Bamboo Products

Kagoshima, with the greatest area of bamboo forests in Japan, has had a long history with bamboo. Moso bamboo spread throughout the nation from Kagoshima, and it has been used here since ancient times for making everyday implements such as boxes, baskets, and fishing tools.

This tradition is kept alive in a number of locations around the prefecture where bamboo is still used to make baskets, flower pots, rice wine caskets, pot hangers, chopsticks, screens, etc.