OitaShrines & TemplesUsuki
Usuki Sekibutsu
The first stone figures in Japan to be designated National Treasures. Sixty-one of them are carved into the cliff.
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Hoki Sekibutsu
The largest group among the Usuki stone Buddhas. Imposing Nyorai figures fill four niches.
OitaArchitectureUsuki
Niozaza District, Usuki
A lane cut through a tuff hill, with temples and samurai houses on both banks - a town carved out of the ground.
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Breweries of Usuki
A castle town built on brewing; its black-boarded warehouses still line the lanes and still ferment.
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Takeyoi Festival, Usuki
Twenty thousand bamboo lanterns cut and lit along the streets, so the town's plan appears as lines of light.
OitaCulture & HistoryUsuki
Nogami Yaeko Bungaku Kinenkan
A museum in Usuki on the writer Yaeko Nogami, who was born in the town.
OitaNature & Scenery
OitaHot SpringsUsuki
Usuki Castle Ruins
A castle-site park in Usuki, once a castle built on an island in the sea.