Tokyo Japan Travel Attractions Destinations Map: Ryugu Shrine & Cape Nagasakibana

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Ryugu Shrine is situated at Cape Nagasakibana (長﨑鼻) on the southern tip of the Satsuma Peninsula inward Kagoshima Prefecture.

 Ryugu Shrine is situated at Cape Nagasakibana  TokyoTouristMap: Ryugu Shrine & Cape Nagasakibana

Ryugu Shrine is a modern structure built to cash inward on the legend of Urashima Taro, who is said to accept come upwardly from this area. The fairy floor of Urashima Taro involves a fisherman saving a minor turtle from beingness terrorized yesteryear kids. In return, the turtle (or inward roughly versions a larger turtle that appears the next day) invites Taro to Ryugu Palace at the bottom of the sea, where he meets Otohime (Princess Toyotama), a beautiful incarnation of the minor turtle Taro had saved.

 Ryugu Shrine is situated at Cape Nagasakibana  TokyoTouristMap: Ryugu Shrine & Cape Nagasakibana


After staying at Ryugu Palace for 3 days, Taro wishes to supply to consider his aging mother. Otohime gives him a box called tamatebako, which she says volition protect him from terms precisely which he is non to open.

When Taro returns to his hamlet no-one recognizes him in addition to his woman bring upwardly is gone. In fact, 300 years accept passed since Taro left. In panic, Taro opens the tamatebako from which white smoke comes out in addition to ages Taro 300 years.

The shrine buildings seen today appointment from 2011. Turtles withal come upwardly to seat their eggs inward the expanse precisely it was rather foreign to consider stuffed ones for sale inward the souvenirs on the route downward to the shrine in addition to the lite menage at the cape.

 Ryugu Shrine is situated at Cape Nagasakibana  TokyoTouristMap: Ryugu Shrine & Cape Nagasakibana


Ryugu Shrine
Yamagawa-okachiyogamizu
Ibusuki
Kagoshima 891-0513
Tel: 0993 22 3252

There are Kagoshima Kotsu buses from Yamagawa Station on the JR Ibusuki-Makurazaki Line. Nearby is the impressive Flower Park garden amongst thousands of multifariousness of flowers in addition to the nearer Nagasakibana Parking Garden (1200 yen; 8am-5pm) amongst tropical plants, parrots in addition to monkeys.

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