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Kumamoto
One of Japan's three premier castles, famed for its curved 'musha-gaeshi' walls and dramatic post-earthquake reconstruction.
An elegant restored samurai mansion of the Hosokawa lords, showing how Kumamoto's ruling family lived in refined Edo style.
The decisive battlefield of the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, now a peaceful hilltop park of cherry trees and memorials.
A gorgeously preserved 1910 kabuki playhouse in the onsen town of Yamaga, complete with a hand-turned revolving stage.
A reconstructed 7th-century mountain fortress built to defend ancient Japan against invasion from the continent.
The riverside stone ramparts of the Sagara clan's castle, which ruled this remote valley for seven centuries.
The mountain cave where swordsman Miyamoto Musashi wrote 'The Book of Five Rings' in his final years.
A handsome Meiji-era red-brick academic hall, an Important Cultural Property from the dawn of modern Japanese education.
A serene strolling garden whose grassy hills recreate the 53 post stations of the old Tokaido road, including a miniature Mount Fuji.
Peer into the steaming, turquoise-tinged crater of one of the world's most active volcanoes atop the vast Aso caldera.
A vast green grassland plain in an ancient crater basin, grazed by horses beneath the smoking cone of Mount Aso.
The finest panorama of the entire Aso caldera, and Kyushu's top spot for a dawn sea of clouds.
A wide, curtain-like waterfall you can walk behind, tucked in the green hills of Oguni north of Aso.
A cool, forested ravine of clear pools and small waterfalls fed by Aso's pure spring water, ideal in summer.
A crystal-clear sacred spring in Minami-Aso pouring out 60 tonnes of pure water a minute, one of Japan's finest.
A majestic 1854 stone aqueduct bridge that still irrigates the plateau, famous for its dramatic water discharges.
A tranquil spring-fed lake beside Suizen-ji, loved by locals for lakeside walks, cherry blossoms and winter birdlife.
The shrine dedicated to castle-builder Kato Kiyomasa, set right beside Kumamoto Castle's mighty walls.
Kumamoto's chief guardian shrine, historically revered by the ruling lords and home to a huge autumn festival.
The grand Nichiren temple and hillside mausoleum of Kato Kiyomasa, positioned to overlook his castle for eternity.
One of Japan's oldest shrines, guardian of the Aso volcano, with a magnificent gate rebuilt after the 2016 earthquake.
A rare National Treasure shrine in remote Hitoyoshi, famed for its thatched gate and richly carved Momoyama-style halls.
A hillside Inari shrine near Kumamoto Station with vivid vermilion torii tunnels and sweeping city views.
A tranquil neighbourhood shrine near Honmyo-ji whose cherry-lined approach is a local springtime favourite.
