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Halfway back along Kyushu’s west coast, Kumamoto is an old castle town that was of considerable importance to the Tokugawa shoguns as a counterweight to the presence of the annoyingly independent Shimazu clan down in Kagoshima.
Historically, Ito was home for five years to William Adams, the Englishman shipwrecked on the shores of Kyushu in the early 17th century who became an advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
South of Miyazaki, the little island of Aoshima is connected to Kyushu by a footbridge and surrounded by strange, wave-like rocks believed to be between 15 million and 30 million years old.
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.