Description:
Includes:Kagoshima Prefecture
Kagoshima City (transportation, shopping, entertaiment & night life, accomodation, eating (breakfast, Tonkatsu Teishoku, Tempura Teishoku, Chinese food, Takitori, Satsuma cooking)
Sakurajima
Ibusuki Onsen
Iso Garden
Shiroyama
Mount Kaimon
Kirishima
Recommended souvenirs
Useful Japanese Phrases
Kagoshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu.
Kagoshima Prefecture is located at the southwest tip of Kyushu and includes a chain of islands stretching further to the southwest for a few hundred kilometers. The most important group is the Amami Islands. Surrounded by the East China Sea to the west, Okinawa Prefecture in the south, Kumamoto Prefecture to the north, and Miyazaki Prefecture to the east, it has 2,632 km of coastline (including the 28 islands). It has a bay called Kagoshima Bay (Kinkowan), which is sandwiched by two peninsulas, Satsuma and Ōsumi. Its position made it a 'gateway' to Japan at various times in history. While Kyushu… Read More