Sengan-en
Sengan-en Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Nippō Main Line. It is named after the nearby Sengan-en garden, which is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
- Also known as: “Sengan-en Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sengan-En and Museum Shoko Shuseikan Main Building.
Sengan-En
Museum
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Sengan-en is a Japanese garden attached to a former Shimazu clan residence in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Designated a Place of Scenic Beauty, together with the adjacent Shōko Shūseikan it forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining. Sengan-En is situated 410 metres northeast of Sengan-en.
Museum Shoko Shuseikan Main Building
Building
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The Shōko Shūseikan is the site of a pre-modern industrial complex created in the Bakumatsu period by Satsuma Domain in the city of Kagoshima Japan. It was designed a National Historic Site, with the designation expanded in 2013.
Tsurugane Shrine
Shinto shrine
Photo: nnn, CC BY 2.1 jp.
Tsurugane Shrine is a Shinto shrine, which is situated 180 metres north of Sengan-en.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inaricho and Shimizucho.
Sengan-en
- Categories: railway station above ground, station, and transportation
- Location: Japan, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.61662° or 31° 36′ 60″ northLongitude
130.57663° or 130° 34′ 36″ eastInception
March 15th, 2025Operator
Kyushu Railway CompanyOpen location code
8Q3GJH8G+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 12103645338OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationWikidata ID
Q49854035
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Wu Chinese—“Sengan-en” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “仙巖園站”
- French: “gare de Sengan-en”
- French: “Sengan-en”
- Japanese: “仙巌園”
- Japanese: “仙巌園駅”
- Japanese: “磯新駅”
- Korean: “센간엔”
- Korean: “센간엔역”
- Wu Chinese: “仙岩园站”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include 尚古集成館 and Entrance to Sengan-En gardens.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sengan-en”. Photo: Sanjo, CC BY-SA 4.0.