Higashi-Sakurajima-Cho

In the forefront of the brown building, the Higashi Sakurajima Government Office, a new fence marks where a cliff collapsed due to torrential rains several years ago.

 

The Higashi Sakurajima Junior High School is my alma mater, just beyond the Government Office building, that houses the Higashi Sakurajima Branch Office and the Higashi Sakurajima Community Center. The only club activity was badminton. However, with only six members, we were able to use three badminton courts in the gymnasium. I think this is one of the advantages of going to a small school. Beyond the gymnasium is a swimming pool. All the schools in Sakurajima have roofs over their swimming pools. It is more like a building than a pool. The reason for this goes without saying: because the ash is terrible. The skylights are good because the water temperature is moderate, and we don't get sunburned.

 

Later, from the road, you can see the expanse of the community of Higashi Sakurajima. Are there more houses than you expected? Until Higashi Sakurajima Village was merged into Kagoshima City in 1950, it was called Yuno.

 

The monument on the left side of the road commemorates the 100th anniversary of Sakurajima’s Taisho Great Eruption and was built in recent years. Well, when it says 100 years later, it means 2014. I must have put something in a time capsule of that monument, but I don’t remember what I put. A short distance ahead, you can see a ground called Yuno-Mochiki Port Green Park below. It was said that the pattern where the pavilion is located resembles a Pokemon ball.