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Mt. Eboshi

Eboshi-dake is a beautiful mountain created by volcanoes, standing steeply in Aso's magnificent caldera. If you climb the mountain trail, a panoramic view that can overlook the whole view of Aso's magnificent caldera spreads out, and its overwhelming scale and volcano's life force deeply impress visiting travelers. In this place where the threat and beauty of nature coexist, you can realize that the earth is alive with your whole body. For those who wish to leave the city's noise completely, release themselves in great nature, and seek refreshment from the heart, it is the best adventure field. If you jump...

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Ikeyama Water Source

Ikeyama Water Source

Ikeyama Water Source is a very beautiful famous place for spring water quietly standing in Aso's rich nature. The water surface, which has surprisingly high transparency and shines blue in the light, never ceases to fascinate visitors. The forest around it has giant trees, and its silent air atmosphere brings overwhelming peace to visiting travelers. If you stroll leisurely around the water source and feel its cool air with your whole body, you can feel your mind and body being purified deeply. For those who wish to experience the importance of Japan's clear nature and water, the source of life,...

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Funonokuchi Water Source

Funonokuchi Water Source

Funonokuchi Water Source is a famous place where clear water springs out in Aso's deep nature, and it gives peace from the heart to visitors. Surrounded by forests and standing quietly, its figure has a hideaway-like atmosphere that makes you forget the city's hustle and bustle completely. The time spent listening to the sound of highly transparent water springing out is a valuable moment to forget daily fatigue and quietly face your own heart. In this place where you can feel the blessings of Japan's rich nature and the importance of clear water with your five senses, why don't you...

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Myojinike Water Park

Myojinike Water Park

Myojinike Water Park is a beautiful park blessed with Aso's clear water sources, and is a spot that provides peace from the heart to visitors. The beautiful pond water is surprisingly transparent, and its harmony with the rich green nature around it is truly Japan's good old scenery. If you stroll slowly through the park, you can feel the workings of nature nearby while listening to the water sound or birds' chirping. For those who want to feel the importance of Japan's clear nature and the water that is its blessing with their five senses and spend a quiet time,...

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Green Road

Green Road is a beautiful road full of greenery that runs through Aso's vast grassland zone. In the surroundings, a magnificent landscape created by volcanic energy spreads, and you can fully enjoy the beauty of nature that changes expressions according to the season. If you enjoy driving or cycling, you can feel Aso's great nature directly with your whole body, and you can get deep refreshment for both mind and body. There are superb view spots scattered along the route, and by stopping and touching its beauty, you can realize the greatness of Japan's magnificent nature again. For travelers seeking...

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Yamabuki Water Source

Yamabuki Water Source

Yamabuki Water Source is a famous place for clear water that springs out constantly in Aso's rich great nature. The harmony of deep forests and waterside is overwhelming and beautiful, giving peace from the heart to visitors. Water with high transparency shines glittering in the light, making you feel the art of great nature. Strolling around the water source and hearing the water sound or spending quiet time in the forest is optimal for staying away from the city's noise and refreshing your mind and body deeply. For those who want to feel nature's blessings and be healed from the...

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Kusabe Yoshimi Shrine

Kusabe Yoshimi Shrine

Kusabe Yoshimi Shrine is an ancient sacred shrine standing dignifiedly in the deep mountains of Aso. In the precinct of this shrine, overwhelming silence and signs of a long history protected by trees drift, bringing deep peace to visitors. The history of prayers continuing from the mythological era conveys the depth of Japan's Shinto culture to the present. The time to fold hands in the quiet air wrapping the precinct will be a valuable moment to face your own heart deeply. For travelers who wish to experience the good old Japanese spiritual world and the Japanese heart that fears and...

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Mizuho Yamada

Mizuho Yamada is a place where you can fully enjoy the charm of Japanese rural landscapes tied to local agriculture in the magnificent nature of Aso. Terraced rice fields that are beautiful and the appearance of the farming village colored by the seasons each make visitors feel Japan's original landscape and make them feel warm and nostalgic. Here, you can deeply taste the blessings fostered by Aso's soil and water through dishes using local ingredients and Japan's traditional agricultural experiences. For travelers who wish to stay away from the city's noise, touch the activities of people living with nature in...

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Takezaki Water Source

Takezaki Water Source

Takezaki Water Source is a famous place for clear water that springs out quietly in Aso's beautiful nature. Surrounded by rich forests and standing quietly, its figure is beauty like a jewel that great nature has hidden. The sound of springing water gives pleasant peace to the ears of visitors and makes them forget the city's hustle and bustle completely. Just by walking around the water source and inhaling its cool, refreshing air, you can feel your mind and body being purified deeply. For those who want to feel the importance of Japan's rich nature and the water that is...

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Milk Road

Milk Road is a very exhilarating and beautiful drive route that runs through Aso's vast grassland zone. The contrast between the green of the grassland and the blue sky is wonderful, and just by driving a car, you can directly feel Aso's great nature. There are several observation points along this route, and you can enjoy Aso's magnificent caldera from various angles, so many photographers and travelers visit. Driving while feeling the wind and touching the energy of nature is the best way to refresh your mind and body. For travelers who wish to jump into the懐 of great nature...

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Daikanbo

Daikanbo is the highest place in Aso's outer rim, and is a superb view spot where you can overlook one of the world's largest calderas. The scenery overlooking from there is a masterpiece panorama woven by the volcano's giant crater and the appearance of the five Aso peaks spreading inside, and it overwhelms all travelers who visit. It is also known as a place where sea of clouds are easily generated, and if you visit in the early morning, you can have a fantastic experience as if you are walking above the clouds. For those who want to feel the...

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Wakusawatsu Water Source

Wakusawatsu Water Source

Wakusawa-tsu Water Source is a famous place for clear water that springs out constantly in the rich great nature of Kumamoto, and is as transparent as crystal glass. Water that has passed through the strata created by Aso's volcano over a long time is truly the blessing of life on earth itself. Its water beauty and the air of the quiet forest around it heal visitors from the heart and are a blissful space that makes you forget the fatigue of daily life. The time spent leisurely near the water source will be a valuable moment to realize the depth...

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Seieizan

Seieizan is a beautiful mountain surrounded by Aso's magnificent nature, and the figure of great nature that shows expressions in each season fascinates visitors. For those who enjoy mountain climbing and hiking, the panoramic view of Aso's caldera and vast grasslands viewed from the top is a superb view that takes your breath away. In this place where the power and silence of nature coexist, you can leave the city's noise and feel the earth's breath directly on your skin. For travelers who wish to release themselves in great nature and refresh, Seieizan can be said to be an optimal...

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Suizenji Jojuen Garden

Suizenji Jojuen Garden

Suizenji Jojuen Garden is a very beautiful and prestigious daimyo garden created in the early Edo period. The garden, centered on a pond where spring water from Aso springs out, and with a Tsukiyama modeled after Mt. Fuji, can be said to be a crystal of traditional Japanese aesthetic sense. Flowers of each season color the garden, giving overwhelming peace to visitors. The beautiful landscape viewed while strolling slowly around the pond is fantastic enough to make you forget the passage of time. This place, where you can feel the harmony of nature that Japan's good old beauty and predecessors...

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Reigando Cave

Reigando is a very historical and mysterious cave located in the premises of Unganzenji Temple, and is known globally as the place where the master swordsman Miyamoto Musashi spent his later years and wrote the famous military strategy book "The Book of Five Rings." The steepness of the rock surface and the silence surrounding it convey the tension and deep thought air of the time when Musashi once sat in Zen and sharpened his mind and body. When you enter the cave, you are wrapped in a mysterious sensation as if the flow of time has stopped, and visiting travelers...

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Shimada Museum of Art

Shimada Museum of Art

Shimada Museum of Art is an excellent museum in Kumamoto City for those who love traditional Japanese art and ancient art. Valuable items such as arms related to Miyamoto Musashi are carefully exhibited, and you can deeply taste their historical stories in a quiet space. In the museum, a rich green garden spreads, and spending time soaking in the lingering memory of appreciating art works while feeling the change of nature according to the season is a blissful moment. For travelers with a heart that respects traditional Japanese beauty and history, it is the best place to spend a quiet...

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Izumi Shrine

Izumi Shrine, which is located in the premises of Suizenji Jojuen, is a very prestigious shrine created in the Meiji era to enshrine the successive lords of the Hosokawa family. Inside the precinct, there is a quiet and solemn air that has continued to watch over Kumamoto's history, bringing deep peace to the hearts of visitors. The figure of the shrine harmonizing with the beautiful green of the garden conveys the beauty of Japan's traditional spiritual world and nature worship to the present. The time to fold hands in this place, where the thoughts of people who have supported Kumamoto's...

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Kumamoto City

Kumamoto City is a very vibrant city where Kumamoto Castle is a symbol, and history, culture, nature, and delicious food are perfectly harmonized. The historical townscape that has prospered as a castle town makes you feel the good old Japanese heart even in modern urban functions. In this city where streetcars run through the city and people warmly welcome travelers, it is optimal for travelers who want to spend time with peace of mind unique to Japan. Gourmet foods such as delicious ramen and horse sashimi are also famous, and it can be said to be an irresistible city for...

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Uto City

Uto City faces the Ariake Sea, and it is a city attractive for beautiful mudflats and landscapes full of historical emotion. In particular, the sunset from the Okoshiki Coast is known as one of the best superb view spots in Japan, and the art woven by geometric sand ripples and sunlight that appear after the tide draws is a masterpiece. Also, famous water such as Todoroki Water Source is springing out, and it is blessed with rich nature. You can spend a calm time while feeling the nature and the activities of people's lives since ancient times in Japan. For...

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Shimofukura Terraced Rice Fields

Shimofukura Terraced Rice Fields

The Lower Fukura Terraced Rice Fields are superb terraced rice fields that are breathtakingly beautiful, where Japan's traditional agricultural wisdom is beautifully expressed. Rice fields stacked in many layers along the mountain surface shine in vivid green or golden color depending on the season, making you feel the origin of Japan's rural landscape. The scenery, which gives overwhelming peace to visitors, is also a proof of the history in which Japan's great nature and people have lived in harmony. The state of the terraced rice fields that change expressions with the transition of the seasons is very photogenic, and it...

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Yatsushiro City

Yatsushiro City

Yatsushiro City has prospered as a port town since ancient times, and is a city where rich nature and historical townscapes are still beautifully harmonized. There are many places filled with historical romance, such as the ruins of Yatsushiro Castle, which is a nationally designated important cultural property, and traditional festivals, making it optimal for those who want to learn Japanese deep history and culture slowly. Also, since it is located at the mouth of the Kuma River, it is also a treasure house of food where you can enjoy rich water blessings and seafood. There are also many events...

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Ashikita Town

Ashikita Town is an attractive town blessed with beautiful natural environments facing the Shiranui Sea, and the blessings of the sea and mountains. From the road running along the coastline, you can enjoy a beautiful panoramic view of the sea, and it is full of spots optimal for photography. Also, traditional living still breathes, and by touching the warm hospitality of local people, you can spend time relaxed from the heart. Gourmet food using fresh seafood and strolling while looking at the idyllic rural landscape will make you forget the busy daily life completely. For those who want to relax...

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Minamata City

Minamata City has overcome the environmental problems of the past and has now been reborn as an "Environmental Model City" that cherishes beautiful nature and the environment. Beautiful coastlines of the Shiranui Sea and rich greenery, such as landscapes of regenerated great nature, are spreading comfortably. Visiting this city should be a deep opportunity to learn the importance of the environment and think about how nature and humans can coexist. Also, gourmet food that can be obtained by cherishing the environment, such as fresh local seafood and mountain vegetables, is also attractive. For travelers who wish to learn deeply about...

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Aso City

Aso City is located in the magnificent caldera of Mt. Aso and is a city attractive for its overwhelming volcanic energy and vast grassland landscape. The view from Daikanbo is visited by many travelers from all over the world as a place where you can enjoy the formative beauty of the earth created by volcanoes at once. Here, you can feel the wisdom of people living with the activities of volcanoes and the spiritual world of Japan's traditional nature worship. Hot springs are also abundant, and you can refresh your mind and body deeply while soaking in the blessings of...

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