Example sentences for: kagoshima

How can you use “kagoshima” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A couple of miles or so north of Kagoshima Station are the lovely Iso Gardens, also landscaped on a hill, where the lord of Satsuma had his villa.

  • Chiran (80 minutes inland by bus from Kagoshima) is a peaceful, secluded 18th-century samurai village.

  • It was from Kagoshima that the last desperate sorties of World War II were begun to resist an imminent US invasion, including the kamikaze raids on American warships.

  • In response, the Americans, British, Dutch, and French combined forces to smash the Choshu fortified positions, and Britain retaliated for the assassination by practically leveling the town of Kagoshima in southern Kyushu.

  • In 1543 Portuguese explorers reached Tanegashima Island, off southern Kyushu, followed over the next decade by Portuguese traders and Jesuit missionaries, headed by St Francis Xavier, who landed at Kagoshima in 1549.


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