Tag: shrines


  • Mount Tsurumi: Beppu’s Active Volcano, Ten Minutes by Ropeway

    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 (้ถด่ฆ‹ๅฒณ) 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…

  • Usa Jingu: The Head Shrine of Japan’s 44,000 Hachiman Shrines

    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…

  • Amano Yasukawara: Inside the Cave Where Japan’s Gods Once Met

    Most people who come to this part of Miyazaki are here for Takachiho Gorge โ€” the cliffs, the rowboats, the waterfall everyone photographs from the same spot. Amano Iwato Shrine and Amano Yasukawara get a fraction of that traffic, even though this is the story that makes Takachiho sacred ground in the first place. We…