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福岡県 · Regional selections

Kora Taisha Grand Shrine Viewpoint and Bamboo Trail

久留米市

The first shrine of Chikugo province, near the summit of Mount Kora at the west end of the Mino range. Its hall is among the largest gongen-zukuri in …

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Chikugo-Funagoya Camphor Forest Canoe Station

筑後市

About a kilometre of camphor trees along the Yabe River levee, planted by the Kurume domain against floods and now grown huge.

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Aso Pond Stargazing Deck, Hoshino-mura

八女市

A crater lake on a summit at about 400 metres. With no artificial light around, it suits watching the stars.

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Okawa Cat Furniture Gallery

大川市

Furniture for cats, made by Okawa, Japan's leading furniture town, to show what its craftsmen can do — human designs scaled to about 40 per cent.

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Shingeshiro Sluice-Gate Drawbridge Teahouse

柳川市

An outer work of Yanagawa Castle. A wooden drawbridge built to stop enemy boats has been rebuilt, with a tearoom on the site of the sluice keeper's hu…

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Yame-Kurogi Railway-Tunnel Sake Cellar

八女市

A tunnel on the former national Yabe line, closed in 1985. Without electricity it holds 14 degrees and 70 per cent humidity, and is used to age sake.

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Zendoji Great Camphor and Spring-Water Cotton Tofu

久留米市

A Jodo temple founded in 1191. Two camphor trees over 800 years old shade its grounds, and a tofu maker of a century stands before the gate.

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Setaka Daikon Drying Racks

みやま市

From mid December into January, bamboo frames about seven metres high rise in the fields, hung with tens of thousands of daikon tied in pairs.

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Yame-Honmachi Historic Brewery Book Hotel

八女市

A late-Edo sake brewery turned into a few guest rooms, with old cedar vat timbers remade as bookshelves and benches.

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Chikugo Udon Handmade Noodles

筑後市

Chikugo udon is the opposite of Sanuki: softness is the virtue. Thick noodles are boiled slowly to order in a great pot.

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Okawa Sutomoebi Shrimp Stall

大川市

Small shrimp from the brackish water where the Chikugo River meets the Ariake Sea, fried whole in rice oil and salted with Ariake salt.

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Yanagawa Canal Craft-Beer Pub

柳川市

On a canal away from the tourist waterways. A Taisho-era rice store made into a brewery, with beer brewed using Ariake nori.

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Hirouchi-Uehara Rice-Terrace Viewpoint

八女市

About 400 paddies stacked along the contours of the hillside, built up with stone by farmers from the Muromachi into the Edo period.

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Kurume Cycle Sports Center Highland Pump Track

久留米市

A cycling centre in the woods of Mount Kora, with a pump track you accelerate on by body movement alone, without pedalling.

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Yame Traditional Crafts Center Artisan Demonstration Plaza and Giant Lantern

八女市

Yame Buddhist altars and lanterns alongside paper, stone lanterns and bamboo craft. A stone lantern 10.5 metres high stands in the front garden.

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Sakurai Futamigaura Meoto-iwa and Sunset Torii

糸島市

If Ise has the sunrise, this has the sunset. A white torii stands between the wedded rocks 150 metres offshore.

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Mataichi-no-Shio Workshop Tottan

糸島市

A salt works on a cape at the western tip of the Itoshima peninsula, concentrating seawater on bamboo-branch towers and boiling it over a wood fire.

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Keya-no-Oto Cave Cruise

糸島市

A 64-metre basalt pinnacle in the Genkai Sea. Its columnar jointing is the largest in Japan, and it is a national natural monument.

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Totoro Forest Tunnel, Keya-no-Oto Park

糸島市

A park on the landward side of Keya. Evergreen broadleaf trees grown at an angle by the sea wind make a green tunnel.

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Shiraito Falls and Yamame Dining

糸島市

A 24-metre waterfall on the flank of Mount Hagane, more than five degrees cooler than the town even at the height of summer.

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Raizan Sennyoji Daihioin Temple 400-Year-Old Great Maple

糸島市

A Shingon temple said to date from 178, with a 400-year-old maple and a 4.6-metre thousand-armed Kannon.

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Anego-no-Hama Singing-Sand Beach

糸島市

A 1.1-kilometre curve of beach. The quartz grains are so even that the sand sings underfoot.

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Itoshima Oyster Huts

糸島市

From late October to March, dozens of huts line the fishing ports. Oysters grown in a bay fed by minerals from the hills are grilled over charcoal.

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Itoshima Craft Village Studios

糸島市

Land where potters, woodworkers, glassmakers and leatherworkers have settled from across Japan, their studios scattered through evergreen forest.