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Kagoshima, Japan

Japan's largest major city, Kagoshima offers a memorable mix of unique cuisine, historical attraction and external activities in its temperate season. The elegant assets of Shimdzu Samurai clan, sweeping the Beyside Vista in Sengan-N, and walking in gardens filled with cherry blossom. The cruise for Kagoshima and the head on the Yuriqama Beach, with its bright water and mysterious sandbar which appears in a slightly different place every month, which is based on the tide.

National Language

Japanese

Currency Accepted

Japanese Yen (JPY)

Okinawa Cruise

From $422/person

Pharaohs Maare

Okinawa Cruise

From $482/person

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Okinawa & Ishigaki Cruise

From $582/person

Pharaohs Maare

Okinawa & Ishigaki Cruise

From $599/person

Pharaohs Maare

Okinawa Overnight Cruise

From $522/person

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Samurai Garden

Timely steps in Sengan-N, a huge samurai property that was originally built in the 17th century, provides scenes of the breathtaking garden of the Gulf and Sakurajima in a distant. The villa here was made from Yakushima cedar trees over 1,000 years of age; This is the perfect place to try traditional Japanese green tea and chocolate sweets.

Historic Lookout

The head of the Shiroyama Lookout, a hill park with the city view. Heads Up, History Buffs: It was the last battle site of the satsuma rebellion, in which the last Samurai, Sigo Taxori fulfilled its end. Depending on the cruise and the remains of a fort for Kagoshima, check the Remikan Museum in the foot of the hill which once stood here.

Local Cuisine

Food in Kagoshima centers around Kurobuta, or "Black Pork"-It comes from a black haired breed of heritage pigs that produces meat with a delicate, sweet taste. Good stuff try to style shabu-shabu hot pot style, wash it with a cup of shchu, an distilled wine from southern Japan that is often made with sweet potato, barley, sugarcane and a type of grain.

Shopping

For unique Kagoshima items, the head in the Tenmankan district, including handmade satsumkiriko cut glass, satsumayaki porcelain vases and bowls, Oshima Tsumugi textiles and other handicrafts from Kagoshima and Ryukyu Island to south. Tenmonacon shops also offer various varieties of Schchu.