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Sekizaki Lighthouse

Sekizaki Lighthouse

Sekizaki Lighthouse, built in 1901, stands on the steep cliffs overlooking the narrow channel separating the Bungo Channel and Iyo-Nada sea at the easternmost edge of Saganoseki Peninsula, serving as Oita's oldest, beautiful white Western-style lighthouse still in service. The historic, masterfully designed lighthouse commands a grand panorama view overlooking the dynamic, beautiful blue sea大海原 where fast currents weave, and far-spreading islands, granting deep core emotion to global travelers. The refreshing sea breeze blows through, and walking along the well-maintained trails while feeling seasonal nature provides the best environment. Completely cut off from city speed, surrender your body to Earth's...

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Yoshino Plum Garden

Yoshino Plum Garden

Yoshino Plum Garden, located in the Yoshino district of Oita City, is a highly renowned plum blossom master destination that blooms with overwhelming beauty along with the arrival of spring in a quiet, historic precinct. Within the well-maintained vast venue, thousands of colorful plum blossoms bloom all at once—including the solemn famous tree "Garyu-bai"—filling the entire park with gorgeous, gentle fragrance and colors, granting deep emotion as if straying into a masterpiece Japanese painting. The solemn atmosphere of the historic shrine and natural colors show a perfect contrast, and strolling through silence to gaze at beautiful flowers gently melts away...

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Nanase Dam

Nanase Dam, constructed at the upstream of the Nanase River in Oita City, is a vast, quiet, and serene rock-fill-style beautiful giant dam surrounded by majestic natural mountains. The lake surface of the vast man-made lake created by the dam beautifully reflects the rich green trees and blue sky around, and that quiet, mysterious scenery alone deeply heals visiting travelers' hearts. Around the venue, well-maintained walking paths and the beautiful "Notsuharu Sky Plaza" are fully arranged, offering the best location to enjoy walking while feeling the refreshing breeze and looking at mountain colors changing expressions in each season. Completely away...

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Kamezuka Kofun (Ancient Tomb)

Kamezuka Kofun (Ancient Tomb)

Kamezuka Kofun, located in Oita City, is a magnificent "front-rear-type" ancient tomb cluster spanning about 116 meters long, built in the early 5th century, serving as a highly valuable historical ruins park conveying the depth of ancient Japanese history and the stories of powerful ancient rulers. Currently, it is faithfully reproduced to its original figure and beautifully maintained, with numerous "Haniwa" clay pot replicas lined up around the tomb showing a solemn figure, inviting travelers into an ancient spiritual world the moment you step inside. The attached museum allows you to learn about valuable excavated artifacts in detail, making it...

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Kurasasu Dome

Kurasasu Dome is a sophisticated, contemporary multi-purpose event and sports facility located in a place that reflects Oita Prefecture's rich natural environment and advanced sports culture. Within the grand dome space utilizing the latest superior architectural technology, various sports competitions and rich regional culture events are held regularly, comfortably stimulating travelers' intellectual curiosity. The surrounding area is beautifully maintained with lush green turf and nature, perfectly set up to immerse yourself in activities or events while feeling comfortable winds away from city noise. It is a brilliant junction place where industrial vitality and traditional land intersect, promising a comfortable and...

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Nanasegawa Nature Park

Nanasegawa Nature Park

Nanasegawa Nature Park, spreading within the rich, beautiful nature environment south of Oita City, is a premier waterfront park where the clear stream of the Nanase River and beautiful greenery comfortably harmonize, allowing you to feel Earth's dynamic life force with your entire body. The vast site is fully equipped with beautiful lawn plazas, well-maintained walking paths, and aquatic areas where you can feel the river's touch, full of amusement that captures both adults and children. Completely cut off from busy city schedules and digital society's busyness, spending time walking while feeling the refreshing breeze and enjoying forest bathing is...

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Michi-no-Eki Tanourara

Michi-no-Eki Tanourara

Michi-no-Eki Tanourara, located along the beautiful Beppu Bay coastal line connecting Oita City and Beppu City, is a highly stylish, sophisticated, and vast master information-delivery hub that delivers latest, rich regional historical culture and premium specialty information to global travelers. The venue is fully equipped with sophisticated restaurants where you can taste fresh, delicious seasonal ingredients and local delicacies nurtured by Oita's fertile earth and rich ocean, alongside refined souvenir items shining with artisans' craftsman identity, helping you complete a much more fulfilling travel plan. It also retains nostalgic historical stories, such as exhibiting actual retro, beautiful tram cars that...

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Sekizaki Mirai Kaiseikan

Sekizaki Mirai Kaiseikan

Sekizaki Mirai Kaiseikan, built on a high hill at the easternmost edge of Saganoseki Peninsula, is a latest, sophisticated observatory and environmental center where you can experience the mysteries of the universe with all five senses while looking out over a grand panorama view of the vast blue ocean and wide open sky of the Bungo Channel. Inside the venue, a large astronomical telescope boasting Kyushu's premier scale is fully equipped, allowing you to observe the mystery of shining stars in the daytime or the starry sky at night closely, richly stimulating travelers' intellectual curiosity. From the observation deck, you...

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Oita Castle Ruin Park

Oita Castle Ruin Park

Oita Castle Ruin Park, located in the central heart of Oita City, is a historical oasis featuring beautiful moats and rich greenery, where the historic footprint legacy of the prestigious Oita Castle (Funai Castle) that ruled the land from the warring states to the Edo period is beautifully conveyed. Currently, sturdy stone walls, beautiful white-walled turrets, and the Ote-mon gate are carefully protected, allowing you to completely step away from urban busyness and feel a romantic history story beyond time the moment you step inside. Especially in spring, beautiful cherry trees bloom in full glory around the moats, showing a...

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Saganoseki

Saganoseki, located on the eastern tip of the peninsula protruding from Oita City, is a highly attractive, emotional harbor town where the dynamic vast ocean of the Bungo Channel, rich greenery, and deep history harmonize. It is the hometown of the world-class ultra-high-grade brand premium fish "Seki Aji and Seki Saba," and the luxurious food culture where you can enjoy the fresh sea blessings caught via traditional single-line fishing is a gourmet paradise for global travelers. The coastline is dotted with intellectual curiosity-satisfying scenic spots like the mysterious "Sekizaki Lighthouse" and the ancient Hachiman Nata-gu Shrine; walking through them while...

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Imaichi Stone Pavement

Imaichi Stone Pavement

Imaichi Stone Pavement, quietly lying in the Imaichi district of Oita City, is a prestigious, master historical site designated as a national historic site, extending about 660 meters, which captures the historic stories of the "Old Higo Highway" built in the Edo period and conveys them to the modern era. Sturdy stone walls and old streetscapes that preserve the footprints of the era when many samurai traveled for "Sankin-kotai" (daimyo's alternate attendance) remain, inviting travelers into a romantic world beyond time the moment you step inside. Walking slowly at your own pace along the old stone pavement wrapped in deep...

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Heiwa Shimin Park

Heiwa Shimin Park

Peace Citizen Park, located in the central heart of Oita City, is a vast, sophisticated master natural park surrounded by rich, beautiful nature and the clear stream of the Ura River, where you can gently realign your mind and body. The absolute premier highlight here is the breathtaking view when about 800 beautiful cherry trees bloom all at once along the riverside in spring, where pink colors weave a perfect contrast with the surrounding greenery and blue sky, fascinating global travelers. The park is equipped with a full-scale, beautiful traditional "Noh Stage," Japanese gardens, and vast lawn plazas, where you...

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Okabaru Flower Park

Okabaru Flower Park

Okabaru Flower Park, expanding over the peaceful, beautiful hill area of Oita City, is a hidden masterpiece nature flower park where beautiful flowers and lush greenery comfortably harmonize. The expansive floral carpet changing colors in each season—such as beautiful tulips or nemophilas in spring and cosmos in autumn—filling the entire park in vivid colors deeply heals visiting travelers' hearts from the deep core. Strolling leisurely along the walking paths through the peaceful air lets the lush wood power fill your body, and you can feel daily stress gently melt away. Away from urban noise, breathe deeply while gazing at beautiful...

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Kantan Minato Park

Kantan Minato Park

Kantan Harbor Park, built by beautifully renovating an old port area along the Beppu Bay in Oita City, is a peaceful, open-concept stylish waterfront park where refreshing sea breeze and sophisticated modern spaces comfortably harmonize. The location overlooking the blue ocean and wide sky is brilliant, lined with stylish cafes and high-quality shops utilizing old warehouses, making it a perfect spot to drop by during your stroll to luxuriously color your travel time. At dusk, the sky and ocean shine beautifully in orange, and listening to the wave murmur while quietly standing brings deep tranquility and clear peace to your...

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Sasamuta Shrine

Sasamuta Shrine

Nishisamuta Shrine, standing solemnly within a peaceful location wrapped in Oita City's rich nature, is an exceptionally prestigious first-rank shrine holding a long history and a sacred atmosphere. Within the precinct, dignified giant trees and beautiful shrine pavilions radiating historical weight line up, and the moment you step inside, you can feel a divine atmospheric flow that cleanses the heart, completely shutting out urban speed and noises. Especially in spring, magnificent "Wisteria flowers" over 400 years old bloom magnificently along the approach, filling the entire precinct with gorgeous, gentle fragrance and colors, which fascinates global travelers. Quietly pray to touch...

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Takashima

Takashima, floating alone off the coast of Saganoseki, Oita City, is a mysterious, hidden-away island with untouched rich great nature and a slow flow of calm time, heart-healing for visiting travelers. The surroundings are wrapped in transparent, beautiful emerald-green sea, and it is a treasure house of rare subtropical plants and a paradise for wild birds designated as national natural monuments, deeply stimulating travelers' intellectual curiosity. Completely released from busy daily life in this quiet space, enjoying forest bathing, camping, and bird watching while feeling the refreshing sea breeze is the best stress release. Feel Earth's gentle embrace for a...

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Utanosato

Uta no Sato, located within Bungo-Ono City's peaceful and beautiful nature, is a hidden, experiential eco-tourism spot where you can experience Japan's good old rich lifestyle wisdom and nature's kindness with all five senses. Respecting the nature ecosystem, the area is kept carefully, and in early summer, wild "Fireflies" dance brilliantly across pure waterfront areas, granting a fantastic, deep emotion as if straying into a fantasy world. Completely cut off from urban noise in this hideaway place, leisurely stroll while sensing nature's peaceful breath, and enjoying harvest experiences or local nutritious food brings deep spiritual peace and aligns your mind-body...

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Kawakami Gorge

Kawakami Gorge, flowing through the upper streams of the Okudake River in Bungo-Ono City Ogata Town, is a peaceful, beautiful, and "hidden masterpiece" canyon where lush natural water-front nature and beautiful greenery comfortably harmonize. The modeling beauties like mysterious potholes dynamically carved over a long time by pure river flow, and the mountains changing expressions in each season present perfect harmony, deeply healing visiting global travelers' hearts. Completely cut off from modern digital business and daily speed in this hidden sanctuary, spending time walking leisurely along the green-rich riverfront while listening to cool water murmurs softly loosens mind-body tension, bringing...

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Kamibaru Gorge

Kamibaru Gorge, located at the foot of the majestic Mt. Sobo in Taketa City, is a highly mysterious and beautiful secret canyon where dynamic, overwhelming natural modeling beauty—carved harshly over a long time by pure water flow—spreads out, designated as a part of the UNESCO World Geopark. Along the gorge, clear, emerald-green-shining water flows, and the rich primary forest trees wrapping the entire scenery echo with peaceful stream whispers and rich negative ions, softly loosening travelers' hearts from the deep core. Especially in autumn, the vivid red leaves color the entire canyon brilliantly, granting words-defying, absolute master scenic views. Completely...

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Kuju Forest Park Ski Resort

Kuju Forest Park Ski Resort

Kuju Forest Park Ski Resort, cradled by the majestic Kuju mountain range of Kuju Town, is a popular, premier, and absolute master ski destination enjoying grand panoramic views across Kyushu, the only one offering premium winter sports. Located in great nature at an altitude of 1,300 meters, the courses command a grand view over far-soaring beautiful mountain colors, bringing an absolute sense of openness that instantly blows away small daily stresses. Perfect for both beginners and advanced skiers and snowboarders, moving forward while inhaling the clean, fresh air of the forest into your lungs fills your heart with pleasant satisfaction...

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Usuki Sarayama

Usuki Sarayama is a sophisticated hideaway craft spot located in Usuki City, where you can deeply learn the history story of the traditional craft "Usuki-yaki" (Usuki Pottery) that flourished here since the Edo period, along with modern artisans' careful craftsman identity. Within the quiet, beautiful mountain green-wrapped venue, pottery-producing kilns, beautiful galleries, and sophisticated cafes are dotted, letting you feel completely cut off from urban noise and digital society's busyness the moment you enter. Exquisite white porcelain vessels created by artisans with reliable craftsman identity are truly artworks, and exploring the kilns to find your favorite vessels is the ultimate...

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Hachiman Nadagu

Hachiman Nadagu

Hachiman Nata-gu Shrine, standing quietly along the beautiful Nata coastline of Kitsuki City, is an ancient sanctuary filled with exceptionally holy air, said to hold an old history of over 1000 years. The absolute top highlight is the magnificent "Underwater Torii" gate standing with dignity on the beautiful white sandy beach; washed by blue waves at high tide and crossable on foot at low tide, its mysterious figure holds global attention as an SNS-worthy magnificent scenic spot. In the precinct, historic solemn pine forests spread out, and the moment you step inside, urban noise completely clears away to let you...

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Takahira Campground

Takahira Campground

Takahira Campground, located in the Kamae area of Saiki City, is a premium outdoor paradise where you can feel Earth's dynamic life force with your entire body, commanding a grand panorama view of the magnificent blue ocean and islands woven by the rias coastline of the Bungo Channel from an elevated hill 280 meters high. The magnificent horizon shines beautifully like a mirror with the rising sun and starry skies, and that quiet, mysterious scenery alone deeply heals visiting travelers' hearts. Completely shut out from busy modern schedules and digital society, enjoying forest bathing, camping, and cycling here is the...

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Karashima Kokunokura

Karashima Kokunokura

Karashima Kokuu-no-Kura, located in Usa City, is a latest, intellectual cultural experience and information spot produced by Sanwa Shuru, the brewer of Oita's representative legendary sake "Iichiko," where rich history and sophisticated modern spaces fuse comfortably. Within the high-quality interior of beautiful wooden architecture, you can deeply learn the fermentation history of Japanese sake and craft beer nurtured by Usa's fertile earth and pure water environment, fully enjoying special programs to taste and savor freshly brewed premium liquor found nowhere else. Strolling through the beautiful Japanese garden while spending quiet time provides a sophisticated adult culture retreat to touch Japan's...

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