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鹿児島県は江戸時代は薩摩藩でした。幕末に西郷隆盛や大久保利通など維新の立役者を多く輩出しています。
西南戦争も含め、幕末から明治初期にかけて、多くの史跡が残っています。
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Kagoshima is the southernmost prefecture in Kyushu.
The seat of prefectural government is located in Kagoshima City.
There are a couple historical sites, related to the end of the Edo Age and the beginning of the Meiji Age, on Mt, Shiroyama and in Kajiya-Cho Area.
From the observation platform on Mt. Shiroyama, the view of Mt. Sakurajima across the Kinko Bay is spectacular.
Mt. Sakurajima is an active volcano and the symbol of Kagoshima.
You will also see downtown Kagoshima City.
If you walk from the observation platform on Mt. Shiroyama to the north, you will see caves shown in the below picture.
At the end of the "Seinan War" in September 1877, SAIGO Takamori sustained a siege with his army in these caves. The number of soldiers was only three hundred and fifty, reduced from three thousand when the war broke out in the middle of February, 1877.
On September 24, 1877, SAIGO Takamori went out from the caves and attacked to the government army. The day was the last day for SAIGO Takamori, and the "Seinan War" ended. In total, 13,000 people were killed by the war.
If you further walk down from Mt. Shiroyama to the east, you will see the monument shown in the below picture.
This is the place where SAIGO Takamori died on September 24, 1877.
To the south, the ruins of Kagoshima Castle are located.
If you walk to the south from the ruins of Kagoshima Castle, two statues are located near the central park.
One if the statue of SAIGO Takamori.
There is the other statue of SAIGO Takamori in Ueno Park, Tokyo.
If you take a streetcar from Kagoshima-Chuo Station, you will across the Kotsuki River, which flows through the downtown Kagoshima.
If you walk to the south-east along the Kotsuki River, you will arrive at the area where SAIGO Takamori and OKUBO Toshimichi were born and grew-up.
Kagoshima City now has 600,000 of population. The busy quarter of Kagoshima City is named "Tenmonkan", which means "planetarium". There are department stores and many shops.
SHIMAZU Shigehide (1745-1833), the eighth feudal lord of Satsuma Domain, built a planetarium at this place.
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