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Miyazaki travel guide

The night kagura of Takachiho Jinja, Udo Jingu and Aoshima Jinja. Charcoal-grilled jidori chicken and mango, hiyajiru, and Takachiho gorge. Miyazaki, set out category by category.

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    Haniwaen

    Figures copied from the haniwa of Saitobaru stand among the trees.

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    Kunimigaoka

    On autumn mornings a sea of cloud fills the basin. A grandson of Emperor Jimmu is said to have surveyed the land from here.

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    Obi Jokamachi

    The little Kyoto of Kyushu. Its domain school, Shintokudo, survives.

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    Shrines & temples

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    Takachiho Jinja

    Held to be the place of the descent of the heavenly grandson. From November to February each year the night kagura is performed here, village by village, in private houses and kagura lodgings. From evening until the next morning, thirty-three dances are dedicated over a single night. An Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, it continues not as a spectacle but as something the village does for itself.

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    Udo Jingu

    Its main hall sits inside a cave on the coast. Held to be where the father of Emperor Jimmu was born, it is revered as a deity of safe childbirth.

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    Aoshima Jinja

    It stands on an island ringed by the wave-cut rock shelves called the devil's washboard, and is covered in subtropical plants.

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    Miyakonojo Wooden Swords

    The wooden swords of Miyakonojo. Oak and other woods are shaped into martial arts equipment. Production volume is the largest in Japan.

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    Hyuga Kaya Go Boards and Shogi Boards

    The kaya-wood go boards and shogi boards of Hyuga. Kaya with tight growth rings is sawn, dried and made into boards.

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    Miyakonojo Traditional Crafts Hall

    The traditional crafts hall of Miyakonojo. It exhibits the techniques of the great bow and the wooden sword.

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    Art & culture

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    Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum

    Home of Ei-Q, who made images by laying objects straight onto photographic paper; this is the fullest collection of his work.

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    Miyazaki Prefectural Museum

    With four relocated farmhouses in its grounds, and a substantial holding on the province's kagura masks and robes.

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    Haniwa Garden, Heiwadai Park

    Four hundred copies of excavated haniwa set out among trees - placed outdoors, closer to how they originally stood.

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    Takachiho Farm

    A farm in Miyakonojo at the foot of the Kirishima range, where you can meet the animals.

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    Obi Castle Historical Museum

    A museum in Nichinan, showing armour and swords handed down in the Obi domain.

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    Aoshima

    An island about 1.5 kilometres around off Miyazaki City, covered in subtropical plants and reached by bridge.

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