Kagoshima Attractions

Kagoshima Prefectural Museum of Reimeikan Culture is home to history, folk customs as well as fine arts and crafts of Kagoshima. The Reimeikan is enclosed in the ruins of Tsurumaru castle with the moat, stonewall and stone bridge still standing today.

Senganen, also known as Isoteien, is a Japanese style landscaped garden, located at the foot of a wooded hill along the coast near Kagoshima. The garden contains beautiful former residential buildings and a small museum dedicated to the Shimazu Clan, which ruled Kagoshima for almost 700 years.

Shoko Shuseikan Museum is house in Japan's first industrial factory, built in the mid-1850's. Exhibits feature items from the Shimadzu clan covering almost 700 years of history. Family heirlooms include lacquerware, tea-ceremony objects and photographs.