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Sakurajima
The volcano that stopped being an island in 1914, and still dusts the city with ash.
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The January 1914 eruption poured out enough lava to weld the island to the Ōsumi peninsula; thirty villages vanished beneath the flow and a torii at Kurokami shrine remains buried to the top of its posts. Since 1955 the volcano has produced near-daily explosions, several hundred a year, tracked by a permanent observatory. The ash fertilises soils that yield the world’s largest radishes, sakurajima daikon of up to thirty kilos, and Japan’s smallest tangerines.