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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.
St. Francis Xavier Memorial Church, in Xavier Park (tram to Takamibaba stop), was built in 1949 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Jesuit missionary.
Around 1548 St. Francis Xavier began his mission among the pearl fishermen of Goa, before he set sail for Japan.
Portuguese merchants arrived in Kagoshima in 1543, with the missionaries of St. Francis Xavier following close behind.
The small Chapel of St. Francis Xavier is dedicated to the 16th-century patron saint of missionaries, and has on display the elbow of the saint, along with the bones of numerous Japanese and Vietnamese martyrs.