2 upcoming voyages call at Kagoshima
- Autumn Tanegashima, Nagasaki & Kagoshima Cruise
Yokohama → Tanegashima → Nagasaki → Kagoshima → Yokohama
- Calls here
- October 8, 2026
- Day
- 5 of 7
- Ashore
- 08:00–17:00 (9 hours)
- Autumn Hosojima & Kagoshima Cruise
Yokohama → Hosojima → Kagoshima → Yokohama
- Calls here
- November 11, 2026
- Day
- 4 of 6
- Ashore
- 08:00–17:00 (9 hours)
Times shown are as scheduled and can change. Weather, sea conditions and port operations may shorten a call or prevent it — always check the latest information from NYK Cruises, and once aboard, from the ship.
About Kagoshima
A city of six hundred thousand people living four kilometres from an active volcano. Sakurajima is active, and ash falls on the city. Ships berth at Marine Port Kagoshima, on reclaimed land south of the centre with nothing walkable around it, so the free shuttle into town is not a convenience here but the way in.
Within reach of the port
Sakurajima
Fifteen minutes on a ferry that runs around the clock, and you are on the volcano. It was an island until 1914, when an eruption poured enough lava into the strait to join it to the mainland — the lava is still there, walkable, at the Arimura lookout. Yunohira is as high as visitors are allowed. The summit is closed and has been for a long time.
Sakurajima Visitor Centre ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it
Sengan-en
The Shimadzu lords' villa, laid out in 1658 to use the volcano and the bay as the garden's borrowed scenery. The same estate holds the machine works where the Shimadzu tried to industrialise before the rest of Japan, and both are part of the Meiji industrial World Heritage listing.
Chiran
An hour south. A preserved street of samurai houses with seven gardens behind their stone walls, unchanged for two and a half centuries, and — a few minutes away — the airfield the army's special attack pilots flew from in 1945. The museum there keeps their last letters. The two sit close together and most visits take in both.
Ibusuki's sand baths
Further south, on a beach where the sand is heated from below by the same geology as the volcano. You put on a yukata, lie down, and are buried to the neck for ten minutes or so. Yukata and towels are provided; it is a bath, so allow for changing.
Shore excursions
NYK Cruises run their own guided excursions at each port, booked by guests themselves through My ASUKA PLANS — the booking window opens before departure and depends on your cabin class. They are conducted in Japanese. Going ashore independently is always an option.
Official sources
- Visit Kagoshima (English) ↗
- Kagoshima Tourism Convention Association ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it