Kagoshima Airport 49 min
Kagoshima Castle Ruins (12 min)
Landmark urban site featuring the moats & stone wall ruins of a 1601 castle, plus a history museum. Kagoshima City Aquarium (10 min)
Popular aquarium featuring a variety of native marine life, along with feedings & dolphin shows. 湯之平展望所 Yunohira View Place (55 min) Shiroyama Park Observation Deck (10 min) Saigo Takamori Statue (11 min)
8-meter-tall monument depicting an iconic, 19th-century general & leader of the Meiji Restoration. Mt Shiroyama (9 min)
Once a historic battle site, this urban peak offers a promenade & observation deck with city views. Yoshino Park kagoshima (19 min) Sengan-en (10 min)
Traditional Japanese garden & former residence of a feudal lord, with guided tours & volcano views. Terukuni Shrine (13 min)
Landmark, 19th-century Shinto shrine featuring a tree pruned into the shape of a flying bird. Sakurajima Visitor Center (46 min)
Volcano, museum, and nature Amuran (10 min)
Offering city & mountain views, a Ferris wheel with a transparent gondola & a light show after dark. Kagoshima City Museum of Art (12 min)
Expansive art gallery, opened in 1985, featuring local works & those of painter Claude Monet. Shoko Shuseikan Museum (11 min)
History museum charting Japan's industrial revolution in an 1865 factory & World Heritage site. Sakurajima (59 min)
Formerly on an island, a 1914 eruption connected this active stratovolcano to the Osumi peninsula. Kagoshima City Museum of Meiji Restoration (13 min)
Small history museum dedicated to the Meiji restoration period in 19th-century Imperial Japan. | 
