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FIRST VISIT GUIDE
Learn how shrines and temples differ, then look at the photos
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OitaShrines & TemplesUsuki
Hoki Sekibutsu
The largest group among the Usuki stone Buddhas. Imposing Nyorai figures fill four niches.
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Fukiji Hekiga
The Pure Land is painted on the pillars and walls inside. The colour survives even as the surface flakes away.
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Takachiho Jinja
Held to be the place of the descent of the heavenly grandson. From November to February each year the night kagura is performed here, village by village, in private houses and kagura lodgings. From evening until the next morning, thirty-three dances are dedicated over a single night. An Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, it continues not as a spectacle but as something the village does for itself.
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Aoshima Jinja
It stands on an island ringed by the wave-cut rock shelves called the devil's washboard, and is covered in subtropical plants.
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Amanoiwato Jinja
Its deity is the rock cave in which Amaterasu is said to have shut herself away. The nearby Amanoyasukawara is the cave where the gods are said to have gathered to confer.
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Miyazaki Jingu
It enshrines Emperor Jimmu. Known for the great torii on its approach and a white wisteria over 600 years old.
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Tsuno Jinja
First shrine of Hyuga Province. Emperor Jimmu is said to have prayed here before his eastern campaign.
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Takachiho-kyo
A gorge of columnar jointing, formed when Aso pyroclastic flow set hard and the river cut through it. The Manai Falls drop into it.
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Amanoyasukawara
The cave where the gods are said to have gathered to confer. Countless stones stacked by worshippers stand in rows.
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Meoto Sugi
Two cedars joined at the root. Walk round them three times hand in hand, they say, and the bond is made.
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Tsuma Jinja
It enshrines Konohanasakuya-hime, and carries a tradition of being the birthplace of Japanese sake.
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Tsumakirishima Jinja
Stone steps said to have been built by an ogre in one night. A sacred stone, cut clean through, remains here.
MiyazakiShrines & TemplesTakaharu
Sano Jinja
Held to be the birthplace of Emperor Jimmu. Its cedar-lined approach runs a long way.
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Imayama Hachimangu
The tutelary shrine of Nobeoka, standing on a hill above the town.
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Amanoiwato Higashi
Held to be where Amaterasu lived after she came out of the rock cave.