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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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Sogi Power Station Ruins
The remains of a power station standing in the river, open again to visitors.
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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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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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Chiran Peace Museum
Shows the last letters and belongings of the pilots who flew from Chiran.
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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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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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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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Bansei Tokko Heiwa Kinenkan
Built on the site of Bansei airfield, the army's last kamikaze base.
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Mizonokuchi Doketsu
A cave cut over thousands of years by spring water from the Kirishima range: 14.6 metres wide and up to 6.4 high.
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Amami Sightseeing Habu Center
Shows film of the habu snake and the mongoose, and explains the snake's habits and what to do if bitten.