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Tobata Gion Yamagasa, in Kitakyushu-city
2024/03/07
Festivals and EventsFloat Festivals including Tobata Gion Yamagasa inscribed on UNESCO Intangible Heritage List in 2016. The festival has a lot of energy and is very dynamic as is the case with festivals such as the Hakata Gion Yamag …
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Kokura Gion Daiko, in Kitakyushu-city
2024/03/07
Festivals and EventsKokura Gion Daiko is a summer festivals in which the main attraction is the playing the drums. In 1958 the event was designated as an intangible folk cultural asset of Fukuoka prefecture. On July 1st the Kokura Gi …
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Nagasaki Lantern Festival
2024/03/07
Festivals and EventsAn annual festival in Nagasaki held on Chinese new year. The festival has been started to celebrate a new year by Chinese who lived in Nagasaki, and it became the Nagasaki’s festival since 1994. More than 10 thou …
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Sengan-en, in Kagoshima
2024/03/06
Japanese gardenSengan-en is the most famous garden in Kagoshima-ken, made by Shimazu lord in the 19th century at the beautiful bay side Kinko bay. The garden contains many historic artifact that tell of its long history.
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Kokua Castle Garden, in Kitakyushu-city
2024/03/06
Japanese gardenKokua Castle Garden made at the former site of Shitayashiki (lord’s guest house) located next to Kokura Castle. This garden consists of a Japanese garden and a daimyo yashiki (a lord’s house), a building of the S …
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Suizenji-koen park, in Kumamoto
2024/03/06
Japanese garden, Latest informationImitated the beautiful scenery of Japan. It is a refined circular garden of Momoyama period style and represents the 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road including Mt. Fuji. The fresh springs in the garden release clea …
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Kitakyushu Manga Museum, in Kitakyushu
2024/03/06
MuseumsKitakyushu Manga Museum is located next to JR Kokura station. The museum is located on the 6th floor of Aru Aru City, a multi-floored shopping mall devoted to products and services for anime, manga, idol culture, …
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Kawachi Wisteria Garden, in Kitakyushu-city
2024/03/06
Flower gardenKawachi Wisteria Garden is a private garden at the Mountain foot of Sarakura in Kitakyushu-city and famous for its spectacularly presented, large numbers of wisteria flowers. The garden is opened to the public …
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Kyushu National Museum, in Dazaifu
2024/03/05
Museums, Latest informationKyushu National Museum was opened in 2005 in Dazaifu-city next to Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, as Japan’s fourth national museum after Tokyo, Kyoto and Nara. Dazaifu is the place where played important role as an admi …
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Nagayu Onsen
2024/03/04
Onsen resortOne of the most popular hot spring for foreign tourists, located at the foot of Kuju mountain range in Oita-prefecture. The hot spring is known as one of the world’s top carbonate spring.