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福岡県 · Regional selections

Yanagawa Canal Boat Ride and Sluice-Gate Teahouse

柳川市

A water town threaded by 470 kilometres of canals. Apart from the tourist boats, a hand-poled donko boat slips through the narrow channels between hou…

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Yanagawa Steamed-Eel Charcoal Kitchen

柳川市

Yanagawa's eel is steamed, not grilled. Lightly grilled fillets go over sauced rice with shredded egg, and the whole cedar steamer is steamed through.

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Handmade Yame Lantern Workshop, Yame-Fukushima

八女市

A Yame lantern is wound in a spiral from a single thin strip of bamboo. It has no join, and keeps its shape even folded.

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360-Degree Green Terrace at Yame Central Tea Plantation

八女市

About 70 hectares of hillside where tea rows follow the contours. A wooden terrace at the top looks over the whole of it.

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Jojima Sake-Brewery Tour

久留米市

Sake country ranked with Nada, Fushimi and Saijo. More than a dozen breweries using groundwater from the Chikugo River stand in one small town.

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Suzume-yu Iron Carbonate Spring, Chikugo-Funagoya

筑後市

A cold mineral spring on the Yabe River, high in carbon dioxide and iron, which clouds red-brown on contact with air.

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Kurume Tonkotsu Ramen Street Stall

久留米市

Kurume is the birthplace of Kyushu's cloudy tonkotsu ramen. Some shops keep the "call back" method, never letting the stock go off the fire since the …

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Yame-Kurogi Great Wisteria Teahouse

八女市

The great wisteria at Susanoo Shrine, over 600 years old, on a trellis of some 3,000 square metres, with racemes reaching 1.5 metres.

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Okawa Kumiko Furniture Studio

大川市

Okawa kumiko uses neither nails nor fittings. Hundreds of grooved slips of cedar and cypress interlock into hemp-leaf and cherry patterns.

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Hirokawa Indigo-Dyed Kurume Kasuri Salon

広川町

A town of Kurume kasuri weavers. A factory-brand shop that has turned the cloth once used for work trousers into everyday clothing.

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Setaka Japanese Candle Workshop

みやま市

Made without any petroleum wax, from sumac berries alone. The maker builds up the wax by hand over a wick of washi and rush.

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Yabe-mura Woodcutter's Log Sauna

八女市

A sauna built of logs from Yame cedars over a century old, with water steeped in Yame tea for the loyly.

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Joyo Stone Bridges and Yamame Teahouse, Yame

八女市

Stone arch bridges of the Meiji and Taisho eras along the Hoshino River, each block cut by masons from Aso welded tuff.

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Mizuta Tenmangu and Koinoki Shrine Heart-Tile Path

筑後市

Koinoki Shrine in the grounds of Mizuta Tenmangu, held to be the only shrine in Japan whose chief deity is the god of love.

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Ohana Western House and Shotoen Garden, Yanagawa

柳川市

The former villa of the Tachibana lords of the Yanagawa domain, with a white Western house of 1910 and a pond garden of several hundred black pines.

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Yame-Fukushima Craft Chocolate Laboratory

八女市

A chocolate workshop in a converted townhouse in Yame-Fukushima, where you sort and roast the beans yourself and work in Yame gyokuro or matcha.

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Tanushimaru Kyoho Winery

久留米市

The birthplace of Kyoho grape growing. A wooden winery on the flank of the Mino range presses only fully ripe table-grade Kyoho.

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Yanagawa Warasubo and Mudskipper Dried-Fish Alley

柳川市

Dried fish found only on the Ariake tidal flats: the fanged warasubo eel goby and the mudskipper that leaps across the mud.

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Hyugami Gorge Heart-Rock Climbing

八女市

A gorge around the Hyugami dam. Erosion has left a heart shape tens of metres tall on the red-brown cliff.

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Chikugo Regional Park Arts Studio

八女市

The Kyushu Geibunkan in a prefectural park by Chikugo-Funagoya Station, designed by Kengo Kuma with a roof folded like origami.

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Tsutsui Tokimasa Toy Fireworks Factory

みやま市

One of the few workshops keeping Japanese sparklers alive. Black powder made from Miyazaki pine soot is wrapped in Yame handmade paper.

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Bamboo-Shoot Digging and Wild-Vegetable Pizza, Tachibana

八女市

Tachibana is bamboo-shoot country. The shoots are found by the feel underfoot and dug before they break the surface.

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Yamazuto Road and Kusano Teahouse

久留米市

An old road along the north foot of the Mino range. Kusano, a post town of the Kurume domain, keeps its stone walls and samurai-house earthen walls.

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Original Yanagawa Nabe Loach Restaurant

柳川市

Along the canal at Okinohata. Yanagawa-nabe, born in the Bunsei era, sets split loach with shaved burdock in egg.