Kagoshima
Worth seeing in and around Kagoshima
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 08St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Kagoshima
Church building in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
2.8 km · Wikipedia - 09
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Kagoshima
- Airports
- Kagoshima (KOJ), 31 km · Miyazaki (KMI), 92 km · Kumamoto (KMJ), 144 km
- Stations
- Kagoshima‐Chūō Station, 2 km · Kagoshima Station, 4.2 km · Kami-Ijūin Station, 9.1 km · Jigenji Station, 6.9 km · Hiroki Station, 4.5 km
- Miyazaki → Kagoshima91 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · ¥1,430–1,950
- Kumamoto → Kagoshima138 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · ¥1,930–2,630
- Nagasaki → Kagoshima146 km · quickest by road, 6h 19m · ¥3,690–5,050
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kagoshima
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kagoshima. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHowever, Japan Rail Pass holders can make a day trip in 8 hours using a combination of Hikari and Sakura/Tsubame services free of charge.
- Get inKagoshima is one of Japan's busiest ferry terminals, with a plethora of ferries connecting mainland Japan to its southern islands.
- Get inOperators include Marix Line and A Line ferry - expect the full journey towards Naha to take around 25 hours, although you can stop halfway through in the Amami Islands.
- Get inFinally for the Tokara Islands, the municipality [http://www.tokara.jp/access/ferry.html] operates 2 weekly ferries plying the route in around 7 hours (¥6000).
- Get aroundThe ferry between volcanic island of Sakurajima and Kagoshima harbor operates frequently and around the clock.
From Wikivoyage: Kagoshima, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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Next door to Kagoshima
- Mishimavillage in Kagoshima district, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan3.3 km
- Kagoshima districtdistrict in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan1.8 km
- Sakurajimadissolved municipality in Kagoshima district, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan9.9 km