Kawanabe, Kagoshima

Each year of graduates plants a tree and plaque to commemorate their time at Kawanabe.

It got gold prizes 13 times continuously in Kagoshima prefectural contest.

In 2011, four percussion players got silver prize in an ensemble contest in Kagoshima.

Also in Kawanabe, the bricks used to make the sidewalk are made from the ash of burned garbage.

Sweet potatoes are famously grown in and around Kawanabe, as in the rest of the Satsuma Peninsula in Kagoshima.

There is a shop on Hirayama road in Kawanabe that makes sweet potato ice cream.

In the middle of the Kamakura period, family Buddhist altars became popular.

The main road in Kawanabe is closed to cars on festival days.