Today, we continued on our trip at Kagoshima with a visit to an observatory overlooking Mount Sakurajima. Mount Sakurajima is an active volcano which still spews steam and fumes into the sky at times. There are actually people living at the bottom of the volcano and they travel by ferry (20min) to the mainland for their daily activities too...It is amazing to know that people stay in these places even though it is so dangerous. Perhaps they make alot of money just by farming using the rich volcano black soil.
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Mount Sakurajima - What an amazing feeling to be so close to a
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We continued next to Sengan-en, the garden of a very powerful lord in Kagoshima in the late 1600s. Well, nothing fascinating about the garden (which you must pay to visit) other than you get another view of Mount Sakurajima and get to visit his 10-room house (with complimentary cake and green tea after the house visit, which I thought was the highlight). But, this garden has one of the best steamed sweet potatoes and sweet potato ice cream.
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So sweet and soft..I feel I was like in heaven eating it...
This is a season special and apparently, sweet potatoes grow
very well in volcano soil here.
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| Sweet potato ice cream - plain look but rich taste |
Lunch was Kagoshima ramen. This was good. I had the non-pork version (had enough of disappointments from the Kagoshima black piggies) but the soup and texture of the ramen was already good enough to blow me over. If u like slightly chewy ramen with rich thick soup, this ramen is for u!
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| I am salivating just looking at this picture! |
The day ended with a visit to Kirishima Shrine before we headed to Miyazaki for an overnight stay. Quiet little town and I hope the night could end sooner...boring here.
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