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Nicol’s

Nicol’s is a refined, high-quality select shop and cafe space for modern travelers, located within the hot spring town where Yufuin Onsen's rich nature and art fragrances comfortably fuse. Hand-picked unique, beautiful daily interior goods and traditional craft artworks collected from Japan and all over the world by owner's sophisticated aesthetic sense are lined up, allowing you to feel artisans' careful craftsman identity close at hand. Tasting a premium cup of flavorful coffee or delicious light meals utilizing local ingredients within the attached modern architectural space becomes a hideaway-like optimal spot to take a brief rest during your stroll, letting...

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Laurel Hita Country Club

Laurel Hita Country Club

Laurel Hita Country Club is a premium golf course beautifully designed by masterfully utilizing the rich natural terrain of Hita City, allowing you to fully enjoy high-grade play while looking at a vast grand view panorama. The contrast between the luxurious green fairways and the surrounding beautiful mountain ranges shows a perfect traditional Japanese harmony, featuring the best location to immerse yourself in activities while enjoying a leisurely walking stroll within the refreshing breeze. Stepping away from urban speed and taking a deep breath while surrounded by great nature's gentle embrace gently clears away daily stress, promising the best holiday...

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Kuncho Sake Brewery

Kuncho Sake Brewery

Kunchou Sake Brewery, located in the historic "Mameda-machi" of Hita City which once flourished as a former Tokugawa Shogunate direct control territory, is a highly valuable historical culture and craft spot where prestigious sake-brewing history and old traditional control storehouses built in 1702 are perfectly preserved. Expertly utilizing clear, pure water environment blessings from surrounding mountains and high-quality local rice, the deep-flavored ground sake crafted with local artisans' pride and predecessors' high wisdom holds a refined, smooth taste that fascinates visiting travelers. Walking through red-brick chimneys and atmospheric wooden streets while learning the depth of traditional Japanese sake fermentation and...

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Unagi Sagitei Rotir

Unagi Sagitei Rotir

Unagi Sagitei Rotir, standing in a gorgeous location looking out over Hita City's beautiful waterfront scenery, is a luxury refined専門店 (specialty dining restaurant) where you can taste Japan's pinnacle of traditional "Unagi" (eel) gastronomy within a modern, stylish architectural space. Expertly selecting only the highest-grade premium eels, the masterpieces cooked by skilled chefs with reliable craftsman identity are crisp on the outside and incredibly juicy on the inside, holding an extraordinary flavor that captures food-loving global travelers. Within the beautiful Japanese aesthetics breathing strongly through the interior, spending time enjoying a luxurious adult dining journey while looking at peaceful riverfront...

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Sanso Tensui

Sansou Tensui is an exceptionally sophisticated and prestigious luxury hot spring resort ryokan inn, tucked away quietly along a beautiful mountain stream embraced by the rich great nature of Amagase Town, Hita City. Surrounded by the deep forest's silence, only the peaceful stream murmur and wild birds' singing echo through the vast site, letting travelers feel completely step away from urban business and city speed from the moment you enter. The majestic open-air baths overlooking seasonal natural colors hold the highest quality "waters for beautiful skin" bubbling up constantly, gently melting away travel fatigue from the deep core. Tasting prestigious...

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Kijima Kogen Golf Club

Kijima Kogen Golf Club

Kijima Kogen Golf Club, located in a premium beautiful highland resort area at the foot of the majestic Mt. Yufu and Mt. Tsurumi, is a prestigious country club where you can enjoy luxury resort golf while feeling earth's dynamic life force with your entire body. Surrounded by lush green grass fairways and rich traditional forests, the strategically challenging courses hold excellent layouts, offering the best environment to play while feeling the refreshing highland breeze and looking at the mountains changing expressions in each season. Completely away from urban city schedules and digital daily noises, spending time here clears away mind-body...

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Takegawara Onsen

Takegawara Onsen

Takegawara Onsen, founded in 1879 with its current building featuring a magnificent, historic Karahafu-style wooden structure built in the early Showa period, is a prestigious and highly renowned public bathhouse conveying Beppu's long history and traditional essence. Stepping inside immediately welcomes travelers into a retro, nostalgic world of Japan's good old hot spring emotions. The absolute highlight here is the famous traditional "Sunayu" (Sand Bath), where your body is buried under local black sand comfortably warmed by natural hot spring heat, whose heavy, soothing warmth gently melts away daily stress and bodily fatigue from the deep core. Soak in the...

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Matama Beach

Matama Beach, located in Bungo-Takada City, is an absolute premier coastline selected as one of "Japan's Top 100 Sunsets," offering an unblocked grand view where you can watch the beautiful sun sink directly into the endless horizon. The spectacular natural artwork of the golden and orange light reflecting on the water surface alongside the unique, majestic "mudflat stripe patterns" that appear only at low tide is beautifully beyond words, deeply shaking global travelers' souls. Surrounded by the wide ocean and endless sky, listening to the wave murmur completely frees you from digital business and city speed, bringing deep tranquility to...

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Awashimasha Shrine

Awashimasha Shrine

Awashimasha Shrine, standing solemnly along the steep cliffs of a beautiful coastline in Bungo-Takada City, is a deeply sacred and prestigious ancient sanctuary protruding over the blue open ocean. The moment you step inside, the tide's pure aroma and clear air wrap your body as urban bustle completely clears away, letting you feel a divine atmospheric flow that cleanses the heart from the core. Long revered as the god overseeing prosperous matchmaking, safe childbirth, and women's wellness, the rare figure of the sacred "Torii" gate and shrine pavilions built inside the sea holds global attention as a magnificent power spot....

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Florist -TAKANO-

Florist -TAKANO-

Florist Takano (Florist -TAKANO-), quietly standing in a sophisticated town corner of Oita, is a highly prestigious flower design studio where Japan's delicate aesthetic sense and detailed spirit of hospitality are brilliantly concentrated. Masterfully utilizing fresh, seasonal Japanese traditional flowers, grass, and trees, the gorgeous floral artworks styled by skilled artists look exactly like a three-dimensional masterpiece painting, richly stimulating travelers' sensitivity. Rather than just looking at flowers, you can feel the reliable craftsman technology close at hand that maximizes the plants' natural life force, linked to the traditional Japanese philosophy of "Ikebana." Drop by during your stroll to calm...

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Cafe Nabe Mokuren

Cafe Nabe Mokuren

Cafe Nabe Mokuren, nestled quietly within Oita's peaceful and beautiful countryside landscape, is a warm, heart-healing hideaway spot where you can experience Japan's careful, heart-enriching lifestyle wisdom and traditional agricultural blessings with all five senses. Set within a beautifully renovated retro folk house style building full of character, the restaurant serves nourishing local dishes and fine sweets cooked masterfully with heavy traditional clay pots, utilizing fresh seasonal vegetables raised by fertile local earth. Completely cut off from modern city speed and digital society's noises, the slow time flowing by while surrendering yourself to soil's warmth gently realigns your mind-body balance,...

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Awashima Cafe

Awashima Cafe (AWASIMA CAFE), located along the beautiful "Koikana Road" (Love-Fulfilling Road) of Bungo-Takada City, is a sophisticated, stylish view cafe boasting an absolute premier location right next to the sea-protruding Awashima Shrine, overlooking the endless blue ocean and wide sky. Gazing at the peaceful scenery of the calm Suo Sea from grand open windows while tasting exquisite hand-made sweets and flavorful premium coffee beautifully colors your travel stay. Especially at dusk, you can enjoy a front-row seat to the mysterious golden and orange world of "Matama Beach," selected under Japan's top 100 sunsets, deeply healing travelers' hearts. Completely away...

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Juwari Soba Etsu

Juwari Soba Etsu

Juvari Soba Etsu, hidden quietly within Oita's rich, beautiful nature, is a refined and highly charming dining spot where you can deeply experience the essence of Japan's traditional "Soba" (buckwheat noodle) gastronomy using all five senses. Expertly using only clear, pure water environment blessings and high-quality buckwheat flour, the authentic, delicate hand-kneaded "Juvari Soba" (100% buckwheat noodles) features an extraordinary flavor and scent, capturing the hearts of food-loving global travelers. Completely away from urban noise and digital busy schedules, the quiet time spent tasting fine noodles served on elegant traditional tableware gently melts away travel fatigue, bringing sophisticated adult luxury...

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Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden

Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden

Mt. Takasaki Wild Monkey Park, located on the forested slopes of Mt. Takasaki bordering Oita and Beppu, is an exceptionally unique and valuable natural sanctuary where around 1,000 wild Japanese macaques live freely in two massive traditional groups. Featuring no cages or fences at all, the absolute openness allows visitors to closely observe the lovely figures of monkeys running around and grooming each other right before your eyes, granting global travelers deep core emotion and surprise. Experienced staff members provide highly entertaining guidance on the monkeys' clever social hierarchies and habits, richly satisfying your intellectual curiosity. Feel the vibrant pulse...

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Oita City

Oita City, flourishing as the energetic central hub of East Kyushu, is a highly attractive destination where rich history, sophisticated contemporary art, and the natural beauty of the blue ocean and green mountains comfortably harmonize. The city center houses historic ruins like "Oita Castle Ruin Park," while the area near the station reveres modern artists at the open-concept "Oita Prefectural Art Museum (OPAM)" and provides premium open-air hot spring experiences at "CITY SPA Tenku," looking out over Beppu Bay. Stepping just outside the urban area invites travelers into dynamic great nature, such as Mt. Takasaki where wild monkeys gather and...

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Bungo-ono City

Bungo-Ono City, located in southern Oita Prefecture, is a majestic natural sanctuary designated as a "UNESCO Global Geopark," allowing you to experience Earth's eternal history and dynamic life force with your entire body. Created by the giant eruptions of Mt. Aso, unique dramatic landscapes like magnificent cliffs with columnar jointing and grand waterfalls such as "Harajiri Falls" and "Komori Falls" are dotted everywhere, completely overwhelming visitors. The lush green mountains and pure, clear river streams offer the best environment to leisurely enjoy trekking and kayaking, completely stepping away from modern digital busyness and urban noise. Stroll along peaceful riverfront trails...

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Kitsuki City

Kitsuki City is globally renowned for its highly unique "Sandwich Castle Town" structure, serving as a beautiful historical city where the elegant emotions of the Edo period are perfectly preserved in the modern era. North and south elevated hills house dignified samurai residences, while traditional merchant quarters spread through the valley sandwiched between them, inviting travelers into a romantic world beyond time just by walking. Scenic stone-paved slopes like "Suyanozaka" and "Kanjobanozaka" hold the epitome of traditional Japanese aesthetic beauty, making it extremely popular for foreign travelers to rent a traditional kimono for a stroll. Tour the historic Kitsuki Castle...

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Taketa City

Taketa City, located in a beautiful basin surrounded by steep mountains, is a peaceful, emotional, and cultural city famous for the majestic "Oka Castle Ruins" and the carbonated waters of "Nagayu Onsen," where history and famous water environment breath strongly. Well-maintained samurai residences of the castle town era and old temples stand quietly, and strolling through the streets invites travelers into a romantic world beyond time. Boasting one of Japan's premier carbonated qualities, Nagayu Onsen warm waters comfortably warm your body from the core, gently melting away travel fatigue. Fully enjoy the clear water blessings brought by numerous famous springs...

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Usa City

Usa City houses the world-class sacred sanctuary of "Usa Jingu Shrine," the prestigious head shrine of all Hachiman shrines, serving as an exceptionally high-grade, special destination to touch the depth of Japan's ancient faith and history. Within the vast, green-rich precinct, magnificent national treasure shrine structures stand proudly, completely cutting you off from modern city speed and digital society's noises from the moment you enter, letting you feel your mind beautifully washed and purified. Moreover, Usa holds attractive local food cultures like flavorful "Usa Karaage" (fried chicken) and peaceful nature spots like the "Ajimu Area," famous for its beautiful boutique...

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Bungotakada City

Bungotakada City

Bungo-Takada City is a nostalgic and heart-warming historical cultural city capturing global attention as the home of "Showa no Machi" (Showa Town), which faithfully preserves and replicates the good old 1950s Japanese streetscape. Stepping inside immediately welcomes travelers into a warm, retro commercial shopping street, allowing you to touch the careful, heart-enriching lifestyle wisdom and spirit of hospitality that Japanese people have highly cherished. Moreover, the city's suburban areas house natural masterpieces like "Matama Beach" with its stunning sunset and holy sanctuaries such as "Kumano Magaibutsu," Japan's largest cliff-carved Buddhas, full of dynamic life force. We promise a wonderful holiday...

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Kunisaki City

Kunisaki City spreads over the Kunisaki Peninsula protruding into northeastern Oita Prefecture, serving as a prestigious and sacred sanctuary where the holy prayers and faith of "Rokugo Manzan," a unique ancient Buddhist culture, still breath strongly today. Hidden spots wrapped in steep mountains and deep forests are dotted, such as "Futago-ji Temple," historical cliff-carved Buddhas, and old temples, letting you feel a divine atmospheric flow that beautifully cleanses the heart from the moment you enter, completely shutting out urban noises. Harboring a unique ecosystem, it is also a treasure house of precious plants, and tracing historical footprints while listening to...

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Hiji Town

Hiji Town, located along the beautiful coastline overlooking Beppu Bay, is a highly beautiful destination where rich history as a former castle town of the Hiji Domain's Kinoshita clan and calm sea emotions gently coexist. The view overlooking Beppu Bay from the historic castle ruins, the town's symbol, is brilliant, allowing for a comfortable stroll within the slowly flowing time. The famous local high-end fish "Shiroashita Karei" (flatfish) fascinates visiting travelers with its elegant, refined taste. In this environment completely cut off from urban noise and digital daily busyness, traveling through old highway history and simple shrines and temples while...

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Kokonoe Town

Kuju Town is a highly attractive highland destination cradled by the vast earth of the majestic Kuju mountain range, where Oita's representative, overwhelming natural beauty and prestigious hot spring culture comfortably fuse. The panoramic views from the thrilling "Kuju 'Yume' Grand Suspension Bridge," boasting Japan's highest altitude for a pedestrian bridge, deeply shake the souls of visiting travelers. Throughout the town, highly individualistic onsen destinations like "Sujiyu Onsen," which masterfully utilizes Japan's top-class geothermal power, are dotted, allowing you to experience the life force of great nature entirely with all five senses while enjoying activities. Breathing the clean, fresh air...

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Saiki City

Saiki City, boasting one of Kyushu's largest areas, is a energetic and life-filled city nurtured by the dynamic vast ocean of the Bungo Channel and the lush greenery of the Mt. Sobo mountain range. Revering world-class gastronomic travelers, the famous "Saiki Sushi" and high-quality seasonal seafood catch from this rich sea feature an exceptional taste. Throughout the coastal terrain, hidden scenic nature spots like the mysterious "Fujikawachi Gorge" are dotted, where the power of pristine forests and rich negative ions gently loosen your mind-body tension from the core. Dotted also with old streetscapes of the castle town history, touch the...

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