Kagoshima Prefecture

Kagoshima is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture on the south western tip of the island of Kyushu in Japan, and the biggest metropolis within the prefecture by using a few margin. It has been nicknamed the "Naples of the Eastern world" for its bay place Aira Caldera, hot climate, and emblematic stratovolcano, Sakurajima. The city was officially founded on April 1, 1889. Kagoshima Prefecture also known as the Satsuma Domain changed into the middle of the territory of the Shimazu extended family for many centuries.

It changed into a busy political and commercial port town during the medieval length and into the Edo length 1603–1868 when it formally have become the capital of the Shimazu's fief, the Satsuma Domain. The reputable logo is a amendment of the Shimazu's kamon designed to resemble the individual Satsuma remained one of the most effective and wealthiest domain names within the united states of america at some stage in the duration, and though worldwide change was banned for lots of this period, the metropolis remained quite lively and rich.

It served now not most effective as the political middle for Satsuma, but also for the semi-unbiased vassal country of Ryukyu; Ryukyuan traders and emissaries frequented the city, and a special Ryukyuan embassy building turned into set up to assist administer family members between the 2 polities and to residence site visitors and emissaries. Kagoshima become additionally a great middle of Christian hobby in Japan previous to the imposition of bans towards that faith in the past due 16th and early 17th centuries.