Kirishima (Kagoshima)
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I'd like to visit sometime. 8 elections of Kagoshima-shi and basic tourist attraction in a Kirishima area

Kirishima area of the Kagoshima which can enjoy the scenery of the each season such as the Kirishima mountain range designated in a national park for the first time in Japan and Sakurajima where Kagoshima is a symbol. The "Sengan-en" which can look "Kirishima Kanzui kyou", Sakurajima and Kinkouwan Bay where the Southern Kyushu is authorized by "Kirishima shrine" and the woodland therapy load which are an outstanding power spot around is mysterious and is circled by grand nature. There are a gourmet spot which can taste a brown vinegar dish gentle with a body at a place by the brown vinegar origination built with therapeutic point in Kagoshima and an art spot fused grand nature of Kirishima. If I come to the Kirishima area by this article, I'll introduce tourist attraction I'd like to visit certainly 8.

The Southern Kyushu designated as national treasure, outstanding power spot

A main shrine, an offering place and a hall of worship were designated as national treasure in 2022 February.
A main shrine, an offering place and a hall of worship were designated as national treasure in 2022 February.

Tourist attraction which also represents famous Kirishima as the place Mr. and Mrs. Sakamoto Ryoma visited by a honeymoon. The shrine where Kojiki and AMATERASUOOMIKAMI which appears on Chronicles of Japan deify NINIGINOMIKOTO my grandchild gets. There was Motomiya which is originally in sacred mountain Takachihonomine and the middle with the crater as a pot, but restructure was repeated by an eruption of Mt. repeated Kirishima, and it was reconstructed in the present location by the 21st generation Yoshiki Shimazu publicity.
A Kirishima shrine is also called "western Nikko", and a legend of "the Kirishima seven wonders" is also famous as the power spot left. There are many "Sazareishi" etc. highlights which also become a sacred tree of an age of the tree for 800 years and a text of a national anthem.

I pay attention to the precinct built by an excellent stone wall and luxurious ornament.

A precinct scraped southwestern sloping ground off like stairs, and built a stone wall, and was developed.
A precinct scraped southwestern sloping ground off like stairs, and built a stone wall, and was developed.

A developed Kirishima shrine is producing the excellent cityscape on which a roof is piled up at the time in sloping ground. Luxurious decoration is done by the Imperial envoy who meets a worshipper (In CHOKU SHI, oh.) A maruchou sculpture of pheasant and a wooden nose of the brace idle in great man in obscurity plum (RYU prevention) have a sculpture and a sculpture of a lion of a tapir which opens an eye widely and fits a curl in the center, and it's said to be the holy animal I drive away evil spirits.
Carving and design are applied with the colored very vivid color very much, and the pillar is vermilion-lacquered. The Kirishima shrine circled naturally sets an overwhelming existence sense free by solemn appearance and is bustling with the tourist who comes to the worship from early morning.

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Sacred trees of the height 38m said to be an age of the tree for 800 years are highlights. The view place in the place a little way from worshipper Waiting Room is a good photo spot of the cityscape it's possible to judge Sakurajima and a city from which on the day which cleared up.

Kirishima shrine
  • The addressKagoshima Kirishima city Kirishima Taguchi 2608-5 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car more than the JR Nippo Main Line "Kirishima shrine" station, about 12 minutes
  • Bus DirectionAfter I get off embussment and "Kirishima shrine" more than the JR Nippo Main Line "Kirishima shrine" station, immediately.
  • Business hoursWorship freedom in a precinct (at a reception desk at the reception desk and the giving of※ prayer, 8:00-17:00)
  • Days closedOpen everyday
  • AdmissionFree
  • TEL0995-57-0001
  • Parkingari (no charge)

An esplanade of the full length 1,800m healed in clear Kirishima river and ravine

The "prismatic structure" I see from an esplanade of mystery and a romance
The "prismatic structure" I see from an esplanade of mystery and a romance

Ravine on Kirishima river a little way from "Kirishima shrine". The esplanade where a rest point is also here is maintained along a ravine, and you can go back and forth in about 1 hour. The highlight which is most, "prismatic structure (CHUUJOUSETSURI)". The pot volcano from which it's 5.5 km away is eruptive in 788 and is the place where the lava which flowed from a crater hardened like a pillar, and the powerful scenery spreads.
Adult and a child have 9 frames of comics which drew history of prismatic structure at a view, and can learn how prismatic structure is done happily.

The artificial fall which drops like a white curtain

2 stages of artificial fall which drops during the wanton trees
2 stages of artificial fall which drops during the wanton trees

It's possible to think nature with an atmosphere different depending on spots respectively to walk along an esplanade in Kirishima Kanzui kyou which also becomes a course of "woodland therapy load". Sunlight puts the artificial waterfall in the place which is immediately on foot in during the trees beautifully just like a white curtain from prismatic structure, and it's fantastic. The color of the water from river is being emerald green and is flowing gently slowly. Please enjoy various natural expressions by all means from the powerful scenery to the scenery by which a heart is set at ease.

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It's possible to see beauty of the overwhelmed nature which doesn't also worry the stairs in the way and an upslope. They're the scenery of Kirishima river which can't be expected and the natural cure spot which can be satisfied with a ravine from an entrance.

Kirishima Kanzui kyou
  • The addressAround Kagoshima Kirishima city Kirishima Taguchi 2608-5 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from the JRKirishima shrine station, about 11 minutes
  • Business hours24 hours
  • Days closedOpen everyday
  • AdmissionFree
  • TEL0995-45-5111 (Kirishima city sightseeing PR department)
  • ParkingFree

I take a rest at a villa of highlight filling, Sakurajima and Shimazu family who can look Kinkouwan Bay around.

Photography place by the NHK NHK Historical Drama broadcast in 2018 "Saigo DON"
Photography place by the NHK NHK Historical Drama broadcast in 2018 "Saigo DON"

The "scenic spot Sengan-en" which is a popular tourist spot in Kagoshima is a villa of the Satsuma seigneur and Shimazu person built by Shimazu family 19 generation Mitsuhisa in 1658. The big scale which is to the extent the magnificent shakkei garden I chose between Sakurajima where Kagoshima is a symbol in a miniature hill and where I chose between Kinkouwan Bay (the asked bowl which isn't put on) in a pond doesn't see the other kinds. The influence which are Ryukyu and Chinese culture because Shimazu family was doing a China trade through Ryukyu, everywhere, it's also the feature to be seen.
The Sengan-en is also renowned as a place by the Japanese modernization and industrialization origination, and Sengan-en and an area including Takashi old compilation house stretch are registered by properties of composition of World Cultural Heritage as "the Industrial Revolution legacy in Meiji Japan".

The gourmet who can taste only here and the gift which can't be bought at other ones are also a lot.

The feature of the Sengan-en "two stick rice cake" (450 yen) can be tasted by a set of 3 kinds, soy sauce, fermented soybean paste and soybean flour brown sugar and tea break.
The feature of the Sengan-en "two stick rice cake" (450 yen) can be tasted by a set of 3 kinds, soy sauce, fermented soybean paste and soybean flour brown sugar and tea break.

How to enjoy oneself Sengan-en doesn't just look at a garden. The teahouse cafe green tea and total sweets can enjoy equals particular Dining Area, and a gourmet can be satisfied, too. I recommend Sengan-en local specialty, "two stick (here, BO) rice cake". Because it's similar to the form that a warrior sticks 2 swords of big and small into a lower back "two stick point", it's called rice cake and is the gusto which is eaten and advanced carelessly by the simple taste.
It's also one of pleasantness to buy a gift at a speciality store of Kagoshima gift. When it's intolerable, the original products of the cat for "cat shrine" in the park are popular with cat lovers.

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From wherever I take a picture, the scenery of the each season can be enjoyed at a beautiful garden. When I move to a slightly elevated place, there are also a tile in an orderly building and a hiding photo spot which can look at Kinkouwan Bay together in powerful Sakurajima. Without the fact mistakes which are fascinated in the beautiful garden fused nature.

Place of scenic beauty Sengan-en.
  • The address9700-1, Yoshinocho, Kagoshima-shi, Kagoshima MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Kagoshima Station, about 5 minutes
  • Business hours9:00-17:00
  • Days closedOpen everyday (I'm absent from only a※ Kagoshima marathon date.)
  • Admission[Garden and Takashi old compilation house] adult (more than high school student) It's small 1000 yen, a* junior high school student of 500 yen and infant no charge
    [Palace] 500 yen of adult (than high school student) is small, a* junior high school student of 250 yen
  • TEL099-247-1551
  • ParkingPayment required (300 yen)

If I go to Sakurajima, first, here. The museum where history in Sakurajima can be learned

Inside of the building, Bali AFURI. Even a child can learn history in Sakurajima from adult together.
Inside of the building, Bali AFURI. Even a child can learn history in Sakurajima from adult together.

The volcanic mini museum where it's in the location of 10 minutes on foot from Sakurajima ferry boarding point. There are 6 sections history in Sakurajima, the transfer of the plant and living of the people who live as well as volcanic ash, and inside of the building can learn happily by exhibition of photograph panels and models and a picture about eruptive history and nature in Sakurajima. I equip a theater room well with 200 inches of large screen. It's possible to judge "living Sakurajima" of Tsutomu Osako by a picture for about 13 minutes. Additionally there are adult , a child and the easy game which can be learned happily and the section which can observe volcanic ash by a microscope, and curiosity is an aroused place.

The Shop where a gift Sakurajima can be bought

Camellia oil using YABUTSUBAKI made in Sakurajima. It can be used as hair oil and body oil.
Camellia oil using YABUTSUBAKI made in Sakurajima. It can be used as hair oil and body oil.

A gift uncommon to Sakurajima Visitor Center it's also possible to know about way living where for a resident in Sakurajima is sold. For example the drawstring bag and the tote bag which made the plastic bag distributed from municipality "katsuhaifukuro (for the body, breadbasket)" a motif when ash fall beyond certain quantity was seen around Sakurajima, are one of gifts Sakurajima.
Camellia oil using YABUTSUBAKI, hand cream and Sakurajima radish pickles made in Sakurajima where I also grow up sturdily at the severe environment bottom where volcanic ash falls have complete set of goods of Sakurajima commitment a lot.

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History in Sakurajima is the museum which can be learned happily. It's also recommended to do slowly by the footbath spot which is put in while looking at Kinkouwan Bay which is immediately near in front of Sakurajima Visitor Center.

Sakurajima Visitor Center
  • The addressKagoshima-shi, Kagoshima Sakurajima 1722-29, Yokoyamacho MAP
  • DirectionThan Sakurajima ferry terminal Sakurajima harbor, about 10 minutes on foot
  • Business hours9:00-17:00
  • Days closedOpen everyday
  • AdmissionFree
  • TEL099-293-2443
  • ParkingFree

The place where you can touch an animal while getting a bird's-eye view of a Kirishima mountain range

That a cow, a sheep, a horse and goats are free, the pasture where I live
That a cow, a sheep, a horse and goats are free, the pasture where I live

The sightseeing pasture where you can touch and enjoy Experience, a pasture tour and homemade Experience with the cow, the horse and the sheep which grew up free from all cares at the base in a Kirishima mountain range. A footbath of natural hot spring and animal contact Land are in the vast site in the ideal location, and homemade Experience of milker, sausage in addition to horseback riding, ice cream and butter is made (at the time of preliminary reservation, of details, requiring confirmation).
The soft ice cream by which the one I want to taste by all means used good milk abundantly if it was visited. The natural sweetness of the milk feels the mouth is wide fully by the moderate sweetness, and it's the gusto I'll feel like eating again immediately.

A gift Takachiho Farm is much.

Gift which equals Shop and homemade bread
Gift which equals Shop and homemade bread

The gift which can be bought only here assembles on Shop. A particular gem such as pasture milk, dairy products, homemade bread and ham sausage is in line a lot. It's most popular, for, "Takachiho Farm milk". The Jersey which grew up by natural environment abundant in Takachiho Farm, Guernsey cow and Holstein cow are served rich milk and are popular goods from an adult to a child.
The goods bought at Shop can be shipped off nationwide at the place, so worry is also unnecessary for too much buying a gift. It's even possible to be a online shop and buy it from the later when Ichi paragraph traveled.

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The ideal location which can get a bird's-eye view of a Kirishima mountain range fits a guest with children and a date. Lunch is "oh, Restaurant in a lumberyard" and the outdoors food court, and it's possible to eat Yakiniku BBQ of an orthodox school, a mutton barbecue, Diced Steak and original pizza.

Takachiho Farm
  • The address5265-103, Yoshinomotocho, Miyakonojo-shi, Miyazaki MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from the JRKirishima shrine station, about 10 minutes
  • Bus DirectionI change trains by embussment and a Kirishima shrine from the JRKirishima shrine station and get off, immediately.
  • Business hours4-October 9:00-17:30 and 11-March 9:00-17:00
  • Days closedRegular holiday-less (※ for more information, of a official site, requiring confirmation).
  • AdmissionFree entrance
  • TEL0986-33-2102
  • ParkingFree

Brown vinegar built with therapeutic point in Kagoshima where I protected and was succeeded to It's satisfied with a brown vinegar dish at a place by the origination.

You can have a meal while looking at a jar field of highlights in Restaurant.
You can have a meal while looking at a jar field of highlights in Restaurant.

The information house where history and a process of brown vinegar built with therapeutic point in Kagoshima where it's in Kirishima city Fukuyama-cho "Sakamoto's KUROZU" can be learned and Restaurant where a brown vinegar dish is eaten. Staff/staff member guides me inside of the building politely by preliminary tour reservation at an information house, and a process and history of the brown vinegar built with jar I keep protecting obstinately from the latter period in the Edo Period can be learned.
"Jar field" of the brown vinegar a brew engineer brings up importantly while pouring out the affection like my child is spread in a front page right in front of Property, and to get a bird's-eye view of the stately Sakurajima and Kinkouwan Bay where "jar field" is being watched and seen at all in the inside. It can be satisfied with a dish gentle with the body for which "Sakamoto's KUROZU" was used abundantly and a brown vinegar drink in Restaurant.

Brown vinegar goods gentle with the body appreciated by a gift

You can combine the seasoning of the brown vinegar drink, the dressing and the brown vinegar freely by the place and make it an original gift.
You can combine the seasoning of the brown vinegar drink, the dressing and the brown vinegar freely by the place and make it an original gift.

After learning much about a process and history, I'll also check souvenir. Tasting of brown vinegar and sampling can also be enjoyed at the place. There are brown vinegar goods of which the wide generation can be fond richly, and the "brown vinegar dressing" over which the mellow sour taste with "Sakamoto's KUROZU" spreads in particular is outstanding in the chemistry with the vegetables. Additionally "brown vinegar drink" with apple and a grape is the refreshing taste even the person who doesn't like vinegar can receive well. You can put a selection into a box for presents freely, so a gift, while, it's also recommended to make it a present.

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It's surprised by pioneers' wisdom at the information house where history of "Sakamoto KUROZU" can be learned. The "KUROZU Sweet and Sour Pork" into which a brown beautiful pig made in Kagoshima has been built with brown vinegar sauce of the mellow sour taste recommends main "a jar, field "" lunch" to a lunch menu of Restaurant.

Sakamoto's KUROZU "jar field" information house &Restaurant
  • The addressKagoshima Kirishima city 3075, Fukuyama, Fukuyama-cho MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Kokubu Station, about 20 minutes
  • Business hoursInformation house 9:00-17:00 and Restaurant10:00-17:00 (※ for 10:00-11:00, only dessert drink)
  • Days closedYear-end and new year holidays
  • AdmissionFree entrance
  • TEL0120-707-380
  • ParkingFree

The distillery where some calm country landscapes are spread in the base in a Kirishima mountain range

When I touch, a cold huge tank contains Undiluted Sake of Shochu of about 20,000ℓ chilly.
When I touch, a cold huge tank ℓcontains Undiluted Sake of Shochu of about 20,000 chilly.

Distillery of 1911 year foundation which is learned about by the representative brand at the place a little way from a Kirishima shrine "light agricultural district". Without reservation, a tour in a distillery and history can be learned. The location with which a brook on a river was surrounded by the abundant nature heard can get a bird's-eye view of a mountain, a river and a rice field as the name as "light agricultural district", and is charm.
It's ℓpossible to visit the "turtle therapeutic point" made in Japan where a huge tank with Undiluted Sake of Shochu of about 20,000 isn't changed for more than 100 years in the second half in the first half of the tour. Shochu trained of the Irish folk song wind heard from the inside in a storehouse, a song is a pop so that I hum unconsciously.

Local specialty of Kirishima and the liquor which was taught with the blueberry brought up at an in-house farm

10 year aged sake which pickled a blueberry fruit in Sweet Potato Shochu "blueberry liquor from agricultural district" (2368 yen)
10 year aged sake which pickled a blueberry fruit in Sweet Potato Shochu "blueberry liquor from agricultural district" (2368 yen)

The "blueberry liquor from" agricultural district which pickled the maturity blueberry brought up at an in-house farm in turtle therapeutic point-trained Shochu "light agricultural district" and made them mature for 10 years is recommended to a gift. The favorite gem which didn't use sugar, essence, acid, a color fade prevention pill and an antioxidant at all and made them mature without additives. The taste refreshed with a Sweet Potato Shochu base and the refreshing sour taste of the blueberry origin can be enjoyed. How to drink recommendation cools, and is straight or is by the On the Rocks. It's outstanding in the chemistry with the meat, the fish and the cheese.

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It's good even if Mr. Staff/staff member isn't conversant with Shochu warmly at all as the name as "light agricultural district", either, you tell how to drink to me. Time when the world of the Shochu in which I find interest taking the tour as an opportunity can be learned happily.

Kirishima town distillery Light agricultural district
  • The addressKagoshima Kirishima city Kirishima Taguchi 564-1 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from the JRKirishima shrine station, about 5 minutes
  • Business hours9:00-17:00
  • Days closedJanuary 1-the 3rd
  • AdmissionFree
  • TEL0995-57-0865
  • ParkingFree

The excellent art work fused grand nature of Kirishima

A flower by which the color blooms vividly in an ageless paradise on earth is a theme, and Yayoi Kusama's outdoors work "flower in Shangri-La" shows the life, a soul and a request.
A flower by which the color blooms vividly in an ageless paradise on earth is a theme, and Yayoi Kusama's outdoors work "flower in Shangri-La" shows the life, a soul and a request.

The outdoors museum of art where an art work harmonized with the nature in the west in a Kirishima mountain range and the location of about 700 m of altitude was exhibited. 23 works for the domestic and abroad famous author are exhibited in the wide park in the site circled by abundant nature.
The work for the artist and Yayoi Kusama by which also to give an original existence sense off remarkably at the inside represents Japan. Of the art work fused nature of Kirishima which feels like stopping walking and being immersed in the world of a work carefully besides and suddenly, it's charmed variously. The attraction by which it's the outdoors work that a change in each season can also be enjoyed at the same time. Every time it's visited, you can meet a work of a different expression.

"You, Art" the place where an individual can be the leading role

Work of Korean artistical CHE John fa "you, art"
Work of Korean artistical CHE John fa "you, art"

A domestic and abroad modeling author visits this place actually, and the works exhibited by Mori of Kirishima art are grand nature and the original work which received and planned inspiration from a* cultural background historically.
Artistical CHE where a popular photograph spot is also South Korea at the inside and work of John fa "you, art". All things at which I enter in the architrave are a work and are the outdoors work with a youthful spirit harmonized with nature abundant in Kirishima. A garden path is about 2 km. I'll recommend to have a plenty of leeway in time and visit in order to appreciate each work carefully.

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Photograph is the museum of art where I have many conspicuous spots, but when I judge from an eye, get a feel for and listen to voice of the wild animal which lives in a forest, the natural world and Art's world you can't finish putting back by photograph can feel the moment when I fuse by a heart.

Forest of Kirishima art
  • The addressKagoshima Yusui-cho, Aira-gun lumberyard 6340-220 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Kurino Station, about 13 minutes
  • Business hours9:00-17:00 (for entrance, to 16:30)
    The Saturday . Sunday . national holiday day, July 20-August 31, to 19:00.
  • Days closedMonday (in case of a holiday, the next day) and New Year's
  • AdmissionThe public of 320 yen and a high school college student of 220 yen are small, a* junior high school student of 160 yen and infant no charge
  • TEL0995-74-5945
  • ParkingFree

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