Rugby World UK – August 2019

Kagoshima is located in the southernmost
part of Kyushu, where you’ll find beautiful
scenery and bountiful food...

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The Culture Vulture
Take a tour of Kagoshima
Fish Market with an
English-speaking guide. Kagoshima
boasts the third-longest coastline in
Japan and with the Kuroshio Current
there is a huge variety of fish available.
Try a hot sand bath, where you are
buried in the sand. You can regulate the
temperature by the sand’s depth and
you only need to be in one for about
ten minutes to sweat out your body’s
impurities and feel refreshed.
At the Samurai Armour Experience you
can try on armour and walk around the
gardens. The atelier here produces 90%
of the Japanese armour used in movies.

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The Foodie
Kagoshima is known
for producing sweet
potato and brown sugar shochu
(distilled liquor), and is home
to 114 distilleries and more
than 2,000 brands. Try
some to find the best
shochu for you.
Kagoshima
black cattle are
blessed with the
surroundings of a

Kagoshima

warm climate, so the beef is of the highest

quality and has won Japan’s beef contest.

Shaved ice is a summer tradition in

Japan and people from all over the

country travel to Kagoshima just for

‘shirokuma’. While elsewhere the ice

is covered with colourful syrups like

strawberry or melon, in Kagoshima

condensed milk is the topping of choice.

With fruit scattered on top, it almost looks

like a bear’s face, hence why it is called

‘shirokuma’ (polar bear) in Kagoshima.

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The Adventurer

Chiringashima is an uninhabited

island floating in Kagoshima Bay.

At low tide from March to October, it is

connected to the mainland and you can

walk the 800m-long sandbar to explore

‘the island of mystery’ as it is known.

On the island of Amami Oshima, which

is home to several rare animals, you can

kayak through the wild forests.

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The Party Animal

Kagomma Furusato Yataimura

• a food market – is lined with
  25 izakayas offering traditional local
  cuisine and Kagoshima’s unique tapas.
  It’s popular with locals and international
  travellers, and is the perfect spot to
  while away an evening.

For more travel information...

kagoshima-kankou.com/for/

Discover the wild and tropical nature of this prefecture

Time to relax

A hot sand bath

Fair share

Kagoshima tapas

Get there

JAL, ANA, Skymark

and Solaseed fly between

Haneda Airport and Kagoshima,

while Jetstar fly from Narita. All in

one hour, 40 minutes. It’s only

70 minutes to fly from Osaka

and also a 90-minute train

ride from Fukuoka