Kagoshima

Sakurajima from my hostel

Green Guest House is a cool convenient place, but seemed to be a little late in having beds in the dorms ready seemingly shorthanded. Narrow and vertical with a roof lounge area to sit and watch the street port and the active volcano of Mt Sakurajima, there was a Spanish guest touring some of Japan via train with his mother, an older Japanese guest who said he was a retired professor and I think another Asian cycle tourist. I spoke some Spanish to the Spaniard and his mother to try and put them at ease with their mother tongue and so did the Japanese Professor (who also spoke some German!) but both seemed a little uncomfortable and nervous. They told me they had visited some popular places using a tourists JR Rail Pass.

Statue Garden outside Kagoshima City Museum of Art.

Oculus in Kagoshima Museum of Art.

Kagoshima Museum of Art had a very popular new exhibition on woodblock prints. They also had a surprisingly good collection of western classical and post industrial art. The museum was small by Western, big city standards but when you left, your mind wasn't a jumbled mosaic of art memories. You remembered and retained what you saw. A good example of  where being biggest is not always the best.

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