grounds

One of the world's largest wintering grounds for cranes. More than ten thousand birds fly in.