Sakurajima
Borrowed into the view.
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A Japanese garden attached to a former residence of the Shimazu clan, lords of Satsuma, built by Shimazu Mitsuhisa in 1658 on the shore of Kagoshima Bay. It is a Place of Scenic Beauty and, with the neighbouring Shōko Shūseikan museum, part of the World Heritage «Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution». The garden borrows the view of Sakurajima across the bay as part of its design, so the volcano seems to stand within it. In 1736 Shimazu Yoshitaka added a winding stream and moso bamboo brought from China through the Ryukyu Kingdom. The grounds hold the Iso residence, where the family received distinguished visitors from Japan and abroad in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a pond and stone gardens, small shrines and a trail up the hill behind. Tickets are about 1,600 yen, including the Shōko Shūseikan, per visitor guides. City sightseeing buses run from Kagoshima-Chūō Station.
Borrowed into the view.
The Shimazu home.
A classic garden.
Yoshino-chō, north Kagoshima, on the bay
It borrows the view of Sakurajima across the bay into its design, and with the Shōko Shūseikan it is part of a World Heritage Site.