KumamotoContemporary ArtAso
Aso Caldera Rim
From the rim the whole 25-kilometre caldera falls into one view - scale itself becoming the landscape.
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KumamotoContemporary Art
OitaArt & CraftsOita
Oita Prefectural Art Museum
Its ground-floor glass folds fully open so street and gallery become one floor, under a timber lattice copying the province's basketry.
OitaArt & CraftsOita
Oita City Art Museum
Built around the literati painter Tanomura Chikuden, and the tradition of painting as a scholar's sideline.
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.
OitaArt & CraftsBeppu
Beppu Bamboo Craft
Begun as souvenirs for spa visitors and now producing Living National Treasures, built from eight basic weaves.
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.
OitaArchitectureBeppu
Takegawara Onsen
A public bathhouse under a temple-like gable, still offering the sand bath in which bathers are buried to the neck.
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.
OitaArt & CraftsYufu
COMICO ART MUSEUM YUFUIN
If space is available, admission is possible without a reservation; Kuma set black charred-cedar boxes to borrow the mountain behind them.
OitaArchitectureYufu
Yufuin Townscape
Residents chose to keep the fields and refuse development, regulating building heights and signs among themselves.
OitaArt & CraftsKunisaki
Kunisaki Pagodas
A stone pagoda form found only on this peninsula, its base carved with lotus petals unlike any elsewhere.
OitaArchitectureBungotakada
Showa Town, Bungotakada
A shuttered shopping street brought back to its 1950s state, down to the signage and the fittings inside the shops.
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.
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.
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.