Sakurajima

Sakurajima is a volcano in Kagoshima Bay, southern part of Kyushu, Japan (about 1,100km WSW of Tokyo). The volcano has three peaks, i.e. Kitadake, Nakadake and Minamidake. While historically recorded eruptions took place at Minamidake, the flank and nearby sea floor, and all major eruptions have occurred at fissures on the flanks. The volcano, originally island volcano, was connected to the Osumi Peninsula of the main Kyushu Island by a lava flow in 1914. A series of summit eruptions has been occurring since 1955 at Minamidake crater.