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福岡県 · Regional selections

Okawa Kumiko Furniture Studio

大川市

Okawa kumiko uses neither nails nor fittings. Hundreds of grooved slips of cedar and cypress interlock into hemp-leaf and cherry patterns.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Hirokawa Indigo-Dyed Kurume Kasuri Salon

広川町

A town of Kurume kasuri weavers. A factory-brand shop that has turned the cloth once used for work trousers into everyday clothing.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Setaka Japanese Candle Workshop

みやま市

Made without any petroleum wax, from sumac berries alone. The maker builds up the wax by hand over a wick of washi and rush.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Yabe-mura Woodcutter's Log Sauna

八女市

A sauna built of logs from Yame cedars over a century old, with water steeped in Yame tea for the loyly.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Joyo Stone Bridges and Yamame Teahouse, Yame

八女市

Stone arch bridges of the Meiji and Taisho eras along the Hoshino River, each block cut by masons from Aso welded tuff.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Mizuta Tenmangu and Koinoki Shrine Heart-Tile Path

筑後市

Koinoki Shrine in the grounds of Mizuta Tenmangu, held to be the only shrine in Japan whose chief deity is the god of love.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Ohana Western House and Shotoen Garden, Yanagawa

柳川市

The former villa of the Tachibana lords of the Yanagawa domain, with a white Western house of 1910 and a pond garden of several hundred black pines.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Yame-Fukushima Craft Chocolate Laboratory

八女市

A chocolate workshop in a converted townhouse in Yame-Fukushima, where you sort and roast the beans yourself and work in Yame gyokuro or matcha.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Tanushimaru Kyoho Winery

久留米市

The birthplace of Kyoho grape growing. A wooden winery on the flank of the Mino range presses only fully ripe table-grade Kyoho.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Yanagawa Warasubo and Mudskipper Dried-Fish Alley

柳川市

Dried fish found only on the Ariake tidal flats: the fanged warasubo eel goby and the mudskipper that leaps across the mud.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Hyugami Gorge Heart-Rock Climbing

八女市

A gorge around the Hyugami dam. Erosion has left a heart shape tens of metres tall on the red-brown cliff.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Chikugo Regional Park Arts Studio

八女市

The Kyushu Geibunkan in a prefectural park by Chikugo-Funagoya Station, designed by Kengo Kuma with a roof folded like origami.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Tsutsui Tokimasa Toy Fireworks Factory

みやま市

One of the few workshops keeping Japanese sparklers alive. Black powder made from Miyazaki pine soot is wrapped in Yame handmade paper.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Bamboo-Shoot Digging and Wild-Vegetable Pizza, Tachibana

八女市

Tachibana is bamboo-shoot country. The shoots are found by the feel underfoot and dug before they break the surface.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Yamazuto Road and Kusano Teahouse

久留米市

An old road along the north foot of the Mino range. Kusano, a post town of the Kurume domain, keeps its stone walls and samurai-house earthen walls.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Original Yanagawa Nabe Loach Restaurant

柳川市

Along the canal at Okinohata. Yanagawa-nabe, born in the Bunsei era, sets split loach with shaved burdock in egg.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Reiganji Temple Rock Formations and Ming-Style Roasted Tea

八女市

Founded in 1423 by Eirin Shuzui on his return from Ming China, who likened the landscape to Mount Lingyan at Suzhou. Yame tea began here.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Hainuzuka Winged-Dog Legend and Barley-Shochu Distillery

筑後市

The place name comes from a legend of a winged dog that followed Hideyoshi's army, for which a mound was raised. A bronze stands by the station.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Former JNR Railway Bridge at Okawa Shokaikyo Bridge

大川市

A lift bridge completed in 1935 on the former national Saga line — the oldest surviving vertical-lift railway bridge in Japan.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Soma-no-Sato Ravine Park Suspension Bridge

八女市

A valley park held in the old-growth forest of Mount Shaka. A 150-metre suspension bridge hangs about 50 metres above the valley floor.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Mino Fault Springwater Soba

久留米市

A soba house at the foot of the Mino hills, using cold bedrock water from the Mino fault, ground coarse on a waterwheel stone so it never heats.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Sesshu Garden and Five-Story Pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera

みやま市

An old Tendai temple. Its abbot's garden, said to have been made by Sesshu after his return from Ming China, is a national scenic site borrowing Mount…

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Hakushu Birthplace Karamachi-no-Hana Rice Crackers

柳川市

A hand-baked cracker shop facing the birthplace of the poet Hakushu Kitahara, selling sweets named after his song The Trifoliate Orange Flower.

福岡県 · Regional selections

Yame-Fukushima Craft Gin Bar

八女市

A bar in a late-Meiji townhouse down a back lane of the preservation district, serving gin and tonic with Yame gyokuro steeped cold.