Tanejima Red Rice House

If you go about 2km from the Kaminaka area in the direction of the Tanegashima Space Center, you will see a stop-by hot spring facility on your right. The spacious, bright large bathhouse is equipped with such things as an ultrasonic bath, a sleeping bath, and a far-infrared sauna. The hot springs are characterized by a slightly slouchy touch with a colorless and transparent simple hot spring. There is also a hot spring pool and a walking bath facility, which is familiar not only to the town but also to people and tourists outside the town.

The Tanegashima Space Center is the largest rocket launching site in Japan with a total area of approximately 9.7 million square meters. It is said to be the most beautiful rocket launch site in the world because of its beautiful environment surrounded by the sea and trees. Inside the center, there is an exhibition facility called Space Science and Technology Museum, and there is a corner where you can touch the launch video and rocket parts on a large screen. In addition, a guided tour of facilities that take buses to various places in the center also operates three flights a day. Bus tours are free, by pre-booked (0997-26-9244).

An authentic shochu brewer with "Nansen" as its representative stock. Since its inception in the first year of the Showa era (1926), he has been making "Nansen", a savoury and gentle-mouthed shochu that heals the daily fatigue of people living on Tanegashima. "Homan", which is made from ancient rice that is not found outside the town, is used as a raw material and has a solid and heavy taste, and is also a gem of a gem. In addition, there are also authentic potato shochu unique to Tanegashima, such as "Murasaki Roman", which is made from Tanegashima purple sweet potato, and has a light and fruity drinking comfort, and the shochu "Space Daigai Nansen", which traveled in space. If you make an appointment, you can tour the factory, and you can buy shochu at the Kamifuma liquor store adjacent to the factory.