The literal meaning of chinoike is blood-coloured pond. The clay is steaming hot point that the steam is red. Japan’s oldest natural Jigoku as written about in the Bungo Topography described as Akayusen, a reddish hot sp …

Chinoike-Jigoku…の続きを読む

Oniishibozu-jigoku is one of the recommended site along with Umi-jigoku. Oniishi shaving Head Hell, large and small bubble of hot gray mud that boiling up here look like the shaven head of monks.          …

Oniishi Bouzu-Jigoku…の続きを読む

  The museum is a Christian Pilgrimage site shows History of Christianity in Amakusa and Shimabara Rebellion which was a peasant uprising agaist bakufu’s persecution of Christians under the leadership of Amakusa Shi …

Amakusa Shiro Memorial Hall…の続きを読む

  Tomioka Castle was built in 1602, one year after Terasawa Shimanokami hirotaka came to Amakusa. Although Amakusa ruled by proxy for Terasawa from Tomioka Castle, he revelled with his army in the Shimabara Rebellio …

Tomioka Castle Ruins…の続きを読む

  Sakitshu is a Christian Pilgrimage site and has been registered on UNESCE World Heritage as Hidden Christian site Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region. A Gothic-looking church is located on a cove of a fi …

Sakitsu Village…の続きを読む

  The Church is a Pilgrimage site and is the oldest Catholic Church in Amakusa and was one of the first churches built right after the ban on Christianity was lifted. The Romanesque-style architecture and the chalky …

Oe Cathedral Amakusa…の続きを読む

  Amakusa, is located in a southern part of Kumamoto, and consists of Shimo-jima,Kami-jima and many other islands varied in size.   Connecting the islands of Amakusa with the inland of Kumamoto via the Uto Peni …

Amakusa cruise…の続きを読む

  Amakusa Gokyo or Amakusa five bridges, is a general term for five bridges which connects  from Misumi at the Udo peninsula to the Oyano island, the Nagaura island, Ikejima, Maejima, and Amakusa Kamishima, was buil …

Amakusa Gokyo…の続きを読む

  Those Samurai Houses were built about 250 years ago. Their gardens are beautiful designed, with Mt. Hahaga-dake as the background.     Other natural elements are also incorporated, making the whole area …

Chiran Samurai Residence…の続きを読む

  This museum exhibits precious materials such as pictures, letters, wills, articles and mementos of the 1,036 Kamikaze pilots based in Chiran who participated in the Battle for Okinawa towards the end of World War …

Chiran Peace Museum for the Kamikaze Pil…の続きを読む