Wetland / Marshland Spots in Kagoshima Area

  • Onami Pond
    Travel / Tourism
    Kagoshima Kirishima-shi Makizonocho Takachiho
    This mountaintop crater lake, praised for its cobalt blue water, is the largest in Japan and is situated on top of the 1,241-meter-high Kirishima Mountains. Found amidst virgin Japanese fir and southern Japanese hemlock forest, a stone-paved mountain trail makes it possible to reach the pond from the trailhead in about 40 minutes. Another walking path circling the pond can be walked in about two hours. Visitors at the beginning of spring can see Japanese witch-hazel and Rhododendron kiusianum blooming in profusion along the crater wall; in autumn, the fall foliage of maples and red pines; and in winter, frost-covered trees.
  • Unagi Pond
    Travel / Tourism
    Kagoshima Ibusuki-shi

Kagoshima Areas

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Over 100 active volcanoes across Kagoshima make it one of the Japan's most exciting prefectures. The prefectural capital, Kagoshima city, looks out to one of the prefecture’s most spectacular volcanoes, Sakurajima, an island of its own that can be visited and seen close up or admired from afar, with the promise of breathtaking sunsets complete with frequent puffs of smoke and ash. Down the Satsuma Peninsula, the most southerly part of mainland Japan, waterfalls, sand onsen, and fascinating history await, while Kagoshima's abundance of satsuma imo (sweet potato) provide a wholesome snack as well as one of Japan's favourite drinks - shochu.

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