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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.
OitaArchitectureBeppu
Takegawara Onsen
A public bathhouse under a temple-like gable, still offering the sand bath in which bathers are buried to the neck.
OitaArchitectureYufu
Yufuin Townscape
Residents chose to keep the fields and refuse development, regulating building heights and signs among themselves.
OitaArchitectureBungotakada
Showa Town, Bungotakada
A shuttered shopping street brought back to its 1950s state, down to the signage and the fittings inside the shops.
OitaArchitectureNakatsu
Fukuzawa Yukichi's House
The low-ranking samurai house where Fukuzawa grew up, including the storehouse loft he converted himself to study in.
OitaArchitectureHita
Kangien Academy Site
A private academy that stripped away rank, age and prior schooling at the door; five thousand students came from all Japan.
OitaArchitectureSaiki
Samurai Street of Saiki
A samurai quarter of continuous earthen walls, closed at one end by a surviving turret gate.
OitaArchitectureTaketa
Taketa Castle Town
A town in a tuff-walled basin, where tunnels bored through the cliffs serve as ordinary streets.
Usuki
Breweries of Usuki
A castle town built on brewing; its black-boarded warehouses still line the lanes and still ferment.
OitaArchitectureNakatsu
Nakatsu Castle
A sea-water castle where two lords' stonework meets in one wall - and the difference in how they laid it is visible.
Kunisaki
Villages of Kunisaki
A dry peninsula riddled with reservoirs, its stone-walled homesteads set between them.
OitaArchitectureOita
Funai and its Christian Past
The town of a Christian daimyo, with a church and hospital - among the first Japanese cities to take in European culture.
Beppu
Communal Bathhouses of Oita
Over a hundred bathhouses in Beppu are run by neighbourhood associations - plain buildings whose form follows who manages them.
MiyazakiArchitectureTakachiho
Amano Iwato Shrine
Worship is directed not at a hall but at a cave across the river; nearby, stones piled by visitors have accumulated into a landscape.
MiyazakiArchitectureNichinan
Udo Shrine
A vermilion shrine standing inside a sea cave, under a rock ceiling with the Pacific breaking outside.
MiyazakiArchitectureNichinan
Obi Castle Town
A castle town of cedar fences and stone walls, the first in Kyushu designated a preservation district.
MiyazakiArchitecture
MiyazakiArchitectureHyuga
Mimitsu District
A port trading with Osaka, and so lined with Kyoto-style townhouses rarely seen elsewhere in Kyushu.
MiyazakiArchitectureShiiba
Shiiba Village
Where slash-and-burn farming survived longest in Japan; its long houses string every room in a single line along the slope.
MiyazakiArchitectureShiiba
Tsurutomi House
Rooms strung in one line, a plan some read as descended from Heian palace layout, preserved deep in the mountains.
MiyazakiArchitectureNobeoka
Naito Family Garden, Nobeoka
The Nobeoka lords' garden, its pond fed from the town's water and framed by the hills behind.
Hinokage
Stone Terraces of Hinokage
Houses and fields alike stand on stacked stone; the masonry is the condition of the village's existence.