鹿児島県 · Kyushu Region

Kagoshima Hidden Gems

The volcanic south — an active cone smoking across the bay from downtown, sand baths on the coast, and an ancient cedar forest offshore.

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Climate & Best Season

Subtropical, hot and very wet, with typhoons in late summer and ashfall from Sakurajima. Mild winters; spring and autumn are easiest.

The southernmost point of mainland Japan, at 31 degrees north, on a headland of subtropical forest at the end of the Osu…

Forty-six metres high and sixty wide, falling into a pool of an improbable emerald green enclosed by columnar basalt wal…