VALUE VILLAGE · DISCOVERY

Discover Japan

Explore shrines, travel, art and industry

Compiled from supplied material, not independently verified item by item. Confirm opening hours, access and accuracy with the operator. Counts are records, not unique places.

KeywordPrefectureCategoryThemeAreaTypeReset filters

13,804 records · 190/576

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Miyakonojo Shimazu Residence

都城市都城

A branch of the Shimazu house, its 1930s mixing of Western and Japanese rooms largely intact.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Buddhist Images of Miyazaki

延岡市県北

The anti-Buddhist campaigns hit hard here, yet Heian images survive in the mountain temples.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Coastal Pine Belt of Hitotsuba

宮崎市宮崎

Pines planted against blown sand form a straight belt along the coast - a drawn line holding the land.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Moai of Nichinan

日南市県南

The only officially sanctioned Moai replicas in the world, made with the permission of Easter Island's elders.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Aya Castle

綾町宮崎

The first castle in Japan rebuilt in real timber rather than concrete, and the precedent for those that followed.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Kagura Costume and Paper Cuts

高千穂町県北

Cut paper hung on four sides of the dancing floor, its patterns diagramming a whole cosmology.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Ayu Weirs of the Gokase River

延岡市県北

Bamboo weirs built across the river each autumn to catch sweetfish, then dismantled - a seasonal structure.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Miyazaki Prefectural Office

宮崎市宮崎

Built in 1932 and still the working prefectural office - the fourth-oldest such building in Japan.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Citrus Terraces of Hyuga

日向市県北

Citrus terraced on stone; the local variety arose here by chance and now shapes the landscape that grows it.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Kirishima Open-Air Museum

湧水町霧島

At 700 metres, where artists chose their own sites; when the fog comes in, the sculptures appear and vanish.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Kagoshima City Museum of Art

鹿児島市鹿児島

This province sent an unusual number of painters into Japanese modern art; the museum collects them systematically.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Reimeikan Museum

鹿児島市鹿児島

On the castle site; because this province destroyed its Buddhist art more thoroughly than any other, it also records what was lost.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Nagashima Museum

鹿児島市鹿児島

On a hill facing the bay and the volcano, holding both Satsuma ware and European modern painting.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Sengan-en

鹿児島市鹿児島

The volcano stands in for the garden's hill and the bay for its pond - borrowed scenery on the largest scale in Japan.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Shoko Shuseikan

鹿児島市鹿児島

Japan's first Western-style factory complex; its stone machine shop survives as the built record of an industrial revolution absorbed.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Satsuma Ware

日置市鹿児島

Begun by abducted Korean potters, and split into white ware for the lord and black for everyone else - class made into pottery.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Miyama Pottery Village

日置市鹿児島

The village where the abducted potters were settled; families that never changed their Korean names still fire kilns here.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Satsuma Cut Glass

鹿児島市鹿児島

Thick coloured glass cut so the edges gradate; the craft died with the domain and was reconstructed in 1985.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Chiran Samurai District

南九州市南薩

Seven of its samurai gardens are designated scenic, their clipped hedges borrowing the mountain behind.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Chiran Peace Museum

南九州市南薩

On the airfield they flew from, holding the letters teenage pilots left - the handwriting itself part of the record.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Izumi Fumoto Samurai District

出水市霧島

A fumoto - the Satsuma domain's own form of samurai settlement - of 150 houses on a grid, the largest in the province.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Iriki Fumoto

薩摩川内市鹿児島

Walls built from rounded river cobbles - a distinctive technique, since nothing in them has a flat face.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Kirishima Shrine

霧島市霧島

Burned repeatedly by eruptions and rebuilt by the Shimazu lords; designated National Treasure in 2022.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Uenohara Jomon Forest

霧島市霧島

A settled village 9,500 years old, which rewrote assumptions about when people in Japan stopped moving.