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Izumi

Izumi (泉), meaning "spring" or "source of water", is a Japanese given name and surname.

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It is sometimes translated as "fountain" in reference to natural springs and should not be confused with architectural fountains, which are called funsui (噴水) in Japanese. While a unisex name, it is more commonly used by women. It can alternately be written as 泉美, 和泉, 泉水, いずみ or いづみ.

Get in

Getting to Izumi

There is a stop on the Kyushu Shinkansen. The nearest airports are Kagoshima Airport and Aso Kumamoto Airport, both of which take about an hour and a half by public transportation. From Kagoshima Airport, there is a direct airport bus to various parts of the city.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Izumi Crane Habitat

    A National Special Natural Monument known for the wintering of about 10,000 cranes from mid-October to March each year.

  2. 02
    Izumifumoto

    This Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings was used as a defensive base for the Satsuma clan.

  3. 03
    Kashikuri Shrine
  4. 04
    Kannoji Temple

    A temple of the Shokokuji school of the Rinzai sect.

  5. 05
    Kumano Shrine

    It enshrines the three gods of Kumano: Izanami no Mikoto, Yomotsu no Mikoto, and Hayatama no Mikoto.

  6. 06
    Shibi Shrine

    It enshrines the so-called 'Hyuga Sandai' of Ninokigi no Mikoto, Hikohohidemi no Mikoto, and Ubukigusabuki Fugai no Mikoto.

Do

Things to do

Takaono Nakanoichi (高尾野 中の市), The area around the Takaono Station on the Hisatsu Orange Railway. A two-day market held every March at the equinox to celebrate the arrival of spring, with about 300 stalls selling seedlings, flowers, miscellaneous goods, food, and more. It attracts 100,000 people.

How locals move

Getting around Izumi the local way

  • Get inA shuttle bus from Kuranomoto Airport operated by Nankoku Kotsu connects to the ferry bound for Amakusa, and to Izumi Station in front of Dandan Market.

From Wikivoyage: Izumi, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. That article was last edited 2024-05, so a service it names may have changed or stopped.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Yumeto (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.