Travel Japan Info - Sakurajima Japan

Travel Japan Info - Sakurajima Japan

Sakurajima, once an island off Kagoshima, is now a part of the mainland after lava joined the island to the mainland with a narrow isthmus, and is an active volcano with a large caldera. There have been 2 major eruptions in 1914 and again in 1947. On my first trip to Kyushu, I caught the ferry from Kagoshima to Sakurajima. The crater reminded me of the volcanoes in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii. Much of the sulfur banks and terrain resembled those in Hawaii.  I imagine that the earthquake in Japan also resemble those in Hawaii.


A truly amazing sight was a radish almost the size of an exercise ball. The white radish had an interior flesh that was pinkish. A pickled version of the radish was available for sale at one of the roadside stands on the island.  It must be that ashen volcanic soil and Japan weather that makes the radishes grow that large.

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