Best Tourist Spots In Kagoshima
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The heart-rock of Amami Oshima Island is located at the Bira Beach in Tatsugo town near the airport. Also, near a delicious gelato shop La Fonte. Park your car, and walk 5 min in the woods, then you can find the beach in front of you. Many tide pools appear when the tide in on the ebb, and this heart-rock is one of them. We could visit here on the day of spring tide, we could see the most beautiful heart-rock.
Name
Heart Rock Amami Oshima
Address
1346-1 Akaogi, Tatsugo-cho, Oshima-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
15 min by car from Amami Oshima Airport
Parking
Parking area is available
Amami Oshima resort facility along the white sand beach. You can see everything from the inns where you can stay, restaurants where you can enjoy island cuisine, experience facilities, souvenir shops, the clear blue sea that stretches far into the distance, and the beautiful sunset. In the summer, you can also enjoy marine sports at this facility, where you can enjoy Amami Oshima to the fullest.
Name
Amami Resort Bashayamamura
Address
1261-1 Yoyasu, Kasari Town, Amami-shi, KagoshimaGoogle Map
Tel
0997-63-1178
How to get there
10 min by car, from Amami Airport
In Kagoshima, I find much more beautiful scenery than those of southern resort in other countries.
Name
Yoron Island Yuriga-hama Beach
Address
Yoron-cho, Oshima-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
20 min by car or taxi from Yoron Airport to Ooganeku Beach, then, 1.5 km by boat.
I like a movie 'Princess Mononoke' by Hayao Miyazaki, and I walked in Yakushima Island's Shiratani Unsui Gorge that is said to be a model of the movie. Its inner place is called 'Mononoke Forest', and I was very impressed with the great forest covered completely with moss!◎Access by bus or taxi
Name
Shiratani Unsui Gorge
Address
Miyanoura Yakushima-cho, Kumage-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
30 min by bus from Miyanoura Port. 30 min by car from Yakushima Airport.
Parking
Parking area is available
Kurasaki Beach is very transparent and a popular spot for snorkeling and diving. Just walking around is pleasant. The fruit of adan makes the tropical atmosphere. If you stay in a nearby hotel Native Sea Amami, you can access directly to the sea.
Name
Kurasaki Beach
Address
885-4 Ashitoku Tatsugo-cho, Oshima-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
25 min from Amami Airport by car.
Parking
Parking area is available
It's a Yaku-sugi cedar named Wilson stump. I could enter the inside and it looks heart shape seen up the sky from a certain angle.
Name
Yakushima Island
Address
Yakushima, Kumage-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
The north part of Amami Oshima Island, in a path along the Tomori seashore, many tropical flowers bloom and ceylon blue glassy tiger butterflies flutter around the flowers. The scenery is like a paradise. It'll be wonderful to walk in the morning.
You can enjoy canoe when the tide is high at a primeval forest of mangrove in Amami. The most impressive is the mangrove tunnel! Let's enjoy going slowly, but be careful not to bump. ◎To Amami Oshima, you can access by plane and ferry, and then, car and bus are available.
Name
Kuroshio no Mori Mangrove Park
Address
478 Ishihara Sumiyou-cho, Amami-shi, KagoshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
By car, 70 min from Amami Airport, or 20 min from Nase Port.
A quiet beach at the cape of northern Amami. For not easy way to go, there's a few people there and it's like a private beach. I can't get tired of seeing the beautiful emerald green gradation all day long.
There's a surprisingly much of private mood. And, so beautiful sea though there's no people. Yadori Beach is located at the edge of Amami Oshima Island, so you try to stop by on the way to Kakeroma Island by any means!
Name
Yadori Hama Beach
Address
Sokaru Setouchi-cho, Oshima-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
100 min by car from Amami Airport
Parking
Parking area is available
An isolated island in southernmost Kagoshima, Yoron Island. The clear ocean and sky always welcome you. I was unconscious of the passage of time and looked the ocean and the sky.
Name
Ōkaneku Beach
Address
32-1 Chabana, Yoron-cho, Oshima-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
17 min by car from Yoron Airport
Mitarashi (worshippers wash their hands in) River dry up between November and April, but mysteriously, clear water and fish spring out and make a limpid stream in May.
Name
Kirishima Shrine
Address
2608-5 Kirishima Taguchi, Kirishima-shi, Kagoshima, JapanGoogle Map
Tel
0995-57-0001
How to get there
15 min by car, from Kirishimajingu Station
Misaki Shrine, located on Sata-misaki Point in Kagoshima, is surrounded by the tropical plants such as banyan and palm trees. A little strange scenery that a shrine stands in a tropical mood, but you can feel the unique holy air here.
Name
Misaki Shrine
Address
Sata Point Satanagome Minamiosumi-cho, Kimotsuki-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
Tel
0994-24-3115
How to get there
Miyakozaki Cape, projects from the center of west seashore of Amami Oshima Islad, has the 360-degrees panoramic view of blue and green. Going ahead in the bamboo-like meadow, there's the East Chine Sea expanding so far away. It needs 20 min walk from the parking area, but you can have the supreme feeling when you arrive. I found a endangered species Taiwan Mountain Azalea.
Name
Miyakozaki Cape
Address
Miyakozaki, Kuninao, Yamato-son, Oshima-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
60 min by car from Amami Airport
Maruo Falls, located in Maruo Onsen, one of the Kirishima hot spring villages, is a hot spring waterfall that is worth seeing even during the day, but it is very beautiful at night when it is lit up. I spent some time looking at the waterfall, healed by the sound of the waterfall and negative ions.
Name
Maruonotaki Falls
Address
Makizono-machi, Kirishima-shi, Kagoshima, JapanGoogle Map
How to get there
15 min by car, from Kirishimajingu Station
Arangachi Fall located in Uken Village, the south-west part of Amami Oshima Island. Its water is so beautiful that it was used to be drinking-water. It has about 30 meters drop, great sounds of water, emerald green basin, and much of negative ions. It's a best relaxing spot.
Name
Arangachi Fall
Address
1835 Yuwan, Uken-son, Oshima-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
90 min by car from Amami Airport
At Satsuma Peninsula of Kagoshima, Urashima Taro has said to leave this place called Nagasakibana to Ryugu Castle, and Ryugu Shrine stands here. You can see the refreshing scenery of the ocean and Mt.Kaimon-bake over the torii gate.
Name
Ryugu Shrine
Address
1578-8 Yamagawaokachiyogamizu, Ibusuki-shi, KagoshimaGoogle Map
Tel
0993-35-0811
How to get there
Nishioyama Station is the southernmost station of JR. It has a nice view of Kaimon-dake mountain, and also a yellow mailbox that delivers you happiness. How about sending your special feelings from the southernmost station?
Name
Nishioyama Station
Address
602 Yamagawaoyama, Ibusuki-shi, KagoshimaGoogle Map
Tel
0993-34-0132
How to get there
Amami Oshima has officially become a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site‼ ︎ A cute photo spot on the observation deck of Amami Oshima. The sky was clear blue and the view from the observation deck was very beautiful.
Name
Amami Airport
Address
374-4 Kasari-cho, Amamioshima-Island, Kagoshima, JapanGoogle Map
How to get there
Amami Airport
Sengan-en is a garden of the old Satsuma Clan since Edo Period. Outside the garden, there're beautiful blue Kinko Bay and big Sakurajima Mountain! You can see the scenery of Kagoshima such as cherry blossoms in spring. Also, they prepare massive kinds of local souvenir like Satsuma Kiriko Glass.
Name
Sengan-en Garden
Address
9700-1 Yoshino-cho, Kagoshima-shi, KagoshimaGoogle Map
Tel
099-247-1551
Hours
8:30-17:30
How to get there
By car, 20min from Kagoshima Chuou Station, 40min from Kagoshima airport, 10min from Sakurajima Ferry Pier, 30min from Aira IC. By bus, 30min from Kagoshima Chuou Station.
Parking
Parking area is available
Kakeroma Island has a complicated topography and there are uninhabited white sand beaches studded. By a kayak to the beach you can't go by land. On the morning of that day, the wave is so calm that I enjoyed the clear water surface riding on a kayak I borrowed from a hotel.
Name
Kakeroma Island
Address
Setouchi-cho, Oshima-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
Untouched nature and amazingly transparent sea. Ōhama Beach is like a private beach cause there're few tourists. You never get tired of looking that beautiful ocean.
Name
Ōhama Beach
Address
701-1 Ōhama Naze Koshuku, Amami-shi, KagoshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
60 min by car from Amami Airport
Parking
Free parking area is available
A cute bus stop that recreates the world of Totoro, a hidden photo spot on Amami Oshima. Totoro, Mei-chan, and Satsuki-chan wait for the bus. If you look closely, you can also see Makkurokurosuke and Little Totoro. It feels like you've entered the world of a Ghibli movie. Although it is not a real bus stop, be sure to wait with Totoro for the cat bus to arrive.
Name
Totoro Bus Stop
Address
1283 Setouchi-cho, Amamioshima-Island, Kagoshima, JapanGoogle Map
How to get there
100 min by car, from Amami-Airport
Kobatachigami is a symbol of Gajo Island called God's rock as high as more than 100 meters. Around the rock is a popular spot for fishing and diving.
Name
Gaja Island
Address
Gajajima Toshima-mura, Kagoshima-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
At Manenzaki Observatory in the south of Amami Oshima Island, we can see various blue landscapes. Katetsu Bay of emerald green and blue, Oshima Strait of deeper blue. The colors change by the angles we see them. What's more, we can see Kakeroma Island on the opposite side, so there's a succession of beautiful scenery!
Name
Manenzaki Observatory
Address
Setouchi-cho, Oshima-gun, KagoshimaGoogle Map
How to get there
100 min by car from Amami Oshima Airport
Parking
Parking area is available
