Hifuri Shinji
Bundles of thatch are set alight and swung about, in celebration of a marriage of the gods.
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Bundles of thatch are set alight and swung about, in celebration of a marriage of the gods.
A procession in white robes goes round the fields. An agricultural rite said to have run for two thousand years.
Groundwater from Aso runs through it. The water stays at 13 degrees even in summer.
A complex opened at Sakuramachi in Kumamoto City in 2019, with a bus terminal attached.
A port on an artificial island on the Ariake Sea, with ferries to Shimabara.
A 133-metre hill north of Kumamoto Station, with a Buddhist stupa at the top and a known night view.
Grassland at about 1,100 metres on Aso, where horses graze with the smoking cone of Nakadake ahead.
A spring in Minamiaso, among Japan's hundred fine waters, yielding 60 tonnes a minute.
A hot-spring district in Oguni at the foot of Mount Waita, with geothermal steam rising all around.
A hot spring at 760 metres in Oguni, with four inns and private baths.
A spring in Ubuyama, among Japan's hundred fine waters, ringed by trees over 200 years old.
One of the five peaks of Aso, 1,321 metres, with a maintained path that beginners can climb.
A lookout over Kusasenrigahama, taking in the grassland and its pools.
An island about four kilometres around off Kamiamakusa, where rebel forces held a strategy meeting during the Shimabara-Amakusa uprising.
A hot spring in Amakusa, with a legend that an egret healed its wounds here some 700 years ago.