Shiromi Jinja
The Shiromi kagura is an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. It keeps the old form of offering a boar's head.
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The Shiromi kagura is an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property. It keeps the old form of offering a boar's head.
A great rock is its deity. Known for the avenue of cherry trees on its approach.
One of the six Kirishima Gongen shrines. It stands on the northern foot of the Kirishima mountains, at the foot of Hinamori-dake.
On autumn mornings a sea of cloud fills the basin. A grandson of Emperor Jimmu is said to have surveyed the land from here.
More than 300 burial mounds spread across the plateau. One of the largest such groups in Japan.
An avenue of phoenix palms runs along the coast. It was once the mecca of the honeymoon.
The crater lakes of the Kirishima range. The starting point for climbing Karakunidake.
Home of Ei-Q, who made images by laying objects straight onto photographic paper; this is the fullest collection of his work.
With four relocated farmhouses in its grounds, and a substantial holding on the province's kagura masks and robes.
Four hundred copies of excavated haniwa set out among trees - placed outdoors, closer to how they originally stood.
Buried underground so as not to disturb the mounds, and unusual in letting visitors handle some of the finds.
Worship is directed not at a hall but at a cave across the river; nearby, stones piled by visitors have accumulated into a landscape.
A castle town of cedar fences and stone walls, the first in Kyushu designated a preservation district.
A port trading with Osaka, and so lined with Kyoto-style townhouses rarely seen elsewhere in Kyushu.