is a

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located on the island of

Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan's Japanese archipelago, four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa Island, Okinawa and the other Ryukyu Islands, Ryukyu (''Nansei'') Ryukyu Islands, Islands ...

and the

Ryukyu Islands The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Geography of Taiwan, Taiwan: the Ryukyu Islands are divided into the Satsunan Islands (Ōsumi Islands, Ōsumi, Tokara Islands, Tokara and A ...

. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,527,019 (1 February 2025) and has a geographic area of 9,187 km² (3,547 sq mi). Kagoshima Prefecture borders

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to the north and Miyazaki Prefecture to the northeast.

Kagoshima , is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 583,966 in 285,992 households, and a population density of 1100 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Etymology While the ...

is the capital and largest city of Kagoshima Prefecture, with other major cities including Kirishima, Kanoya, and Satsumasendai. Kagoshima Prefecture is located at the southernmost point of Kyūshū and includes the Satsunan Islands group of the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture's mainland territory extends from the Ariake Sea to Shibushi Bay on the

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coast, and is characterized by two large

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s created by Kagoshima Bay. Kagoshima Prefecture formed the core of the Satsuma Domain, ruled from Kagoshima Castle, one of the most important Japanese domains of the

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and the

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History

Kagoshima Prefecture corresponds to the ancient Japanese provinces Ōsumi and Satsuma, including the northern part of the

('' Satsunan''). This region played a key role in the

( Saigō Takamori), and the city of

was an important naval base during Japan's 20th century wars and the home of admiral Tōgō Heihachirō. More recent incidents are the sinking of a North Korean spy ship (100 ton class) in 2001 by the

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, which was later salvaged and exhibited in Tokyo, and the abduction of an office clerk from a Kagoshima beach in 1978 by agents from the same country. This became known only recently under the Koizumi administration.

Demographics

The two main ethnic groups of Kagoshima Prefecture are the Japanese and the

Ryukyuans The are a Japonic-speaking East Asian ethnic group indigenous to the Ryukyu Islands, which stretch from the island of Kyushu to the island of Taiwan. With Japan, most Ryukyuans live in the Okinawa Prefecture or Kagoshima Prefecture. They sp ...

(Amami Islands).

Geography

Kagoshima Prefecture is located at the southwest tip of Kyushu on the Satsuma Peninsula and Ōsumi Peninsula. This prefecture also includes a chain of islands stretching further to the southwest of Kyushu for a few hundred kilometers. The most important group is the

Amami Islands The The name ''Amami-guntō'' was standardized on February 15, 2010. Prior to that, another name, ''Amami shotō'' (奄美諸島), was also used. is a Japanese archipelago in the Satsunan Islands, which is part of the Ryukyu Islands, and is sout ...

. Surrounded by the

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to the west,

Okinawa Prefecture is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan. It consists of three main island groups—the Okinawa Islands, the Sakishima Islands, and the Daitō Islands—spread across a maritime zone approximately 1,000 kilometers east to west an ...

in the south,

to the north, and Miyazaki Prefecture to the east, it has of coastline (including the 28 islands). It has a bay called Kagoshima Bay (Kinkowan), which is sandwiched by two peninsulas, Satsuma and Ōsumi. Its position made it a 'gateway' to Japan at various times in history. While Kyushu has about 13 million people, there are less than 2 million in this prefecture. The prefecture boasts a chain of active and dormant

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es, including the great Sakurajima, which towers out of the Kagoshima bay opposite

city. A steady trickle of smoke and ash emerges from the

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, punctuated by louder mini-eruptions on an almost daily basis. On active days in Kagoshima city an umbrella is advisable to ward off the ash. Sakurajima is one of Japan's most active volcanoes. Major eruptions occurred in 1914, when the island mountain spilled enough material to become permanently connected to the mainland, and a lesser eruption in 1960. Volcanic materials in the soil make Sakurajima a source for record daikon radishes, roughly the size of a

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. Many beaches around the Kagoshima Bay are littered with well-worn pumice stones. A crater lake in the southwestern tip of the prefecture, near the spa town of Ibusuki, is home to a rare species of giant eel. As of 31 March 2019, 13% of the total land area of the prefecture was designated as Natural Parks, namely the Amami Guntō, Kirishima-Kinkowan, Unzen-Amakusa, and Yakushima National Parks; Koshikishima and Nichinan Kaigan Quasi-National Parks; and Akune, Bōnoma, Fukiagehama, Imutaike, Ōsumi Nanbu, Sendaigawa Ryūiki, Takakumayama, and Tokara Rettō Prefectural Natural Parks. File:Jomon Sugi 06.jpg, Jōmon Sugi in Yaku Island File:Ishiharayoshiharaueno site3.JPG, Mangrove native forest in Amami Island File:出水・鶴IMGP1033.JPG, A crane observation centre in Izumi crane migration grounds File:Ohara festival in Kagoshima.jpg, Ohara style folk dance in Kagoshima Ohara Festival in November File:Ibusuki-Sand-Bath.JPG, Sand bath style in Ibusuki Spa File:Satsunan-Islands-Kagoshima-Japan.png, Map of Kagoshima Prefecture

Economy

Most of the economic sector is focused in Kagoshima City and the surrounding area, corresponding to the extent of the former Satsuma Province. The eastern part of the prefecture, the former

Ōsumi Province was a province of Japan in the area of southeastern Kyūshū, corresponding to the eastern half of modern Kagoshima Prefecture, and including the Ōsumi Islands . Ōsumi bordered on Hyūga to the northeast, and Satsuma Province to the nor ...

, is mostly rural and shows a general population decline. The prefecture has strong agricultural roots, which are reflected in its most well-known exports:

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, sweet potato, radish, Pongee

rice Rice is a cereal grain and in its Domestication, domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice)—or, much l ...

, Satsuma ware,

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pork ("kurobuta") and local Black

Wagyu Wagyu (, Hepburn romanization, Hepburn: ''wagyū'', ) is the collective name for the four principal List of Japanese cattle breeds, Japanese breeds of beef cattle. All wagyū cattle originate from early twentieth-century cross-breeding between ...

beef. Kagoshima prefecture's production of bonito flakes is second only to that of Shizuoka. In addition, it produces Japan's largest volume of unagi eels. Kagoshima is also largest

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and

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producing prefecture in Japan. The

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(JAXA) has several facilities within the prefecture, including the country's main launch facility on

Tanegashima is one of the Ōsumi Islands belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The island, in area, is the second largest of the Ōsumi Islands, and has a population of 33,000 people. Access to the island is by ferry, or by air to New Tanegashima Airp ...

and the Uchinoura Space Center. The prefecture's

gross domestic product Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the total market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries. GDP is often used to measure the economic performanc ...

is approximately 5,548.7 trillion yen, with a work force of about 791,000 people (2018)

Municipalities

The following is a list of Kagoshima Prefecture's cities, and its administrative districts with their constituent towns and villages:

Cities

Nineteen cities are located in Kagoshima Prefecture:

Districts

These are the towns and villages in each

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Mergers

Culture

Food

Kagoshima Prefecture has a distinct and rich food culture. The warm weather and diverse environments allow for the agriculture and aquaculture of Kagoshima to thrive. Numerous restaurants around Kagoshima feature Satsuma Province local cuisine. Popular cuisine incorporating local agriculture include sweet potato, ''kibinago sashimi'' (silver-striped herring), ''buri'' amberjack, ''kampachi'' yellowtail, "Black Label Products" such as ''kuro-ushi'' Wagyu beef, ''kuro-buta'' Berkshire pork dishes, and ''kuro-Satsuma jidori'' chicken (sometimes served as raw, chicken ''sashimi''); smoked eel, keihan, and ''miki'' (fermented rice milk consumed among residents of the

''Satsuma-age''

'' Satsuma-age'', or deep-fried fish cake, comes in great variety in Kagoshima. Though the deep-fried fishcake can be found throughout the country, the Satsuma Domain (modern-day Kagoshima Prefecture) is commonly believed to be the birthplace of the snack. It is said, though, the concept was introduced from the Ryūkyū Kingdom (modern-day Okinawa Prefecture) by Satsuma Lord, Nariakira Shimazu.

Sweets

There are many types of sweets produced in Kagoshima Prefecture. has produced some of Japan's most popular and timeless sweets such as , , and green tea-flavored Hyōroku mochi, Minami " shirokuma" shaved ice desserts, etc. Traditional treats outside of Seika Food Co., Ltd. products include '' karukan'' (sweet cakes made from steamed yams and rice flour)
''jambo-mochi''
''kokutō'' brown sugar from the Amami Islands, ''getanha'' brown sugar cake, etc.

Beverages

In 1559, at in a carpenter wrote atop a wooden board "the Shintō Priest of this shrine is too stingy to offer me showing an early love for the spirits. Kagoshima Prefecture is officially recognized (by the World Trade Organization) as the home to one of the most traditional beverages of Japan, ''shōchū''. In Kagoshima there are 113+ distilleries, producing about 1,500 highly acclaimed brands, placing Kagoshima in the top for production quantity and shipment. While visiting Kagoshima, one may notice labels reading . ''Honkaku-shōchū'' is a distilled beverage produced with traditional skills using ingredients such as natural spring water, sweet potatoes, locally grown sugar cane, and grains. Varieties of ''honkaku-shōchū'' include , ''shōchū'' distilled from sweet potatoes, , distilled from barley, and distilled from rice. Another type of ''shōchū'' is , ''shōchū'' distilled with brown sugar). ''Shōchū'' has long gained international favor and has come to be comparable to Bordeaux for wine, Scotch for whiskey, and Cognac for brandy. Also, the Amami Islands of Kagoshima Prefecture are the only areas sanctioned to bear the label of ''kokutō-shōchū''. or black vinegar is another item of the "Black Label Products" of Kagoshima, the other of which is ''Kokutō-shōchū''. There are a number of ''kurozu'' farms around Kagoshima, most of which are located around the Kirishima area. Most ''kurozu'' farms produce ''kurozu'' bottled vinegar (fermented for a single year, 2+ years) along with other items such as salad dressing, powders, capsules, spices, candy, etc. ''Kurozu'' also comes in different flavors such as grape, orange, ''ume plum'', etc. though the most popular flavor by far is apple. The farms are open to visitations and often offer tours.

Dialect

Today, Kagoshima is home to a distinctive dialect of Japanese known as or , differing from the usual

dialects with its pronunciations of the

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. For the most part, Satsugū dialect is mutually unintelligible with Standard Japanese, though most Satsugū speakers know both as a result of language standardization in Japan.

Sport and recreation

Kagoshima Rebnise, a professional basketball team, was founded in 2003 and currently competes in the second division of the national B.League. Kagoshima United FC, a football team, was founded in 2014 and competes in the

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. Although no major professional baseball teams are based in the prefecture, a number of Kagoshima's ballparks have hosted the spring training camps of

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teams: *Ibusuki Municipal Ballpark (指宿市営球場), camp home of the Kokutesu Swallows *, camp home of

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(football) * Kagoshima Kamoike Stadium, camp home of Júbilo Iwata (football) and Toshiba Brave Lupus (rugby) * Kamoike Ballpark, previous camp home of the

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(NPB) and

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(

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). Also hosts regular season games. * *Yunomoto Ballpark (湯之元球場), camp home of the Yakult Atoms The Kirishima-Yaku National Park is located in Kagoshima Prefecture.

Education

Universities and colleges

* Daiichi Institute of Technology * Daiichi Junior College of Infant Education * The International University of Kagoshima * Kagoshima Immaculate Heart College *

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* Kagoshima Prefectural College * Kagoshima University * Kagoshima Women's Junior College * National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya * Shigakukan University

High schools

Science and technology facilities

* Tanegashima Space Center * Uchinoura Space Center

Museums

* Bansei Tokkō Peace Museum * Chiran Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots * Museum of the Meiji Restoration * Reimeikan, Kagoshima Prefectural Center for Historical Material * Uenohara site

Transportation

Rail

* Hisatsu Orange Railway * JR Kyushu ** Ibusuki Makurazaki Line ** Hisatsu Line ** Kagoshima Line ** Kitto Line **

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** Nippō Main Line

Trams

* Kagoshima City Tram

Roads

Expressways and toll roads

* Higashikyushu Expressway (Hayato Road) *Ibusuki Toll Road * Kyushu Expressway * Minamikyushu Expressway * Miyazaki Expressway

National highways

* National Route 3 (

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–

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– Kurume–

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– Minamata-Izumi-Satsuma Sendai-Kagoshima) * National Route 10 (Kitakyushu- Nakatsu– Beppu– Saiki– Nobeoka– Miyazaki– Miyakonojo-Kagoshima) * National Route 58 (disconnected segments in downtown Kagoshima and on the islands of

and Amami Ōshima) *Route 220 (Miyazaki- Nichinan-Shibushi-Kanoya-Tarumizu-Kirishima) *Route 223 *Route 224 *Route 225 *Route 226 *Route 267 ( Hitoyoshi-Isa-Satsuma Sendai) *Route 268 (Minamata-Isa- Ebino– Kobayashi-Miyazaki) *Route 269 *Route 270 *Route 328 (Kagoshima-Isa-Izumi) *Route 389 ( Ōmuta– Tamana– Unzen– Minamishimabara– Amakusa-Akune) *Route 447 (Ebino-Isa-Izumi) *Route 448 *Route 499 *Route 504 (Kanoya-Kirishima-Satsuma-Izumi)

Ports

*Kagoshima Port **Domestic ferry route to Sakurajima, Kikai Island, Tokunoshima, Amami Island,

, Yakushima, Yoron Island, Okinoerabu and Naha. **High-speed craft route to Ibusuki, Tanegashima and Yakushima. **International container hub port *Naze Port **Ferry Route to Osaka, Kobe, Kagoshima, Yakushima, Tanegashima, Tokunoshima and Naha. *Shibushi Port **Ferry route to

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, Tokyo, Naha and Amami Island **International and domestic container hub port *Tanegashima Port *Tokunoshima Port *Yakushima Port

Airports

* Amami Airport * Kagoshima Airport * Okinoerabu Airport * Tanegashima Airport * Tokunoshima Airport * Yakushima Airport * Yoron Airport

Notable people

* Isamu Akasaki, physicist and engineer,

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laureate * Hajime Chitose, singer * Hayato Tani, actor * Yasuhito Endo, football player * Kosuke Fukudome, MLB player * GO!GO!7188, rock band * Masazumi Harada, doctor * Goyō Hashiguchi, artist * Utami Hayashishita, professional wrestler * Tōgō Heihachirō, admiral of the fleet in the

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* Kota Ibushi, professional Wrestler * Kazuo Inamori, industrialist turned philanthropist * Junichi Inamoto, football player *

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, modern comic artist * Shinobu Kaitani, modern comic artist * Yuki Kashiwagi,

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member * Kunio Kato animator known especially for '' La Maison en Petits Cubes'' * Yoichiro Kawaguchi, computer graphics artist * Munenori Kawasaki, MLB player * Kohei Miyauchi, voice actor * Sakura Miyawaki,

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and

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member * Mika Nakashima, artist * Shimazu Nariakira, feudal lord * Yuya Osako, football player * Robico, manga artist * Jirō Sakagami, comedian * Hiroyuki Sakai, '' Iron Chef'' cook * Hitoshi Sakimoto, composer * Nanami Sakuraba, actress * Tokichi Setoguchi, composer * Yoku Shioya, voice actor * Kawasaki Shōzō, founder of Kawasaki Heavy Industries * Kento Tachibanada, football player * Nabi Tajima, oldest Japanese and Asian person ever, last living person born in the 19th century * Saigō Takamori, samurai * Seiji Tōgō, artist * Ōkubo Toshimichi, statesman * Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, swimmer, Olympic Games double gold medalist * Wowaka, singer

Mythical creatures

* Garappa (Kappa) * Issie * Ittan-momen

International relations

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, United States, since November 28, 1966 *

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, since July 27, 1971 * Jeollabuk-do, South Korea, since October 1989, duo-declaration *

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, China

Notes

References

* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan Encyclopedia''
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ; ; .

External links

* *

Official Kagoshima Prefecture Promotional Website
* National Archives of Japa
... Kagoshima map (1891)
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