Sakurajima (桜島) 桜島
Until 2025 its ferry was the only one in Japan running 24 hours a day.
A complex volcano of 1,117 metres in Kinkō Bay, now administratively part of Kagoshima-shi after the 2004 merger. Until 1914 it was an island separate from the mainland: the Great Taishō Eruption of that year poured out about 1.5 km³ of lava, which filled the strait and joined it to the Ōsumi peninsula, causing 58 deaths. The resident population fell from about 8,500 in 1985 to about 5,600 in 2010, while the activity of the Shōwa crater (resumed in 2006) has made the island one of the most closely monitored volcanoes in Japan.
Kagoshima
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