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大分県 · Shrines & temples

Kuranashihama Jinja

中津市国東・宇佐

An old shrine facing the Suo Sea.

大分県 · Shrines & temples

Kawanaka Fudo

豊後高田市国東・宇佐

A Fudo triad is carved into a great rock standing in the river. It preserves the Shujo Onie rite.

大分県 · Shrines & temples

Choanji

豊後高田市国東・宇佐

It served as the administrative head of the Rokugo Manzan. Its Taroten figure is an Important Cultural Property.

大分県 · Shrines & temples

Maki Odo

豊後高田市国東・宇佐

It houses one of the largest groups of Buddhist figures in the Rokugo Manzan.

大分県 · Shrines & temples

Iwatoji

国東市国東・宇佐

Its Kunisaki pagoda is the oldest dated example in Japan. The Shujo Onie is held here every other year.

大分県 · Shrines & temples

Senpukuji

国東市国東・宇佐

Its Buddha hall and founder's hall are Important Cultural Properties. A Zen temple of Kunisaki.

大分県 · Shrines & temples

Ryugenji

臼杵市県南

A three-storey pagoda standing in the town of Usuki.

大分県 · Shrines & temples

Hoki Sekibutsu

臼杵市県南

The largest group among the Usuki stone Buddhas. Imposing Nyorai figures fill four niches.

大分県 · Shrines & temples

Yokenji

佐伯市県南

The funerary temple of the Mori, lords of the Saiki domain.

大分県 · Shrines & temples

Aizendo

竹田市大分

A vermilion hall cut into the rock face.

大分県 · Shrines & temples

Fukiji Hekiga

豊後高田市国東・宇佐

The Pure Land is painted on the pillars and walls inside. The colour survives even as the surface flakes away.

大分県 · Tourism

Ao no Domon

中津市国東・宇佐

A tunnel the monk Zenkai spent thirty years cutting with a chisel. The subject of Kikuchi Kan's Beyond Love and Hate.

大分県 · Tourism

Beppu Jigoku

別府市大分

First in Japan for both the number of sources and the volume of water. People once could not go near, and called them hells.

大分県 · Tourism

Mameda

日田市大分

It prospered as a territory ruled directly by the shogunate. Its money houses financed much of Kyushu.

大分県 · Tourism

Nagayu Onsen

竹田市大分

One of the strongest carbonated springs in Japan. The custom of drinking the water survives.

大分県 · Tourism

Okajo

竹田市大分

Held to be where Taki Rentaro conceived Moon over the Ruined Castle. Stone walls above a sheer cliff.

大分県 · Tourism

Yabakei

中津市国東・宇佐

A gorge of strange rock formations. One of the three new views of Japan.

大分県 · Tourism

Yufudake

由布市大分

The Fuji of Bungo. Its twin peaks look down on the hot spring town.

大分県 · Tourism

Yufuin Onsen

由布市大分

It decided early on against large-scale development. The morning mist over Lake Kinrin.

大分県 · Tourism

Yabakei

中津市国東・宇佐

A gorge of strange rocks, and the tunnel the monk Zenkai spent thirty years cutting.

大分県 · Tourism

Kunisaki

国東市ほか国東・宇佐

A distinctive group of temples fusing Shinto-Buddhist syncretism with mountain asceticism.

大分県 · Tourism

Kokonoe Yume Bridge

九重町大分

Among the largest pedestrian-only bridges in Japan, at 173 metres high.

大分県 · Tourism

Kitsuki

杵築市国東・宇佐

A sandwich castle town, with samurai quarters on the rises to north and south and the merchant town in the valley between.

大分県 · Tourism

Nagayu Onsen

竹田市大分

日本有数の炭酸泉。飲泉の文化が残る。