Tag: Usa


  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Fukino Falls: The Quieter of Usa’s Three Waterfalls

    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 (็ฆ่ฒด้‡Žใฎๆป) drops about 65 meters through a narrow cleft in the rock, splitting partway down into two…

  • Higashi Shiiya Falls: Kyushu’s Answer to Nikko’s Kegon Falls

    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”…