{"id":10664,"date":"2019-03-17T07:06:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T23:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2021-04-08T16:04:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T08:04:43","slug":"japan-travel-tokumitsu-shrine-a-historical-landmark-in-kagoshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2019\/03\/17\/japan-travel-tokumitsu-shrine-a-historical-landmark-in-kagoshima\/","title":{"rendered":"JAPAN TRAVEL: Tokumitsu Shrine, A Historical Landmark in Kagoshima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tokumitsu Shrine<\/strong> is a Shinto shrine located in Ibusuki City, Kagoshima Prefecture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10667\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/ryugu-shrine-japan-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The shrine was established to honor sailor Maeda Riemon, who introduced sweet potato (Satsuma-imo) seedlings to Kagoshima back in 1705. These seedlings came from the Ryukyu Islands, a chain of islands located on the boundary of the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10666\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/ryugu-kagoshima-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/ryugu-kagoshima.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/ryugu-kagoshima-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/ryugu-kagoshima-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/03\/ryugu-kagoshima-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These seedlings were very beneficial to Kagoshima in that period, as it helped prevent starvation. Sweet potatoes, or commonly known as Satsuma-imo, are known to have high nutritional value, too. Because of these seedlings, Kagoshima is now currently the largest sweet potato producer in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Tourists may visit the Tokumitsu Shrine for free.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to get here<\/strong><br \/>\nBy foot: It is a 15-minute walk from JR Nishi-Oyama Station.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>By car: It is a 10-minute drive from JR Yamakawa Station.<\/p>\n<p><strong>General Information:<\/strong><br \/>\nAddress: Yamagawa Okagashimizu 391 Ibusuki City, Kagoshima Prefecture 891-0513<br \/>\nOperating Hours: Open 24\/7<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibusuki.or.jp\/tourism\/view\/tokkoshrine\/\">http:\/\/www.ibusuki.or.jp\/tourism\/view\/tokkoshrine\/<br \/>\n<\/a>Contact: +81 993-35-0811<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This first appeared in Philippine Primer Vol. 36 &#8211; March 2019 issue.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokumitsu Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Ibusuki City, Kagoshima Prefecture established to honor sailor Maeda Riemon, who introduced the sweet potato (Satsuma-imo) seedlings to Kagoshima back in 1705.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[562,565,453,57,1918],"tags":[212,257,1106,1119,1922,1999,2000],"class_list":["post-10664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-japan-international","category-feature-of-month","category-historical","category-kagoshima-spot-2019","tag-travel","tag-japan","tag-historical-landmark","tag-japan-travel","tag-kagoshima","tag-tokkou-shrine","tag-tokumitsu-shrine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14880,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions\/14880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}