Takachiho Gorge
Columnar joints from cooling Aso ash form seven kilometres of vertical wall, best seen looking up from a boat.
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Columnar joints from cooling Aso ash form seven kilometres of vertical wall, best seen looking up from a boat.
Alternating sandstone and mudstone eroded into regular ridges that ring the island at low tide.
A primeval forest saved when the mayor refused a felling plan; a suspension bridge now crosses its canopy.
Wave-cut ridges running along the coast, the tilt of the strata showing directly as pattern.
Stone-walled paddies cut into the Kyushu range, their contour lines running in tiers across the slope.
Logs stacked for growing shiitake fill the woods; mixing conifer and broadleaf shows on the mountain as pattern.
Terraces filling a valley named in the founding myths - story and farmland lying on the same ground.
Crater lakes coloured blue and green by volcanic chemistry, shifting with season and weather.
The island where monkeys were first seen washing sweet potatoes - the first record of culture transmitted among animals.
Vineyards terraced down a slope toward the sea - farming shaping terrain into steps.
Pines planted against blown sand form a straight belt along the coast - a drawn line holding the land.
Citrus terraced on stone; hyuganatsu was discovered by chance in Akae, Miyazaki City, and is a variety native to Miyazaki, now tied to the landscape that grows it.