Place names・Kagoshima

TenmonkanTenmonkan

Also known as: Tenmonkan-dori

Central Kagoshima's largest downtown shopping and entertainment arcade district takes its name from the Meijikan, also called Tenmonkan, an astronomical observatory and calendar-making institute built in 1779 by lord Shimazu Shigehide. Today it is Kagoshima's largest covered arcade district.

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