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Takegawara Onsen
A public bathhouse under a temple-like gable, still offering the sand bath in which bathers are buried to the neck.
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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.
OitaArchitectureKunisaki
Rokugo Manzan of Kunisaki
Temples across a peninsula where gods and Buddhas were never separated, linked by mountain paths walked as training.
OitaArt & Crafts
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.
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.
OitaArt & Crafts
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kunisaki
Villages of Kunisaki
A dry peninsula riddled with reservoirs, its stone-walled homesteads set between them.
OitaArchitectureOita
Funai and its Christian Past
The town of a Christian daimyo, with a church and hospital - among the first Japanese cities to take in European culture.
Beppu
Communal Bathhouses of Oita
Over a hundred bathhouses in Beppu are run by neighbourhood associations - plain buildings whose form follows who manages them.
MiyazakiMuseumsMiyazaki
Miyazaki Prefectural Museum
With four relocated farmhouses in its grounds, and a substantial holding on the province's kagura masks and robes.