Satsumasendai City

A 4 km beach divides three lakes.

Nagame-no-hama, Kamikoshiki

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01 ／ Former Masuda House

The Important Cultural Property houseincludes a bath and toilet thought to be Taisho-era.

The Former Masuda House in Iriki Fumoto consists of the main house, built around 1873 (Meiji 6), a stone storehouse of 1918 (Taisho 7), and a bath and toilet building of the Taisho era. The bath and toilet building, 4.8 m by 3.0 m with a gabled roof, is presumed to date from the same period as the storehouse. The grounds hold a stone marker bearing an inscription of Meiji 6.

Bath and toilet: 4.8 m x 3.0 m
Stone storehouse of 1918
2014: Important Cultural Property

02 ／ Shipwright Oteki Family Materials

575 items remain from a shipwright's house,including 58 plans.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs writes that Kumizaki once had a Satsuma domain-run naval port, and that the Oteki family served as its shipwrights. The materials span 145 years from 1657 to 1802 and include 58 plans, licenses, proportion manuals, and tools such as ink pots, planes and mallets. They are held by the Sendai Historical Museum.

575 items
58 plans
1995: Important Cultural Property

03 ／ Toshidon of Koshikijima

On New Year's Eve, a long-nosed godvisits homes with children.

This ritual is handed down on Shimokoshikijima. The city's site writes that on New Year's Eve, Toshidon, wearing a long-nosed face made of palm bark and cycad leaves, visits homes with children aged 3 to 8, praises and admonishes them, and leaves after giving a New Year's rice cake. It became a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property in 1977.

Night of December 31
Homes with children aged 3 to 8
Inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list

Living here

235 minutes at the fastest, Shin-Osaka to Sendai by Shinkansen.

about 90,000 people
Shinkansen stops here

Sendai Station is a Kyushu Shinkansen station in Satsumasendai. In JR West's timetable (October 2026), Sakura 747 leaves Shin-Osaka at 8:53 and arrives at Sendai at 12:48. The Hisatsu Orange Railway also serves Sendai Station.

People living here: 92,403people
Area: 682.92km²
Households: 40,995households
Rent (average for rentals): 31,024yen
Healthcare: 11 hospitals ／ 96 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —30 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Satsumasendai City in Japan31.814°N 130.304°E

to OsakaSanyo-Kyushu Shinkansen235min

Travel times follow JR西日本『JRおでかけネット』区間時刻表東海道･山陽･九州新幹線(東京～博多～鹿児島中央) 下り（line-timetable/1796）の新大阪『発』→川内『発』 (checked 2026-10-07). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities.

Territory of Satsumasendai City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

39.8km

さつま町, 姶良市, いちき串木野市, 阿久根市, 鹿児島市, 日置市, 出水市

Satsumasendai City isthis kind of town.

01Nagame-no-hama on Kamikoshikijima is a sandbar beach 4 km long and 40 to 100 m wide, with three lakes (Namako-ike, Kai-ike and Kuwazaki-ike) along it, and is a national Natural Monument. Its name is said to come from the second domain lord, Shimazu Mitsuhisa, calling it a viewing beach
02Iriki Fumoto is a national Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, and the bath and toilet building of the Former Masuda House is an Important Cultural Property. 575 items of the Kumizaki shipwright Oteki family are held by the Sendai Historical Museum
03The city also has the Sendai Great Tug-of-War, a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, and a national Natural Monument each in the Fujikawa Tenjin plum tree and the Katanoura lily colony on Koshikijima. Toshidon is one of the UNESCO-listed Raiho-shin, masked and costumed visiting deities

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Satsumasendai City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗