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宮崎県 · Shrines & temples

Shiromi Jinja

西都市宮崎

The Shiromi kagura is an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. It keeps the old form of offering a boar's head.

宮崎県 · Shrines & temples

Mochio Jinja

都城市都城

A great rock is its deity. Known for the avenue of cherry trees on its approach.

宮崎県 · Shrines & temples

Kirishima Mine Jinja

小林市都城

One of the six Kirishima Gongen shrines. It stands at the northern foot of Takachihonomine.

宮崎県 · Tourism

Haniwaen

宮崎市宮崎

Figures copied from the haniwa of Saitobaru stand among the trees.

宮崎県 · Tourism

Kunimigaoka

高千穂町県北

On autumn mornings a sea of cloud fills the basin. A grandson of Emperor Jimmu is said to have surveyed the land from here.

宮崎県 · Tourism

Moai

日南市県南

The only replicas in the world that the elders of Easter Island have permitted.

宮崎県 · Tourism

Obi Jokamachi

日南市県南

The little Kyoto of Kyushu. Its domain school, Shintokudo, survives.

宮崎県 · Tourism

Saitobaru Kofun

西都市宮崎

More than 300 burial mounds spread across the plateau. One of the largest such groups in Japan.

宮崎県 · Tourism

Shiiba

椎葉村県北

One of the three great hidden regions of Japan. Slash-and-burn farming and Taira clan legends survive here.

宮崎県 · Tourism

Yokagura

高千穂町県北

Thirty-three dances performed through the night. They are still dedicated in the houses of the village.

宮崎県 · Tourism

Aoshima

宮崎市宮崎

An island ringed by wave-cut rock shelves, thick with subtropical plants.

宮崎県 · Tourism

Udo Jingu

日南市県南

You go down the cliff to the halls inside the cave, and throw the unadama balls.

宮崎県 · Tourism

Nichinan Coast

日南市ほか県南

An avenue of phoenix palms runs along the coast. It was once the mecca of the honeymoon.

宮崎県 · Tourism

Ebino Highland

えびの市都城

The crater lakes of the Kirishima range. The starting point for climbing Karakunidake.

宮崎県 · Tourism

Aya Suspension Bridge

綾町宮崎

It spans a forest of broadleaf evergreens, a UNESCO Eco Park.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum

宮崎市宮崎

Home of Ei-Q, who made images by laying objects straight onto photographic paper; this is the fullest collection of his work.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Miyazaki Prefectural Museum

宮崎市宮崎

With four relocated farmhouses in its grounds, and a substantial holding on the province's kagura masks and robes.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Haniwa Garden, Heiwadai Park

宮崎市宮崎

Four hundred copies of excavated haniwa set out among trees - placed outdoors, closer to how they originally stood.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Saitobaru Burial Mounds

西都市宮崎

Three hundred and nineteen mounds across a plateau, kept as grassland so their shapes stay readable as terrain.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Saitobaru Archaeological Museum

西都市宮崎

Buried underground so as not to disturb the mounds, and unusual in letting visitors handle some of the finds.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Takachiho Night Kagura

高千穂町県北

Thirty-three dances performed through the night in ordinary houses, in masks repaired and reused for generations.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Amano Iwato Shrine

高千穂町県北

Worship is directed not at a hall but at a cave across the river; nearby, stones piled by visitors have accumulated into a landscape.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Takachiho Gorge

高千穂町県北

Columnar joints from cooling Aso ash form seven kilometres of vertical wall, best seen looking up from a boat.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Udo Shrine

日南市県南

A vermilion shrine standing inside a sea cave, under a rock ceiling with the Pacific breaking outside.