Things to Do in Kyushu, Japan
The volcanic south: active craters, some of Japan's best onsen, and gateways to the Ryukyu islands.
156 destinations across 7 prefectures
Festivals in Kyushu
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Places to Visit in Kyushu
Greenland
One of Japan's Largest Amusement Parks, in Arao, Kumamoto
A huge amusement park in Arao on the Kumamoto-Fukuoka border with one of the largest ride line-up...
Shiiba Village
Shiiba: A Heike Love Story, All-Night Kagura and the Last Slash-and-Burn Fields in the Kyushu Mountains
A mountain village in the Kyushu Mountains where, the story goes, a Genji general sent to hunt do...
Tokara Islands
Tokara Islands: Seven Inhabited Islands on One Village Ferry, Twice a Week
A chain of islands between Yakushima and Amami-Oshima that make up Toshima village, with people l...
Tsushima
Japan's Border Island, 49.5 km from Korea and 82 km End to End
A long, forested island in the strait between Kyushu and Korea, with a 7th-century border fort, a...
Ikeshima
Kyushu's Last Coal Mine Island, with a Trolley Ride Underground
A small island off the Sotome coast of Nagasaki that mined coal from 1959 until 2001. Most of the...
Cape Sata
Mainland Japan's Southern Tip, at the End of an 800 m Jungle Path
The southernmost point of mainland Japan, at the tip of the Osumi Peninsula. From the car park an...
Mount Unzen
A Ropeway to 1,333 Meters and a Lava Dome Formed in the 1990s
The volcanic massif at the center of the Shimabara Peninsula, reached by the one-way Nita Pass ro...
Gokanosho
Gokanosho: Five Refugee Hamlets at the End of Yatsushiro's Mountain Roads
Five hamlets in the mountains of eastern Yatsushiro, said to have been settled by Heike and Sugaw...
Hizen Nagoya Castle Ruins
Hideyoshi's Short-Lived Base for the Invasions of Korea
Stone walls and a bare keep base on a headland north of Karatsu, all that is left of the castle T...
Kashiragashima Church
A Stone Church Its Congregation Quarried by Hand, on a Goto Island Once Left to the Sick
A sandstone church on Kashiragashima, off Nakadori island in the Goto chain, built from 1910 to 1...
Takegawara Onsen
Beppu's 1938 Public Bathhouse, Where Staff Bury You in Hot Sand
A city-run bathhouse a 10-minute walk from Beppu Station, in a 1938 wooden building with a curved...
Michi-no-Eki Kamae
Yellowtail and dried fish at Oita's southern tip
A fishing-port station on Route 388 in Kamae, at the southern tip of Oita next to the Miyazaki bo...
Michi-no-Eki Kirishima
Sakurajima from a mountainside park
A roadside station inside Kirishima Shinwa-no-Sato Park, high on Route 223 in the Kirishima mount...
Michi-no-Eki Phoenix
Looking down on the Devil's Washboard
An old clifftop drive-in on the Nichinan coast, about 1 km south of Horikiri Pass. The building i...
Mount Kaimon
Satsuma Fuji: A Spiral Trail Up a 924 m Cone by the Sea
A near-perfect 924-meter volcanic cone at the southern tip of the Satsuma Peninsula, called Satsu...