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熊本県 · Shrines & temples

Aoi Aso Romon

人吉市人吉・球磨

The thatched gate is a National Treasure. Yin and yang demon faces are carved beneath the eaves.

熊本県 · Shrines & temples

Daishinji

人吉市人吉・球磨

A temple surviving in the castle town of Hitoyoshi.

熊本県 · Shrines & temples

Ganjoji

人吉市人吉・球磨

The funerary temple of the Sagara family. The graves of successive lords stand in rows.

熊本県 · Shrines & temples

Suwa Jinja (Amakusa)

天草市天草

The tutelary shrine of Amakusa, in a land that keeps the legend of Amakusa Shiro.

熊本県 · Shrines & temples

Ganryu

苓北町天草

A head mound survives here, where the dead of the Shimabara-Amakusa rebellion were mourned without regard to which side they fought on.

熊本県 · Tourism

Hifuri Shinji

阿蘇市阿蘇

Bundles of thatch are set alight and swung about, in celebration of a marriage of the gods.

熊本県 · Tourism

Onda Matsuri

阿蘇市阿蘇

A procession in white robes goes round the fields. An agricultural rite said to have run for two thousand years.

熊本県 · Tourism

Senganzan

上天草市天草

It looks down on the five Amakusa bridges.

熊本県 · Tourism

Goshoura

天草市天草

An island where Cretaceous fossils are found.

熊本県 · Tourism

Yatsushiro Myokensai

八代市八代

UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. The gamedaa, a creature part turtle and part snake, parades through the town.

熊本県 · Tourism

Hitoyoshi-jo

人吉市人吉・球磨

The Sagara ruled here for 700 years. Kuma shochu holds a geographical indication.

熊本県 · Tourism

Kumamoto-jo

熊本市熊本

Stone walls in the musha-gaeshi form. Restoration continues after the 2016 earthquake.

熊本県 · Tourism

Nabeta Yokoana

山鹿市熊本

Tunnel tombs carved with decoration stand in a row.

熊本県 · Tourism

Nakadake

阿蘇市阿蘇

It still gives off steam. The centre of one of the largest calderas in the world.

熊本県 · Tourism

Suizenji Jojuen

熊本市熊本

A stroll garden modelled on the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido. Groundwater from Aso rises here.

熊本県 · Tourism

Tsujunkyo

山都町阿蘇

A stone arch aqueduct built to carry water up to a waterless plateau. A National Treasure.

熊本県 · Tourism

Yachiyoza

山鹿市熊本

A playhouse still in use. The advertisement paintings on the ceiling survive as they were.

熊本県 · Tourism

Yamaga Toro

山鹿市熊本

Dancers balance lanterns made only of washi and paste on their heads. They are dedicated at Omiya Jinja.

熊本県 · Tourism

Aso

阿蘇市阿蘇

Eighteen kilometres east to west, twenty-five north to south. Fifty thousand people live inside one of the largest calderas in the world.

熊本県 · Tourism

Kurokawa Onsen

南小国町阿蘇

One bathing pass lets you visit three baths. The whole town was conceived as a single inn.

熊本県 · Tourism

Amakusa

天草市天草

The Sakitsu village is a World Cultural Heritage site. Dolphin watching is also possible here.

熊本県 · Tourism

Kikuchi Valley

菊池市熊本

Groundwater from Aso runs through it. The water stays at 13 degrees even in summer.

熊本県 · Tourism

Hitoyoshi

人吉市人吉・球磨

The Sagara ruled here for 700 years. Kuma shochu holds a geographical indication.

熊本県 · Tourism

Nabegataki Falls

小国町阿蘇

You can walk behind the falls. The water comes down like a curtain.