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Sweet · Kagoshima
Shirokuma
Shaved ice topped with condensed milk, colorful fruit, agar jelly cubes and azuki beans. The name, polar bear, comes from how it looks from above. A summer sweet from Kagoshima.
Kagoshima · Japan Capital
Kagoshima
In the destination Kagoshima and Sakurajima.
In the photo: Kagoshima port seen from the ferry
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The city
What to expect from Kagoshima.
Kagoshima is the capital of the eponymous prefecture, on Kinko Bay, facing the Sakurajima volcano. Former seat of the Satsuma domain, it has the Sengan-en garden and the Shuseikan factories (UNESCO), the Shiroyama lookout, the Tenmonkan neighborhood and the ferry port to the volcano and to Yakushima. It is the last stop of Kyushu’s bullet train.
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The local experience
What to see in Kagoshima
Volcano
Sakurajima
An active volcano opposite Kagoshima, 15 minutes by ferry, with lookouts on its slopes, trails over the 1914 lava, a bayfront footbath and the buried torii of Kurokami.
Garden
Sengan-en Garden
Garden and residence of the Shimazu family, from 1658, which uses Sakurajima and the bay as a borrowed landscape; next to it is the Shoko Shuseikan Museum, in a 19th-century stone workshop.
Lookout
Shiroyama Observatory
A hill of about 100 meters in central Kagoshima, with subtropical forest and a viewpoint over the city, the bay and Sakurajima; the Satsuma Rebellion ended there in 1877.
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