Kagoshima, Japan｜Senganen Garden & Shangko Collection Hall & Imperial Palace (Shimadzu Family Residence)｜Entertainment Ticket

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• Xianyan Garden

Built in 1658 by Mitsuhisa, the 19th generation of the Shimazu family, this garden overlooks Sakurajima and is one of the representative scenery of Kagoshima Prefecture. In the 15,000-square-meter park, filled with colorful flowers of all seasons, there are the Shokoshukan and the Imperial Palace that display relevant materials and cultural heritage of the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain. As the place that led Japan's modernization, this area was listed as a World Cultural Heritage in 2015.

• Shanggu Collection Hall
  

Saibin, the 28th generation of the Shimadzu family, believed that Japan must become a strong and wealthy country that is not inferior to foreign countries, so he built a modern factory complex called "Shuikan" in the seaside area near the palace and gardens. He believed that Japan needed to modernize if it wanted to be independent, so he focused on projects directly related to military strength such as iron smelting and shipbuilding, and actively introduced Western technology. The name of the factory group including reverberatory furnaces, smelting furnaces, glass factories, textile factories, steam locomotive factories, etc. is "Shuikan". The project as a whole is called the "Integrated Pavilion Project". Japan's oldest existing "Western-style factory" in the factory complex has become the current "Shangko Shushuikan Main Building" and functions as a valuable museum that can understand the changes in Japan's modernization.

• Imperial Palace

The Shimazu clan master absorbed Western culture from Kagoshima, and the palace where he lived served as a guest house for domestic and foreign guests from the late Edo period to after the Meiji Restoration. This is a precious building. Its architecture, design, and furniture as a samurai house allow you to feel the atmosphere and life of the feudal lords in each period.