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熊本県 · Art & museums

Stone Figures of Tamana

玉名市熊本

Stone figures set around burial mounds, carved from Aso welded tuff and found almost only in northern Kyushu.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Great Camphors of Uto

宇土市熊本

Thousand-year camphors in shrine precincts; Kyushu keeps an unusual number of these giants.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Castle Town of Kumamoto

熊本市熊本

Kato Kiyomasa rerouted a river to plan castle and town as one; the layout of water and roads still shows it.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Aso Caldera Rim

阿蘇市阿蘇

From the rim the whole 25-kilometre caldera falls into one view - scale itself becoming the landscape.

大分県 · Art & museums

Oita Prefectural Art Museum

大分市大分

Its ground-floor glass folds fully open so street and gallery become one floor, under a timber lattice copying the province's basketry.

大分県 · Art & museums

Oita City Art Museum

大分市大分

Built around the literati painter Tanomura Chikuden, and the tradition of painting as a scholar's sideline.

大分県 · Art & museums

Usa Jingu

宇佐市国東・宇佐

Head shrine of 40,000 Hachiman shrines, and the perfected form of the hachiman style - two halls joined, three times over.

大分県 · Art & museums

Fukiji

豊後高田市国東・宇佐

The oldest wooden building in Kyushu, and one of few Heian Amida halls left anywhere; traces of its paradise mural survive inside.

大分県 · Art & museums

Maki Odo

豊後高田市国東・宇佐

Nine Heian figures gathered from the peninsula's temples, including one of Japan's largest images of a deity riding a water buffalo.

大分県 · Art & museums

Kumano Cliff Buddhas

豊後高田市国東・宇佐

Among Japan's largest cliff carvings; up a wild flight of stone steps, a fierce deity that appears to be smiling.

大分県 · Art & museums

Usuki Stone Buddhas

臼杵市県南

The only cliff carvings in Japan designated National Treasure - 59 figures cut into soft tuff, which gave them their rounded faces.

大分県 · Art & museums

Niozaza District, Usuki

臼杵市県南

A lane cut through a tuff hill, with temples and samurai houses on both banks - a town carved out of the ground.

大分県 · Art & museums

Beppu Bamboo Craft

別府市大分

Begun as souvenirs for spa visitors and now producing Living National Treasures, built from eight basic weaves.

大分県 · Art & museums

Beppu Contemporary Art Festival

別府市大分

An art festival through the alleys and empty shops of a spa town, mixing work into the everyday of a tourist place.

大分県 · Art & museums

Takegawara Onsen

別府市大分

A public bathhouse under a temple-like gable, still offering the sand bath in which bathers are buried to the neck.

大分県 · Art & museums

Steam Landscape of Beppu

別府市大分

Steam rises from all over the town - more springs and more water than anywhere in Japan, a city built on its own heat.

大分県 · Art & museums

COMICO ART MUSEUM YUFUIN

由布市大分

Admission by reservation only; Kuma set black charred-cedar boxes to borrow the mountain behind them.

大分県 · Art & museums

Yufuin Townscape

由布市大分

Residents chose to keep the fields and refuse development, regulating building heights and signs among themselves.

大分県 · Art & museums

Rokugo Manzan of Kunisaki

国東市国東・宇佐

Temples across a peninsula where gods and Buddhas were never separated, linked by mountain paths walked as training.

大分県 · Art & museums

Futagoji

国東市国東・宇佐

Its stone guardians on the approach are the largest such figures on the peninsula.

大分県 · Art & museums

Kunisaki Pagodas

国東市国東・宇佐

A stone pagoda form found only on this peninsula, its base carved with lotus petals unlike any elsewhere.

大分県 · Art & museums

Showa Town, Bungotakada

豊後高田市国東・宇佐

A shuttered shopping street brought back to its 1950s state, down to the signage and the fittings inside the shops.

大分県 · Art & museums

Oka Castle Ruins

竹田市大分

Only stone walls remain on a cliff-ringed plateau; the composer Rentaro Taki took his most famous song from this ruin.

大分県 · Art & museums

Taki Rentaro Memorial Museum

竹田市大分

The samurai house where the composer spent three boyhood years, still standing in the castle town.