Kurosaki Gion Yamagasa
17th century as a festival to honour the Kumate-suga Shrine and Fujita-suga Shrines.
The theme of this festival is the welcoming of the first God into the Sasa.
Yamagasa (festival float decorated with bamboo grass).
good health， a plentiful harvest and for the eradication of virulent contagious diseases.
refashioned into the Ningyo Yamagasa (Doll Float) which is decorated with
beautiful dolls.
The colored Ningyo Yamagasa is lit up at night and becomes a vivid spectacle.
and the various colors of the dolls mingle and scatter alternately.
and this produces great excitement among the spectators.
Sumo tournaments in Fukuoka
There are six official professional Sumo tournaments held each year.
Kokusai center from the second Sunday trough the third Sunday in November
for 15 days.
・A 15 minute bus ride from JR Hakata Station
Industrial tour in Kitakyushu
first established the steel work, named Yawata Steel (predecessor of Nippon Steel)
in 1901.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the city has become the base for key industries,
such as steel, chemical, electrical and ceramic industries and played
an important role in the modernization of Japan.
At the present, new industries including the automobile, robot, semiconductor
as well as environmentally-related industries are being promoted which has contributed
to development of advanced industry and technology in Japan.
of these industries.
| Companies and Spots can be visited |
Gunkan-jima Island
known as Gunkan-jima Island, after the Japanese name for battleship.
It was registered as the World Cultural Heritage of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution
site in 2015.
The island was once the site of an underwater mining operation and a town with
several thousand residents.
annual output.
most advanced construction methods of the time.
Waka
Waka is a style of verse usually containing thirty-one syllable in five lines.
It follows a 5-7-5-7-7 syllable pattern.
Waka is probably the oldest poetic style in Japan.
In Heian period ( 784-1185) the exchange of romantic waka between men and women
of noble families became popular.
However, waka was used almost exclusively by the cobles, and was never very popular
among commoners.
In the past there were several styles of waka.
They were all based on a similar syllable pattern, but had different length.
Over time, however, the five-line style known as tanka became dominant
and is the only style still popular today.
Indeed, the term of tanka has now become synonymous with waka.
During Kyokusui-no-en festival held at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, waka are
made and are written it down on a strip of fancy paper.
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Beppu Onsen resort
of volcanos, Mt. Yufu and Mt. Tsurumi.
137,000 kiloliters per day, Beppu is considered a paradise of hot springs
famous for high therapeutic effects.
“Beppu Hatto”, which offer beautiful scenery and various type of water of
different qualities.
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Yabakei
| Yabakei Region is a part of Yaba-Hita-Hikosan Quasi-National Park located in Nakatsu-city, Oita-prefecture. A grand gorge created through a lava plateau of the largest scale in Japan by the flow of Yamakuni-gawa River. Extending 36 km east and west and 32 km north and south, this huge gorge full of strange-shape rocks and stones is a spectacular sight. |
Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum
dedicated to the memory of one of the great writers in modern Japan,
Seicho Matsumoto, who is a native of Kitakyushu.
・A 10 minute walk from JR Kokura Station
・A 5 minute walk from JR Nishi Kokura Station
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Fukuoka Akarenga Cultural Center
office in 1909.
The building is designated as a nationally important cultural property.
The chic British-style building was designed by renowned architect
Kingo Tatsuno.
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Akiyoshidai
approximately 100 meters beneath the Akiyoshidai limestone plateau in the western
part of Yamaguchi Prefecture.
sightseeing course.
15-meter-high Koganebashira, or “Golden Column” and Hyakumenzara, or “One Hundred
Plates”.
degree Celsius.
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