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Japanese religion

 

Japan’s indigenous religion is Shinto. It is an ethnic religion that has continued from

Japan’s ancient times to the present day, and has permeated all aspects of Japanese

life and culture, and has the energy to accept foreign cultures including religions and

transform them into a Japanese style.

 

 

Unlike many religions, it has no founder or scripture, and is based on the idea that God

resides in all things. It is an animistic, ancestral spirit-worshipping folk religion that focuses

on myths, eight million gods, nature and natural phenomena.

 

Japanese Buddhism was introduced through China in the 5th century and is a religion

that has now been incorporated into Japanese life along with Shinto.

 
What surprises many foreigners is that Japanese people visit shrines and temples.
The reason is that there are two religions in Japan. Shinto and Buddhism have
influenced each other over many years and have become integrated into Japanese life.
Japanese people worship an idol called Hotoke and are in awe of an invisible being
called Kami. I don’t find it strange that I go to Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. ”

Festivals & Events in Kyushu

 

Tamaseseri / wooden ball catching festival   Fukuoka, January

New Year’s Festival held in January, at Hakozaki Shrine
A traditional form of fortune-telling, several hundred men 
wearing lion cloths compete on piggy back in two teams, 
the “sea” team and the “land” team team, 
for possession of a wooden ball. more


 

Nagasaki Lantern Festival   Nagasaki, Chanese new year

An annual festival in Nagasaki held on Chinese new year.
The festival has been started to celebrate a new year by 
Chinese who lived in Nagasaki, and it became the Nagasaki’s 
festival since 1994. More than 10 thousand lanterns are 
decorated at China town during the festival.  more

 

Yanagawa Sagemon Festival   Yanagawa, February through April

The festival is held from February 11 through April 3 in 
Yanagawa. Hina dolls are displayed by families with girls 
to pray for safe growth of their children, in Yanagawa, 
in addition to Hina dolls, colourful “Sagemon” are displayed.
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Kyokusui-no-en  Dazaifu, March

The festival is held at Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine on first 
Sunday of March, a purification ceremony on a winding 
stream, is performed by ladies and gentlemen in a ceremonial 
court robe under the plum blossoms in full-bloom. 
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Hakata Dontaku Festival   Fukuoka, May

The name Dontaku is a corruption of the Dutch word Zontag, 
meaning Sunday. The festival is said to have started as a 
New Year parade of merchants going to the local lord’s 
residence to celebrate. It is held on May 3 and 4 in Hakata, Fukuoka-city

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Hakata Gion Yamakasa Festival    Fukuoka, June

The most exciting summer festival in Japa, takes place from 
July 1 to 15 and is held at Kushida-jinja Shrine in Hakata.

There are two kinds of festival floats called Yamagasa.
One is Kazari-yamagasa with 15 meters high, a gorgeously decorated festival float which is decked with elaborate dolls and castles  more

 

Kokura Gion Daiko Festival   Kitakyushu, June

The festivals held in july around Kokura Castle, in which the 
main attraction is the playing the drums. The highlights of the 
Festival which you should not miss are the Taiko Performing 
Contest held at Kokura Castle on July 15th, and the Taiko 
Performing Parade held  on July 16th.  more

 

Tobata Gion Yamagasa     Kitakyushu, June

Float Festivals including Tobata Gion Yamagasa inscribed on UNESCO Intangible Heritage List in 2016. The festival has a lot of energy and is very dynamic as is

the case with festivals such as the Hakata Gion Yamagasa,with young men
wearing the happi  and hachimaki,carrying the Yamagasa and 
walking around the town shouting  “yoitosa yoitosa”. more ..


 

Wasshoi Million Summer Fastival    Kitakyushu, August

The Festival is one of the festivals representing Kyushu 
and  started in 1988 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of th
formation of the city and has more than one and half million
spectators every year.
  It is held in Kokura on the 1st Saturday 
and Sunday in August.  more 

 

Hojoya   Fukuoka, September

One of Hakata’s three main festivals, held in September at the
Hakozaki Shrine, and is a celebration of all living creatures. 
The festival has a a history of over 1000 years.

Join the cheerful crowd in colorful yukata and experience a rare, 
unhurried slice of old-time festivities in Fukuoka.  more


 

Nagasaki Kunchi   Nagasaki, October

It is one of big-three festival in Japan, held on October 7 to 9 
at Suwa Shrine. The festival features Chinese dance including 
Ja-odori, this time dancing all around the city but especially at 
Suwa Shrine. The whole of Nagasaki Kunchi dance was 
designated on Important Intangible Cultural Assetmore

 

Sumo Tournament    Fukuoka, Nobember

Sumo is a Japanese traditional martial art.
Professional Sumo Tournament is held six times a year, in Tokyo, Nagoya,

Osaka and Fukuoka. Fukuoka Tournament is held at Fukuoka International 
Center in November.  more 


 

Chrysanthemum exhibition   Throughout Kyushu, mid October to mid Nobember

The chrysanthemum has been a familiar flower to Japanese 
as the symbol of the Imperial Family and a symbol of longevity 
and rejuvenation. 
The Chrysanthemum exhibition is held annually in autumn 
from mid October to mid November in many shrines, temples 
and gardens throughout Japan.  more

 

 

 

Japanese cuisines and beverages

Japan is a foodie’s paradise, with some of the finest and most 
varied cuisine in the world.

 

 Traditional cuisine of Japan (日本食)

It is based on steamed rice, soy bean soup and The traditional 
cuisine of Japan is based on steamed rice, soy bean soup and 
other dishes; there is an emphasis on seasonal ingredients. 
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Baked Eel(うなぎの蒲焼)

Eel are very nutritious, and are believed to provide us with a 
lot of physical energy.
Before eating, powdered “Sansho”, a kind of spice, is usually 
sprinkled over the eel to heighten its flavor.  more 

 

Grilled eel on rice (アナゴ飯)

It is a local cuisine in Hiroshima.
Charcoal grilled eel seasoned with soy sauce and 
mirin served on boiled rice.
The aroma that rises the cooking eel is mouthwatering.

 

Yobuko Squid (呼子のイカ)

The squid has a sweetness that melt upon the tangue. 

In the finely crafted style of sashimi known as Ikezukuri, the flesh 
of still-living seafood is served.
The freshness is outstanding in fact, flesh is usually still twitching 
while served up on the plate.   more

 

Udon, wheat noodle(うどん)

It is noodle from wheat flour, and is a little thicker than 
Soba noodle.
Udon is eaten either from bowls filled with hot soup, or by 
dipping it into special soup as in the case of Soba. more..

 

Soba, buckwheat noodle(そば)

Long, thin brownish noodle made from buckwheat flour 
to which is added wheat flour, egg, and sometimes yam 
starch. It is eaten either in hot soup, “Kakesoba” or as a 
cold dish, “Morisoba”.In Morisoba, noodle is piled up on 
small flat bascket. more ... 

 

Hakata Ramen at Yatai (博多ラーメン)

Food stalls “Yatai” is one thing to enjoy in Fukuoka
Despite a decline in recent year, there are said to be 
more than 160. The food stalls have all kind of food, but you 
have to try Hakata ramen, usually made with white soup from 
pork bone and thin noodles. more

 

Kawara soba(瓦そば)

literally means a roof tile buckwheat noddle.
The meal is a local cuisine in Kawatana, Yamaguchi prefecture.
The buckwheat noddle which is served on the heated roof tile.
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Dango-jiru (だんご汁)

The meal is a local specialty in Oita.
It is made by boiling flat noodles made from wheat flour 
together with ingredients such as radishes, carrots, 
burdock roots, aroids, and shiitake mushrooms in miso 
flavored dashi (broth). more

 

Typical Japanese breakfast (日本の朝食)

It consist of steamed rice, soybean soup with asari clams, 
tsukune (chicken meatloaf with egg, dried laver seaweed, 
natto ( fermented soybeans) and raw egg mixed 
with steamed rice. more

 

Sake Brewery(日本酒の酒蔵)

There are a lot of Sake brewery where you can visit in Kyushu.

Sake is an alcoholic beverage brewed from rice, koji mold and 
yeast. Its alcohol content ranges from 13% to 16% and its 
quality varies according to its fermentation processes.
more

 


 

About Japan

 

Japan is a destination like no other.


You will find a lot of things which you have never seen,  
never eaten or experienced.

 


 

Cuisines & Beverages  

Japan is a foodie’s paradise, with some of the finest and most varied cuisine
in the world 
Japanese cuisine encompasses the regional and traditional foods of Japan,
which have developed through centuries of social and economic changes.
 more

 

Activities

We offer many activities and fun things to do in Kyushu.
Fruit picking, Canal boat cruise
Japanese cultural experience in Kokura  Castle
Foot bath, Factories tour, visit Sake brewery  more


 

Festivals and Events

Let’s meet real Japan
There are many local festivals throughout Kyushu because almost

every shrine celebrates one of its own.

Most festivals are held annually and celebrate the shrine’s deity or a 

seasonal or historical event. more


 

 

Culture & more about Japan

The culture of Japan has evolved greatly over the millennia, 
from the country’s prehistoric time Jomon period, to its 
contemporary modern culture.
You can find a lot of unique culture and things.   more

 

Excursion & Activities

 

We offer many activities and fun things to do in Kyushu.

 

Canal boat cruise in Yanagawa 

Yanagawa Canal boat cruise is to board a small boat called the Donkobune and slowly go down the river skillfully maneuvered by a boatman with bamboo pole. 

Enjoy a leisurely cruise along the streets and houses which still retain some remnants of castle town.   more


 

Foot bath in Beppu 

Foot bath is called Ashiyu in Japanese and is a public bath in which people can bath their feet. Ashiyu in Beppu set up at Kannawa Onsen. You can easily enjoy

it without having to remove all your clothing, only the feet and leg up to the knee

are immersed.  more


 

Fruit picking

In the harvest time, the northern Kyushu boasts many area with beautiful

fruit orchards.
Fukuoka is one of the leading fruit-producing prefecture in all Japan.

The fruit production in Fukuoka is primarily concentrated in the southern 

Chikugo region such as Ukiha,  Asakura and Kurume.  more


 

Hell tour 

The most exciting experience in Beppu is Jigoku Meguri or (Burning Hell) tour.  
A collection of hot springs where the water bubbles forth from underground,

often with unusual result. more


 

Sake brewery visiting

There are a lot of Sake brewery in Kyushu where you can visit.
Most of brewery have a tasting corner, 
Let’s sample sake.

Sake is an alcoholic beverage brewed from rice, koji mold and yeast.   more 


 

Michino Eki

Michino Eki means Road Station in Japan.

it provodes places for travelers to rest, they are intended to promote local

tourism and trade.
There are local shop where you can but local product such as agricultual products, seafood,
snacks, souvenirs and other goods.  more


 

Night-view 

The world’s most dynamic, magnificent and spectacular Let’s enjoy the breathtaking scenery that you have never seen before.   more


 

Japanese cultural experience in Kokura

Time to enjoy dressing in Kimono, tea ceremony experience, and Rickshaw

riding experience Kokura Castle Garden and Kokura Castle. You can also take

beautiful photographs in this location to provide you with wonderful

memories and recollection of your visit to Kokura.  more 

 


 

KAIZEN

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KAIZEN is one of the most important key word for Japan’s Industrial modernization and

world leading industries. 

 

KAIZEN is the Japanese word for “improvement”. In business, KAIZEN refers to

activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the

CEO to the workers on site. It also applies to processes, such as purchasing and logistics,

that cross organizational boundaries into the supply chain.

 


 

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Onsen resorts

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Kyushu is known as ‘Onsen island’ and there are many Onsen resorts to stop into

while you’re travelling around.

Onsen resorts use water from an actual spring or they boil mineral water.

Many hotels and Ryokan have outside bathes offering spectacular view.
 

 

The featured Onsen resorts in Kyushu

 

Fukuoka-prefecture

 

Harazuru Onsen

A tranquil Onsen Resort near Fukuoka-city and is located on the banks of Chikugo River. 

The quality hot spring is weakly alkaline and sulfur is mixed and has the effect of dropping

old horn and creating beautiful skin.

 


 

Saga-prefecture

 

Takeo Onsen

Takeo has 1200 years history and is located in the western part of Saga-prefecture.

The hot spring temperature is 18 to 52 degrees. Spring quality is smooth with alkaline simple

hot spring.  It is said that the color is colorless and transparent and has an outstanding effect

on recovery from fatigue.

 


 

Ureshino Onsen

Ureshino Onsen is a hot spring town in south-western Saga Prefecture. Its clear Onsen waters

are high in sodium bicarbonate and sodium chloride and feel extremely smooth on skin, giving

rise to its popularity as a “Bihada no Yu” ( beautiful skin waters).

 


 

Nagasaki-prefecture

 

Unzen Onsen

Located in the centre of Shimabara peninsula, at the southwest part of Mount Unzen 

with an altitude of 700m. It is started receiving foreign tourists around the year 1900 when

Kaempfer and Siebold introduced the city to Europe and China. The area was the first

area to be designated as a National Park in Japan in 1934

 


 

The area is also a part of Unzen, located at western foot of Mount Unzen. About 30 Hotels
and Japanese style accommodation are standing along the Tachibana bay and there are
3 public baths where visitor can use.  
 

 

Oita-prefecture

 

Beppu Onsen

Beppu is one of the most famous Onsen Resort in Japan. The popular hot spring town nestle

at the foot of volcanos, Mount Yufu and Mount TsurumiBoasting more than 2,800 hot spring

sources and flowing rate of nearly 137,000 kiloliters per day, Beppu is considered a paradise

of hot springs famous for high therapeutic effects.

 


 

Myoban Onsen

The Onsen resort town where the Yunohana or Alum have been collected since more than

200 years ago.  Myoban means Alum in Japanese.

Myoban is a geothermal area located at an altitude of 400 metre at the middle

Garan mountain and a little away from the centre of Beppu.

 


 

Yufuin Onsen

A beautiful and tranquil Onsen resort representing Kyushu. Yufuin is located about 15 km

west of Beppu and is spreading in the Yufu basin at the mountain foot of Yufu. Onsen resort

life can be enjoyed at the beautiful and tranquil place harmonized with nature in the basin of

mountain hill area.

 


 

Nagayu Onsen

One of the most popular hot spring for foreign tourists, located at the foot of Kuju mountain

range in Oita-prefecture.  The hot spring is known as one of the world’s top carbonate spring.

 

 

 

Sujiyu Onsen

A tranquil Onsen resort at Waita mountain foot of 1,000 metre altitude. It is said that the Onsen

was founded more than 1,000 years ago, and now there are 30 Japanese style accommodations

called Ryokan in there. 

 


 

Kumamoto-prefecture

 

Aso Onsen

One of the must visit tourist destination in Kyushu. The world’s largest caldera and the active

volcano Mount Aso give a lot of excitements. And numerous unforgettable experiences in the rural

area can be made including Onsen, variety of sports and local cuisines.

 


 

Kurokawa Onsen

One of the most popular hot spring resort, located on the northern side of  Mount Aso.

Widely known for its open-air baths, it is one of the best places to enjoy the atmosphere of

old town in Japan, where more than 20 Inns (Ryokan)and gift shops standing in a row

along the Tanoharu River, a headstream of the Chikugo River.

 


 

Hitoyoshi Onsen

Located in the northern part of Kumamoto along Kuma-gawa River. Hitoyoshi is a castle town
once prosperous as a river port, and boasts the ruins of the Hitoyoshi castle and Hitoyoshi
Onsen. The most exiting thing in Hitoyoshi is Kumasawa-kudari that is riding on a boat 
maneuvered by a master polar down the Kuma-gawa River, one of the three fast streams in Japan.
 
 

 

Minamata Onsen

Located in Kumamoto Prefecture, It is on the west coast of Kyushu and faces Amakusa islands.

There are two Onsen resorts ; Yunotsuru Onsen located along the Yuide River in the mountains

and called Mountain Onsen and Yunoko Onsen faces Yatsushiro Sea and called Ocean Onsen.

 

 


 

Kagoshima-prefecture

 

Ibusuki Onsen

It is best known for its steaming sand baths along the beach, where bathers in a yukata, or

Japanese bathrobe get buried in the sand up to their neck.  The sand heated by steam 

containing marine minerals is scientifically proven to have therapeutic effects on neuralgia,

rheumatism, back pain and other ailments.

 

 

 


 

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Michino Eki (道の駅)

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Michino Eki means Road Station in Japan.

This is created a safe, comfortable road traffic environment, and unique, lively spaces.

 


 

Michino Eki provides places for travellers to rest, they are intended to promote local tourism

and trade.

 


 

There are local shop where you can but local product such as agricultural products

(fruits, vegetables, flowers etc. ) , seafood, snacks, souvenirs and other goods.

 

 


 

 


 

Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima

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The First atomic bomb of humanity was used in Hiroshima
The nuclear weapons should never be used again

 

It is the only structure left standing in the area where the first atomic

bomb exploded on August 6 1945.

The Atomic Bomb Dome is the ruin of the former Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall that was destroyed when the first nuclear
weapon, atomic bomb, in human history was dropped by an American
Air Force bomber in 1945.
Because the atomic blast explored almost directly above this spot,
the walls of the building were partially spared from destruction.
The building has been preserved in the same state as is was found immediately after the bombing.
It now serves as a reminder of nuclear devastation and as a symbol of hope
for world peace and the elimination of all nuclear weapons.   
Atomic Bomb Dome, testifying to its tragic history, is also a powerful symbol of Hiroshima’s plea that nuclear weapons should never be used again.
In 1996, the building was listed as a World Heritage Site as both an important 
ruin as a symbol of hope for world peace.

 

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Chikugo Yoshii Hinadoll Festival in 2020

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Hina matsuri, also called Doll’s Festival or Girls’ Day, is a special day in Japan, celebrated

each year on 3 March. A platforms covered with a red carpet-material are used to display a

set of ornamental hina dolls, representing the Emperor, Empress, attendants, and musicians

in traditional court dress of the Heian period.

 

It is an occasion to pray for the well-being and prosperity of girls. It is thought that the festival has its roots

in an ancient purification ceremony, in which dolls were floated down the river, taking all of the girls’ bad

luck with them.

 


 

Yoshii-machi, Ukiha-city Hina doll Festival

 from February 11 through April 3

Main Hina dolls are displayed at Shirakabe Avenue district, where the river is lined by attractive former

warehouses, all with traditional wood and white plaster exteriors. The doll displays of Ukiha usually

feature two types of dolls: okiage (paper cut-outs covered in cotton and wrapped in fabric) and hakobina

(dolls in individual display cases).


 

General information  

Address Yoshii-machi, Ukiha-city, Fukuoka-prefecture
Access

50 minutes by a vehicle from Fukuoka-city

45 minutes by a vehicle from Dazaifu-city

60 minutes by a vehicle from Yanagawa-city

90 minutes by a vehicle from Kitakyushu-city


 

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