Volcano list
Aso
(caldera 1592 m / 5,223 ft)The huge Aso caldera seen from space: 25 by 18 km in size, it was created by at least 4 huge eruptions between 270 to 90 thousand years ago (image: NASA Earth Observatory)
Aso is no single edifice, but a complex of active vents in the center of a large 24 km wide c... [more info]
Ata caldera
(caldera 924 m / 3031 ft)Fukue
(shield volcanoes 317 m / 1,040 ft)The volcanoes are 900,000 years old and last erupted about 2-3000 years ago. They are considered to be active.
The On-dake ci... [more info]
Hime-shima Volcanic Group
(Lava dome(s) 267 m / 876 ft)Ibusuku
(calderas 922 m / 3,025 ft)It contains the 4.5-km-wide Ikeda-ko caldera, which formed about 4600 years ago, a... [more info]
Iki Volcanic Group
(Pyroclastic cone(s) 213 m / 699 ft)Kirishima
(Shield volcano 1700 m / 5,577 f)Kuju
(stratovolcanoes 1791 m / 5,876 ft)Its historic eruptions recorded in the 17th and 18th century and as recently as 1995 were phreatic or hydrothermal exp... [more info]
Sakurajima
(stratovolcano 1117 m / 3,665 ft)Satsuma Maru-yama
(Lava dome 218 m / 715 ft)Sumiyoshi-ike
(maars 15 m / 49 ft)The maars erupted when sea level was rising about 8,000 years ... [more info]
Tsurumi
(lava domes 1584 m / 5,197 ft)The main features are 2 large domes called Tsurumi (1374 m) and Yufu (1584 m) on the east and west end of the complex.
Only a single eruption, f... [more info]