Hidden Gems Across Japan
1,610 spots
Udo Jingu Shrine
Udo Jingu is one of Japan's most dramatically sited shrines — built inside a seaside cave carved into volcanic cliffs, w…
Togakushi Udon
Togakushi is Miyazaki City's most beloved udon shop, set in a vast hall that was once a ballroom dance school. Their kam…
Fruits Garden Nagano
Miyazaki produces over 60% of Japan's premium Taiyo no Tamago mangoes. Fruits Garden Nagano is a family-run greengrocer-…
Suisen
Suisen is an intimate yakitori bar that seats only 20 guests and revolves entirely around Miyazaki chicken grilled over…
Gunkei Kakushigura
Tucked inside a narrow alley off Chuo-dori, Gunkei Kakushigura is one of Miyazaki City's most celebrated specialists in…
Ogura Honten
Ogura Honten is the legendary restaurant that invented Chicken Nanban with tartar sauce — one of Japan's most beloved co…
Kirishima Onsen Village
The Kirishima volcanic plateau sits at 600–1,700 meters elevation, where two dozen active and dormant volcanoes have sha…
Cape Toi (Misaki Horses)
Cape Toi (Toi Misaki) is famous for its free-roaming Misaki horses — one of Japan's eight native horse breeds. Around 10…
Takachiho Gorge
Takachiho Gorge is one of Japan's most dramatic natural landscapes, carved by the Gokase River through ancient volcanic…
Nagayu Onsen
Nagayu Onsen (長湯温泉) in Taketa City is one of Japan's few naturally carbonated hot springs (炭酸泉, tansan-sen). The water c…
Kinrinko Lake
Lake Kinrin (金鱗湖, 'Lake of Golden Fish Scales') is a small spring-fed lake at the eastern edge of Yufuin town that produ…
Saiki Fish Market
Saiki City on Oita's southern coast is one of Kyushu's major fishing ports, particularly renowned for tuna and mackerel.…
Kamado Jigoku
Kamado Jigoku (かまど地獄, 'Cooking Pot Hell') is the most hands-on of Beppu's seven hells — in addition to viewing colorful…
Rokugo-manzan Temples
Stand at the base of the Kumano Magaibutsu cliff at 7:30 on a November morning and you'll understand why monks chose thi…
Myoban Onsen
Myoban Onsen is a hot spring district on Beppu's western hillside famous for yunohana (湯の花, 'hot spring flowers') — crys…
Takasakiyama Monkey Park
Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden is home to over 1,000 wild Japanese macaques (snow monkeys) that descend from Mt.…
Harajiri Falls
Harajiri Falls (原尻の滝) is a 120-meter-wide, 20-meter-high waterfall that drops in a perfect curtain across the Ogata Rive…
Hyotan Onsen
Hyotan Onsen (ひょうたん温泉) is a family-operated bathhouse in Kannawa that has won 'Best Onsen in Japan' rankings multiple ti…
Mt. Yufu Hiking
Mt. Yufu (1,584m) dominates Yufuin's skyline with its distinctive twin peaks (東峰 East Peak 1,583m and 西峰 West Peak 1,584…
Illustration — not a photographKannawa Steam Cooking
Jigoku Mushi Kobo (地獄蒸し工房鉄輪) is a public steam cooking facility where visitors cook their own food using 98°C geothermal…
Oka Castle Ruins
Oka Castle (岡城) was built on a 100-meter-tall volcanic plateau in 1594, defended by sheer cliffs on three sides and acce…
Hita
Hita prospered in the Edo period as a direct Tokugawa territory (天領, tenryo) controlling river transport along the Mikum…
Yufuin Floral Village
Yufuin Floral Village is a small commercial development designed to replicate a Cotswolds village — stone-paved lanes, h…
Beppu Ropeway to Mt. Tsurumi
Mt. Tsurumi (1,375m) overlooks Beppu from the west, and the Beppu Ropeway ascends 800 meters in 10 minutes to an observa…
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