Kagoshima

This is my hometown, Kagoshima. It is in South part of Japan.
This is charcoal ice cream!! You think it is gross, right? But guess what! It is very delicious :)
It is also good for health :) It tastes almost like yogurt.

There are a lot of palm tree! Because it is semi-tropical weather :)
And this is the preserved town where Samurai lived. There are many historical houses, and people actually live here. They are offsprings of Samurai soldiers.
But, we can go into actual people's house and look around.


There are an active volcano and many hot springs in my home town! Also, there is a museum that shows about Kamikaze soldiers, who joined in WWII, put only one way of gas in the plane and took off to attack. They true feeling of sadness, thanks for family, and how much they love their family and how much they miss them is written in their letters. ( Because basically, they are about to die "for country" ) These are shown in the museum. I've been there, but it is extremely sad place. Those people who wrote those letters are in their teens.

Because country did not allow them to talk back, they could not say 'no' to the country to join the war, flying to attack with only one-way fuels. They publicly declared that they were glad that they were nominated as soldier and they are proud that they could fight for country. However, in those letter to families, their true feelings that they don't wanna fight, they wanna stay at home with their families, and they miss their family so much. It is very very sad. And makes me feel that how terrible the war is. Even though I have not experience the war, I could feel the grief atmosphere of war period in the museum. So, though it is very sad and could be depressive, I recommend you to visit here. And other places are so much fun and relaxing to visit ;)

Please visit my home town Kagoshima sometime;)