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Jun 25, 2025

　　This famous shrine is in memory of Shimazu Nariakira (1809–58), celebrated 11th leader of the Satsuma clan in the late Edo period. He is credited with opening Satsuma and Japan to Western influence and the modern age. The unusually shaped roof resembles a bird in flight.

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Kagoshima City Museum of Art
Kagoshima
　　The Kagoshima City Museum of Art has a small permanent collection of works by modern-day Kagoshima painters, as well as some 16th-century porcelains and woodblock prints, and a wonderful collection of Sakurajima paintings. ...
Terukuni-jinja
Kagoshima
　　This famous shrine is in memory of Shimazu Nariakira (1809–58), celebrated 11th leader of the Satsuma clan in the late Edo period. He is credited with opening Satsuma and Japan to Western influence and the modern age. The unusually shaped roof resembles a bird in flight. ...
Shōko Shūseikan
Kagoshima
　　Adjacent to Sengan-en, this 1850s building, a Unesco World Heritage site as Japan's first modern factory, has been converted into a museum. Historical artefacts relate to the Shimazu family and early trade and industry – in fact, most of the 10,000 items are precious heirlooms, among them ancient scrolls, military...
Nishi Hongan-ji Kagoshima Betsuin
Kagoshima
　　The current building of this large Buddhist temple near Tenmonkan dates from 1982 and was renovated in 2013. Inside, it's unlike most temples you may have seen, with carpeting and chair seating in its main hall, but it's worth a quick visit for the intricate gilded carvings around the altar...
Museum of the Meiji Restoration
Kagoshima
　　This museum offers insights into the unique social system of education, samurai loyalty and sword techniques that made Satsuma one of Japan's leading provinces. There's a good smartphone app in English. Hourly audiovisual presentations – told by animatronic Meiji-era reformers, including Saigō Takamori and Sakamoto Ryōma – detail the Satsuma...
Sengan-en
Kagoshima
　　In 1658, the 19th Shimazu lord laid out his pleasure garden on this hilly, rambling bayside property of groves, hillside trails and one of Japan's most impressive pieces of 'borrowed scenery': the fuming peak of Sakurajima. 　　Allow 45 minutes for a leisurely stroll through the garden, and 30 minutes more...
Satsuma Students Statue
Kagoshima
　　This statue and landmark commemorates the students from Satsuma (the feudal name for Kagoshima) who went to study Western technology in the UK in 1865. Their mission was said to be the spark of Japan's industrial revolution. ...
Reimeikan
Kagoshima
　　The Reimeikan has extensive displays on Satsuma history and ancient sword-making. It's inside the site of Kagoshima's castle, Tsurumaru-jō (1602); the walls and moat are all that remain, and bullet holes in the stones are still visible. It's behind Kagoshima's City Hall and government buildings. ...
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