OitaArchitectureBungotakada
Showa Town, Bungotakada
A shuttered shopping street brought back to its 1950s state, down to the signage and the fittings inside the shops.
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OitaArchitecture
OitaArchitectureTaketa
Oka Castle Ruins
Only stone walls remain on a cliff-ringed plateau; the composer Rentaro Taki took his most famous song from this ruin.
OitaMuseumsTaketa
Taki Rentaro Memorial Museum
The samurai house where the composer spent three boyhood years, still standing in the castle town.
OitaArchitectureNakatsu
Fukuzawa Yukichi's House
The low-ranking samurai house where Fukuzawa grew up, including the storehouse loft he converted himself to study in.
OitaArchitectureNakatsu
Ao no Domon
A monk watched travellers fall from a cliff path and spent thirty years cutting a tunnel with hammer and chisel; the marks remain.
OitaArchitectureHita
Mameda District, Hita
A shogunal town enriched by moneylending, its merchant houses set on a grid.
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.
OitaArt & CraftsOitaContemporary ArtHita
Water Hammers of Onta
Water-driven hammers crushing clay along the valley; their sound is listed among Japan's hundred soundscapes worth keeping.
OitaArchitectureKitsuki
Kitsuki Castle Town
Samurai quarters on two ridges with the merchants in the valley between - a castle town whose section is said to be unique.
OitaArchitectureSaiki
Samurai Street of Saiki
A samurai quarter of continuous earthen walls, closed at one end by a surviving turret gate.
OitaContemporary ArtNakatsu
Yabakei Gorge
Lava eroded into a run of pillars and walls; the scholar Rai Sanyo named it and made it famous through his writing.
OitaArt & Crafts
OitaArt & CraftsTaketa
Bungo Nanga Painting
Literati painting took root around Taketa, where picture, poem and calligraphy share one sheet.
OitaArt & CraftsTaketa
Himedaruma of Taketa
A papier-mache daruma in female form, drawn from a samurai wife's story and still made by one family.
OitaArt & CraftsHita
Hita Cedar and Woodwork
Cedar planted under direct shogunal management; at one point this town made more wooden clogs than anywhere in Japan.
Kunisaki
Stone Monuments of Kunisaki
Stone Buddhas and pagodas scattered across the whole peninsula - the soft tuff made carving easy and the tradition dense.
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.
Bungo-Ōno
Kagura of Bungo
Each hamlet has its own troupe, repairing and reusing masks whose carving betrays which troupe they belong to.
OitaContemporary ArtBungo-Ōno
Harajiri Falls
A 120-metre-wide falls opening abruptly in flat farmland, cut by the river into a plateau of Aso's own ash.
OitaArt & CraftsBungo-Ōno
Cliff Buddhas of Bungo Ono
Cliff carvings across the province; with Usuki, Oita has the densest concentration of them in Japan.
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.
OitaContemporary ArtBeppu
The Hells of Beppu
Pools of hot water divided into blue, red and white by their chemistry - geology showing its colours directly.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple