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Kirishima Open-Air Museum
At 700 metres, where artists chose their own sites; when the fog comes in, the sculptures appear and vanish.
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Chiran Samurai District
Seven of its samurai gardens are designated scenic, their clipped hedges borrowing the mountain behind.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtKagoshima
Sakurajima
Lava from the 1914 eruption filled the strait and turned an island into a peninsula - a landform change fully documented.
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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.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtYakushima
Yakushima Forest
Vegetation stacked from subtropical to subarctic by altitude alone; even the logged stumps have grown second trees.
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.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtKirishima
Volcanic Landscape of Kirishima
Over twenty volcanoes in a chain, dotted with crater lakes, and still being reshaped by each eruption.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtIbusuki
Sand Baths of Ibusuki
Bathers are buried in sand heated from below - the ground itself used as the equipment.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtAmami
Subtropical Forest of Amami
Subtropical broadleaf forest through the island's centre - the plants and birds Tanaka Isson spent his last years painting.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtYoron
Yoron Island
Administratively Kagoshima but linguistically and architecturally closer to Okinawa - an island where the border is not the boundary.