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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.

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.