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Saigo Takamori Bronze Statue
Made over eight years by Teru Ando, sculptor of the loyal dog Hachiko, to mark 50 years since Saigo's death. Finished in 1937, it stands eight metres with its plinth.
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Sakurajima Island View
A loop bus from Sakurajima port, taking about 60 minutes around the island's sights.
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Yunohira Observation Deck
At the fourth station of Sakurajima's north peak, 373 metres up — the highest lookout on the island.
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Kagoshima City Hirakawa Zoo
A zoo where you can see koalas, with Sakurajima in view and a footbath.
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Maru-ike Yusui
One of Japan's hundred fine waters. Some 60,000 tonnes a day rise through the sandy bed from the Kirishima foothills and serve the town's water supply.
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Japan's Largest Giant Tree: Kamō no Ōkusu
In the grounds of Kamo Hachiman Shrine — a camphor held to be the largest tree in Japan.
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Mount Karakuni
At 1,700 metres, the highest peak of the Kirishima volcanoes, with a crater 900 metres across and 300 deep.
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Kirishima Open-Air Museum
An art museum that sets its works outdoors, borrowing Sakurajima as scenery.
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Kirishima Onsenkyo
The collective name for nine hot springs, large and small, southwest of the Kirishima range, all between 600 and 850 metres.
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Maruo Falls
Twenty-three metres high and sixteen wide — an unusual waterfall of hot-spring water, gathering the flows of Einoo and Iozan springs.
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Takenaka-ike Park
Fed by some 93,000 tonnes of spring water a day, with flowing somen and a municipal pool.
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Myoken Onsen
A hot spring on the Amori River. Its sodium bicarbonate water is also drunk, and there is a drinking fountain.
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Toki KIRISHIMA
A Japanese tea cafe at the foot of the Kirishima range, serving Kirishima tea grown in volcanic soil.
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Kurozu Garden Tsubobatake SHOP&RESTAURANT
Looking out over the vat field, Kinko Bay and Sakurajima — the home of Sakamoto's black vinegar.
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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.