Category: Oita
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend things we’d genuinely suggest to a friend. Oita has more waterfalls than most visitors ever hear about, and almost none of them show…
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Drive far enough into the Kuju highlands and you’ll find a wide, curtain-like waterfall dropping over a flat rock wall into a river pool below โ…
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Mount Tsurumi (้ถด่ฆๅฒณ) is the mountain that makes Beppu’s skyline: a 1,375m active volcano rising straight up from the hot-spring city below, and one of the…
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Kyushu’s easternmost point isn’t a famous cape with tour buses lined up — it’s a narrow, winding mountain road out to the tip of the Tsurumi…
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Most hot springs in this part of Oita ask you to imagine the volcano underneath them. Tsukahara Onsen just shows it to you. The bathhouse sits…
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Most visitors driving between Yufuin and Beppu never learn this gorge exists. There’s no big roadside sign pointing to it, no tour bus parking lot —…
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. There’s a stretch of road in the Kuju highlands where you crest a hill and suddenly see two white towers rising out of a forested gorge,…
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Most travelers who make it to Oita go for the hot springs of Beppu or Yufuin. Few detour to Usa, a quiet city near the coast…
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Down a side passage off Yunotsubo Yokocho, Yufuin’s main shopping street, Yomoyama (ๅๆนๅฑฑ) serves lunch and dinner the old way: a sunken charcoal hearth built right…
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Tucked into the Yabakei uplands outside Usa, Fukino Falls (็ฆ่ฒด้ใฎๆป) drops about 65 meters through a narrow cleft in the rock, splitting partway down into two…
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This is the first restaurant we’re writing up on Kyushu Wanderer, and it’s a good one to start with: ๅฑฑๆคใซใฌใผใใฉใ ่ใใ (Sansho Curry Udon Kikusuke), a small udon shop tucked into a quiet hillside neighborhood above Yufuin, away from the crowds on Yunotsubo-dลri. We visited on Nov 12, 2022, on a day of brilliant autumn…
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I’d never been on a horse before I booked a beginner lesson at Crane Yufuin (ไน้ฆฌใฏใฉใ ใฏใฌใคใณๆนฏๅธ้ข), a riding club tucked into the hills above Yufuin on Nov 12, 2022, with Mt. Yufu rising right behind the arena. This is a one-on-one beginner course โ no group lessons, no assumed experience โ and that’s exactly…
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Matama Coast doesn’t look like much on a map โ a stretch of tidal flat on the Kunisaki Peninsula’s west side, in Bungotakada City. What brings people here is timing: when the tide goes out, the water left behind carves itself into winding, S-shaped channels across the sand, and the whole thing lights up when…
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend things we’d genuinely suggest to a friend. The Waterfall Almost No One Stops For Oita likes to claim it has two Niagaras. Harajiri…
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend things we’d genuinely suggest to a friend. A Buddha Carved Into the Cliff Itself Most people who’ve heard of Kyushu’s cliff-carved Buddhas know…
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend things we’d genuinely suggest to a friend. Why Kuju Highlands Is More Than a Drive-Through Most visitors treat the Kuju highlands as scenery…
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Everyone who’s been to Nikko has heard of Kegon Falls โ the 97-meter curtain of water that draws crowds by the busload. Almost no one outside Japan has heard of its unofficial Kyushu counterpart: Higashi Shiiya Falls, an 85-meter drop tucked into the Yaba-kei gorge country of Usa City, Oita, that locals call “Kyushu Kegon”…
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This post contains affiliate links. If you book a rental car or tour through one of them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend things we’d genuinely suggest to a friend. Most guides to Kyushu treat Beppu and Aso as two separate stops you connect by the…