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Katsurahama Beach
A beach of many-coloured pebbles, long famous for moon viewing, with Ryoma's statue facing the sea.
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KochiContemporary ArtNiyodogawa
The Niyodo River
Pools that read as intense blue in the right light - a landscape that photography made known.
Kochi
Coastal Erosion of Tosa Bay
The Kuroshio current reworks this shoreline continually; the beach's shape changes within decades.
Tsuno
Terraces of the Upper Shimanto
Stone terraces in the river's headwaters, the work of centuries turning slope into step.
Shimanto
Farmland of the Konan Plateau
Rice fields on a plateau 200 metres up and close to the sea - an unusual combination of farming conditions.
KochiContemporary ArtSukumo
Sunsets of Sukumo
In winter the sun doubles on the horizon into an hourglass shape - an effect produced purely by air temperature.
SagaContemporary ArtKaratsu
Niji no Matsubara
A million pines planted as a windbreak four centuries ago, now a designated Place of Special Scenic Beauty.
SagaContemporary ArtSaga
Tidal Flats of the Ariake Sea
A six-metre tidal range leaves mud to the horizon, ranked with the geometric poles of the seaweed farms.
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SagaContemporary ArtUreshino
Ureshino Onsen and its Tea Fields
Hot spring and tea district share one valley; the contour-planted fields fill the inn windows.
NagasakiContemporary ArtSasebo
Kujukushima Islands
Two hundred and eight islands scattered across an inland sea - the densest island group in Japan, reading as layered planes.
Unzen
Unzen Hells
Sulphur vents breaking from the ground, and the place where Christians were executed.
NagasakiContemporary ArtShimabara
Springs of Shimabara
Groundwater from the volcano surfaces in the streets and carp swim the channels - disaster and benefit from the same mountain.
KumamotoContemporary ArtAso
Grasslands of Aso
A thousand years of deliberate burning keeps this caldera in grass - a landscape that exists only because people maintain it.
KumamotoContemporary ArtKikuchi
Kikuchi Gorge
Rain that fell on Aso resurfaces here; light through the canopy and the water compose differently each season.
KumamotoContemporary ArtHitoyoshi
The Kuma River
One of Japan's three swiftest rivers; the 2020 flood reshaped its valley and reopened the question of how close to live.
KumamotoContemporary ArtMinamiaso
Terraces of South Aso
Rice fields on a caldera floor, watered by the springs that surface all across it.
Ashikita
Shiranui of the Yatsushiro Sea
On one night of the lunar calendar a mirage lines the sea with fires - recorded since antiquity, and the source of a place name.
Amakusa
Porcelain Stone Quarries of Amakusa
White quarry faces cut into the hills; the porcelain of Arita is made of stone carried away from here.
Uto
Great Camphors of Uto
Thousand-year camphors in shrine precincts; Kyushu keeps an unusual number of these giants.
KumamotoContemporary ArtAso
Aso Caldera Rim
From the rim the whole 25-kilometre caldera falls into one view - scale itself becoming the landscape.
Beppu
Beppu Contemporary Art Festival
An art festival through the alleys and empty shops of a spa town, mixing work into the everyday of a tourist place.
OitaContemporary ArtBeppu
Steam Landscape of Beppu
Steam rises from all over the town - more springs and more water than anywhere in Japan, a city built on its own heat.