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  • Honohoshi Beach
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    Kagoshima Pref. Oshimagunsetouchichou Koniya Revival
    This coast is located at the southern end of Amami Oshima Island. Naturally formed round stones cover the entire coast, and visitors can appreciate the sight and sound of the stones exposed to the ocean waves. It is famous as a power spot, and it is said that disaster will befall anyone who take the stones away, so it is forbidden to remove them. There is also a parking lot with toilets nearby, as many tourists visit this location.
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  • The Remains of Nanshu Saigo
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    Oshima-gun, Kagoshima Tatsugo-cho Ryugo 166
    This wooden residence is where Saigo Takamori lived for around three years when he was ordered to stay in Amami Oshima Island. It is now a private property managed by the son of his wife, Aigana, and is open to the public as a paid-entry museum. The residence has valuable items such as Saigo Takamori's personal history and private writings, and a stone monument to his wife, Aigana, on display. There is also another monument with the lettering from Katsu inscribed on it.
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  • Yani Kawa Dori
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    Kagoshima Amami-shi Naze Irifunecho
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  • Kedomi Toge
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    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Setouchicho Kedomi
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  • Surihama Beach
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    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Setouchicho Shokazu
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  • Shodon Deigo Trees
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    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Setouchicho Shodon
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  • Honohoshi Coast
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    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Setouchicho Sokaru
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  • Miyakozaki
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    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Yamatoson Kuninao 668-7
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  • Materiya Falls
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    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Yamatoson Naon
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  • Frasco
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    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Tatsugocho Ogachi 982
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  • Amami Lucky Rentacar Naze Business Office
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    Kagoshima Amami-shi Naze Nagahamacho 27-1
    Located in Hotel Big Marine Amami, not far from Nagahama Port, you can rent a car with a car navigation system at a reasonable price. You can choose from a variety of vehicles such as compact cars, wagons, and light trucks, and you can return your car at your convenience 24 hours a day.
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  • Amami City Folk Heritage Museum
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    Kagoshima Amami-shi Kasaricho Suno 670
    This museum is located about a 10-minute drive from Amami Airport. The left side of the museum features two permanent exhibit halls dedicated to the archaeology and folk culture of the Amami Islands, respectively. The right side of the museum is a Special Exhibit Hall where visitors can learn about the history and origins of the island through exhibits including archaeological artifacts uncovered locally in Kasari-cho and taxidermy specimens of local wildlife. The Archaeological Exhibit Hall exhibits artifacts dating from the Paleolithic era to the Middle Ages in chronological order. There is something for people of all ages to enjoy at the museum thanks to the broad range of subjects including archaeology, history, and folk customs covered by its ample exhibits.
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  • Kenmun Village
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    Kagoshima Amami-shi Kasaricho Yoan 1246
    "This facility located at Amami Resort Bashayamamura on the Yoan Coast offers a variety of hands-on experiences. It is named after ""Kenmun,"" which are nature guardian deities that live in the forests of the Amami Islands according to local folklore. Activities include ""shima uta"" (local folk song) singing lessons, brown sugar candy making, and salt making. The brown sugar making experience, which takes about an hour, allows participants to make two varieties of simple old-fashioned candy using brown sugar. The facility offers a daylong ""villager experience"" that includes a choice of two activities as well the rental of a villager costume."
  • Amami Mangrove Forest
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    Kagoshima Amami-shi Sumiyocho Yakugachi
    """Mangrove"" is a general term for the wild plants that inhabit marshlands and tidelands in tropical and subtropical regions. 94% of Amami City's Sumiyo-cho on southern Amami Oshima Island is covered by mountainous forests. The former town also boasts a magnificent forest of Kandelia obovata and Bruguiera gymnorhiza mangroves (special protection area of Amamigunto National Park) that extends across the estuary of Sumiyo Bay, which faces the Pacific Ocean. The forest, which extends over more than 71 hectares of the estuary shared by the Yakugachi River and the Sumiyo River. Two companies offer canoeing tours of the mangrove forest. Tour participants can enjoy the extraordinary experience of feeling like adventurers as they pilot canoes through waterways surrounded by mangroves."
  • Amami-ya
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    Kagoshima Amami-shi Nazemanazucho 4-56
    This Amami Oshima tour guide service offers a variety of tours of Amami Nature Observation Forest, which is part of the Amamigunto National Park. Although there is no minimum group size (tours can be booked even for one person), tours are limited to just one per day in order to provide participants the best experience possible. Tour participants can search for wild birds, insects, and other creatures as they explore a forest of Itajii trees (Castanopsis sieboldii), one of the tree species emblematic of Amami Oshima Island. During the tour participants will visit a scenic observatory where they will receive a lecture on the origins of Amami Oshima Island and the relationship between the island's ocean, mountains, and people. Each tour takes about four hours. Most conveniently, the company offers the option to choose any departure time between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Other tours on offer include canoeing tours and nocturnal wildlife observation tours.
  • Amami City Amami Museum
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Kagoshima Amami-shi Naze Nagahamacho 517
    This museum opened in 1987 as the first general museum in the Amami Islands. It conducts investigative research and the collection and preservation of artifacts in order to understand the nature, history, culture, and of the Amami Islands. The museum underwent a complete renovation in 2019. The ocean-themed first floor features exhibits on boats and fishing in the Amami Islands, live specimens of Amami Oshima's rare native wildlife, and more. The second floor features hands-on exhibits such as looms and sugar cane presses that teach visitors about the lifestyle of the Amami Islands. The museum also features outdoor exhibits including a relocated and restored traditional Amami home and elevated storehouse.
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  • Isson Tanaka's Final Residence
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    Kagoshima Amami-shi Naze Ariya Cho 38-3
    This home was the final residence of the Nihonga painter Isson Tanaka, who moved to Amami Oshima Island after being charmed by the nature of these southern islands when he was 50 years old. The joy of living in this new home, which he purportedly considered to be like a palace compared to the previous home he had long rented, is said to have rejuvenated his creative urges. His paintings in this period are best characterized by his boldly composed and detailed depictions of the island's subtropical plants and fish. He continued to create paintings inspired by the nature of the Amami Islands until he passed away in obscurity at the age of 69 in 1977. The anniversary of his death is still marked by members of the community.
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  • Statue of Shigechiyo Izumi
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    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Isencho Asan
    Shigechiyo Izumi, who was born in Asan, Isen Town in 1865 and died in 1985 at the age of 120, is said to have been the last survivor of the Edo Period (1615-1868). In 1976, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized him as the longest-lived human, and in honor of this achievement, a copper statue and a museum were built in the agricultural area on the southern part of Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, where Izumi's home was. The museum contains a large number of photographs and personal items that convey the story of Izumi's long life to present-day visitors.
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  • Isen Town History and Folklore Museum
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    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Isencho Isen 2945-3
    A folk museum that describes the geography, culture, and traditional lifestyles of Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture. It is located near Prefectural Route 83 near the southern tip of the island inside the remodeled building of a former agricultural high school. The exhibits are divided into three sections: nature, traditional artifacts, and archeology. In addition to traditional items used in the 19th and early to mid-20th centuries and rock samples, visitors are intrigued by the earthenware vessels and buried human bones excavated at the ruins of the Tokunoshima Kamuiyaki Pottery Kiln. Other unique historical and cultural that visitors can peruse include exhibits include stones for grinding sugar cane and videos of island songs,
  • The Coral Stone Walls of Aden
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    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Kikaicho Aden
    Located about a 15-minute drive from the Kikaijima Airport, in an area where no pit vipers live, these numerous coral stone walls are especially well preserved and highly regarded as important cultural properties. The hamlet of Aden contains an especially large number, and it is part of an island walking route led by local residents who act as volunteer guides. The Aden route takes visitors to the place where ethnographer Ichiro Iwakura was born, and to the sites where a number of movies were filmed.
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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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