11 Facts About Kagoshima

Kagoshima Prefecture was the center of the territory of the Shimazu clan for many centuries.

Kagoshima City was a busy political and commercial port city throughout the medieval period and into the Edo period when it formally became the capital of the Shimazu's fief, the Satsuma Domain.

Kagoshima was a significant center of Christian activity in Japan prior to the imposition of bans against that religion in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

Kagoshima was bombarded by the British Royal Navy in 1863 to punish the daimyo of Satsuma for the murder of Charles Lennox Richardson on the Tokaido highway the previous year and its refusal to pay an indemnity in compensation.

Kagoshima was the birthplace and scene of the last stand of Saigo Takamori, a legendary figure in Meiji Era Japan in 1877 at the end of the Satsuma Rebellion.

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Kagoshima led the Grand Fleet to two startling victories in 1904 and 1905, completely destroying Russia as a naval power in the East, and thereby contributing to the failed revolution in Russia in 1905.

Kagoshima was targeted because of its largely expanded naval port as well as its position as a railway terminus.

Kagoshima City is approximately 40 minutes from Kagoshima Airport, and features shopping districts and malls located wide across the city.

Kagoshima has a humid subtropical climate, possessing the highest year average temperature and winter average temperature in mainland Japan.

Kagoshima was one of the host cities of the official 1998 Women's Volleyball World Championship.

Kyogetsu-Tei in Kagoshima commemorating the friendship city relationship with Changsha.