Fukuoka customized tours
Japan KYUSHU Tourist is the specialist of Fukuoka and Kyushu tour in Japan.
We offer various types of customized private tours exclusively for you.
Kyushu is a paradise of Japan travel like no others.
We have prepared Suggested Kyushu tour itineraries that have been created based on
abundant latest local tourist information collected by our own site investigation.
And also the itinerary have been considered the numerous tour results reflecting the
customers satisfactions.
Long duration Kyushu tours in Japan
Kyushu is the paradise of Japan travel like no others.
Kyushu has rich landscapes including nature and diverse cultures including food cultures.
It has a variety of histories all over Kyushu, and nature and urban are harmonized.
You can enjoy a lot of things here in Kyushu what you want to experience.
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Exploring the featured destinations and must see places throughout Kyushu |
Travelling the 5 prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita |
Kagoshima, Chiran, Ibusuki, Satsuma peninsula, Nichinan Miyazaki, Hyuga, Takachiho |
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Saga, Nagasaki, Shimabara, Unzen , Yanagawa, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka |
Amakusa, Kumamoto, Aso Kurokawa, Takachiho Okugungo, Chikugo, Fukuoka |
Asakura, Ukiha, Okugungo Yufuin, Beppu, Usa, Kunisaki Peninsula, Kitakyushu , Fukuoka |
Short duration tours from Fukuoka-city
Many kind of fascinating tourist destinations are concentrated in northern part of Kyushu
and you can enjoy a short journey from Fukuoka-city.
The starting and finishing place of the tour is Fukuoka-city.
If required, the starting place of the tour can be changed to Kitakyushu-city.
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Fukuoka-city is the Heart of Kyushu. this tour introduce historical places and local traditional areas. |
Yanagawa is a Castle town with beautiful canal. Dazaifu is must visit place in Fukuoka-prefecture has 1300 years history |
World leading Environmental Future city, and blessed with spectacular & stunning nature
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Itoshima is a resort town with beautiful dynamic Genkai Sea; seafood gourmet, rural landscape, Sake brewery |
Agricultural industries spreading in the Chikugo plain; beautiful rural landscape, fruit picking, Sake brewery, Onsen |
The city in harmony with foreign countries cultures, there are many fascinating features you can meet |
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Takachiho offers the dynamic nature of Takachiho Gorge, and the birthplace of Shinto which is Japanese indigenouse religion |
This tour takes two major Onsen Resorts in Kyushu, those areas have different features |
The best place for enjoyng the nature in Kyushu, Aso and Takachiho are spreading around Mount Aso |
Other featured Sightseeing tours
Munakata & Fukutsu one-day tour UNESCO World Heritage sites
Yame & Hishino village one-day tour
Nagasaki / UNESCO Hidden Christian Sites
Japanese Christianity has a long history of continuing faith while coexisting with Japanese
traditional religion Shinto and General society. Japan’s unique practice of the Christian faith
continued even during the ban on Christianity.
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Travelling Nagasaki-city including Sotome for the Hidden Christian sites and related sites |
Travelling Nagasaki-city, Unzen and Shimabara where was the site of Shimabara Rebellion |
Travelling Nagasaki-city, Sotome, Unzen, Shimabara, Amakusa and Hirado
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UNESCO Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution sites
Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining are a group of historic sites that played
an important part in the industrialization of Japan in the Bakumatsu during National
isolation period and Meiji periods, and are part of the industrial heritage of Japan.
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The birth place of Steel Industry in Japan and contributed to the development of the Japanese industry modernization |
The origin of Japan’s modernization. Nagasaki contributed for Shipbuilding and Coal Mining |
To learn how Japan has become the world’s most industrialized country in the short period |
Study tour in Kitakyushu-city
Kitakyushu-city is the best place in Japan for Study tour of Environmental and Industrial issues.
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Kitakyushu-city is the most advanced city in Japan for solid waste management and recycling |
Kitakyushu-city is promoting the low carbon society in Asia taking leadership as the Environmental Future City. |
KAIZEN is the most important key word for Japan’s modernization and world leading industries |
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You can also contact us by e-mail at info@japan-kyushu-tourist.com
And we would love to chat about your travel plans on the phone as well,
please ring our office a call in English Tel : +81-93-521-8897
Tour results
We are offering various types of tours, and the tour results up to now are shown links below.
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Ajimu Winery
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Ajimu Winery is striving to further improve research on cultivation of new grape varieties
and distilling technologies with the aim of becoming one of the best wineries in Japan.
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Location of Usa & Ajimu
General information
| Address | 798 Shimoge, Ajimu, Usa-city, Oita-prefecture |
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40 minutes by a vehicle from JR Usa station 40 minutes by a vehicle from Beppu 30 minutes by a vehicle from Yufuin 40 minutes by a vehicle from Bungo-takada-city 50 minutes by a vehicle from Nakatsu-city 80 minutes by a vehicle from Kitakyushu-city 120 minutes by a vehicle from Fukuoka-city |
| Open hours |
9:00 to 16:00 |
| Admission fee |
No fee is required |
| Days closed | Tuesday, New year holidays |
Your equiry can be sent by selecting the Enquiry Form link below.
You can also contact us by e-mail at info@japan-kyushu-tourist.com
Tel : +81-93-521-8897, Fax : +81-93-521-8898
Address : AIM buiding 6th floor, 3-8-1 Asano, Kokura-kitaku, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture
Usa Shrine
One of the most beautiful Shrine in Japan, the head shrine of Hachiman Shrine that is
composed 44,000 shrines that dedicated to the Hachiman Deity.
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Exploring the shrine
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Main gate, Torii |
2nd gate, Torii |
Chozusha, purification place |
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Chozusha, purification place |
To purify |
Dedication of Sake |
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Approach to the Shrine |
Shrine Gate |
Hachiman Deity |
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Lantern |
Gourd for good fortune |
Omikuji, Fortune telling paper |
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Shrine main building |
Sacred tree |
Lantern for Hachiman Deity |
Location of Usa & Ajimu
General information
| Address | 2859 Minami-Usa, Usa-city, Oita-prefecture |
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50 minutes by a vehicle from JR Beppu 50 minutes by a vehicle from Yufuin 15 minutes by a vehicle from Bungo-takada-city 40 minutes by a vehicle from Nakatsu-city 80 minutes by a vehicle from Kitakyushu-city 110 minutes by a vehicle from Fukuoka-city |
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April to September : 5:30 to 21:00 October to March : 6:00 to 21:00 except for January 1 to 3 |
| Admission fee |
No fee is required |
| Days closed | No closing days |
Your equiry can be sent by selecting the Enquiry Form link below.
You can also contact us by e-mail at info@japan-kyushu-tourist.com
Tel : +81-93-521-8897, Fax : +81-93-521-8898
Address : AIM buiding 6th floor, 3-8-1 Asano, Kokura-kitaku, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture
Usa & Kunisaki peninsula one-day tour
Usa including Kunisaki peninsula is located eastern part of Oita-prefacture. If you want to
meet real Japan and Cool Japan, we really recommend to visit this region. You can feel
Japanese mind in the Japan’s local landscape. And also you can enjoy many type of local
Cuisines and local specialties.
Since ancient time the Kunisaki peninsula has been home of Kyushu’s prominent Usa Shrine,
influencing the surrounding hills and valleys with Buddhist culture. Although this is a Shinto
shrine, it has long been holy ground to both Shinto and Buddhist activities, and the Kunisaki
Mountains and valleys were often chosen by monks as practice ground for meditation.
Location of USA and Kunisaki peninsula
Tour Conditions
The tour is the private tour exclusively for your group.
・Minimum number : 2 person
・Maxum number : 30 person
・English speaking tour attendant escorts your journey to produce a pleasant trip.
・Chartered vehicle is utilized as per number of person.
Itinerary
8:00 Depart Fukuoka-city
Transfer to Usa using Kyushu highway and Higashi-Kyushu highway, 2hours & 15minutes
Exploring Usa Shrine
Transfer to Kunisaki Peninsula
Exploing Bungotakada Showano Machi
Lunch at Featured Restaurant Fukinoto
Exploring Kunisaki Paninsukala; Fuki-ji temple, Maki odo, Onieno sato
Transfer to Fukuoka using Higashi-Kyushu highway and Kyushu highway, 2hours & 30mimutes
17:30 Arrive at Fukuoka-city
Where to explore
One of the most beautiful Shrine in Japan, and is the head shrine of Hachiman Shrine that
is composed 44,000 shrines that dedicated to the Hachiman Deity.
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Torii Gate, entrance to the Shrine |
Approach to Shrine |
Shrine main building |
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Located in Ajimu basin |
Variety of domestic and imported Wines |
Enjoy tasting of sample wines |
Showa is the era that lasted till about 30 years ago in Japanese history, Bungo Takada was
the most prosperous in Kunisaki Peninsula for over 300 years from the Edo period up to 1900.
Here remains various old structures and remnants of regional Japanese.
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Shopping street |
Red post |
Showa Roman Gura |
The temple is a Tendai Buddhist temple located on the slopes of Mount Futago. The temple was
established in 718 and the temple building is the oldest extant wooden structure in Kyushu.
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Entrance of the Temple |
Stone lantern |
The oldest Temple building |
Located in the precincts of Fuku-ji temple, the local cuisines can be enjoyed such as Bungo beef,
Dangojiru, Soba noddle as well as Special meals used locally harvested ingredients.
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Welcome to Fukinoto |
Japanese style restaurant |
Soda noddle making experience |
The resort park features a beach, a campsite, restaurant and more. The entire premises gets
painted beautifully with colors of each and every seasonal flower in season.
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Beach |
Seasonal flower premises |
Sunflower |
Hewn in a rock Mt. Tahara are two of largest Buddhist stone carvings in all Japan. A Fudo-myu-o
8 meter in heigt and Dainich-nyurai 6.8 meter height. Said to have been carved in the Heian period,
they have received government designation as Important Cultural Properties.
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Entrance |
Daiichi nyorai |
Fudo myoou |
The temple houses nine Buddhists images said to be masterpieces of the Heian period,
including the Maki-Odo Seated Amida Nyorai (Amitabha). Figure and statues of the Four
Devas. All are designated as important national cultural properties.
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This district was once considered the most important estate of Usa Shrine. It has been
ascertained from ancient documents that the rural landscape seen today has remained
unchanged since Heian period. Now included this are, Kunisaki peninsula is listed on
the World Agricultural Heritage.
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World Agricultural Heritage |
Paddy field |
Farmers houses |
Your equiry can be sent by selecting the Enquiry Form link below.
You can also contact us by e-mail at info@japan-kyushu-tourist.com
And we would love to chat about your travel plans on the phone as well,
please ring our office a call. +81-93-521-8897
Tour results
We are offering various types of tours, and the tour results up to now are shown links below.
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Oita-prefcture travel guide
Oita-prefecture is on the north-eastern section of Kyushu.
It is bordered by Miyazaki-prefecture to the south, and Fukuoka-prefecture and Kumamoto–prefecture
to the west. The prefecture is a representative Onsen Resort area in Japan, total boasting hot spring
sources and hot spring flowing volume are both Japan’s largest.
Most recommended Onsen Resorts are Beppu and Yufuin.
Location of Oita-prefecture
Where to Explore
Onsen Resort where the largest hot spring yield in Japan. The popular hot spring town nestle at the
foot of volcanos, Mount Yufu and Mount Tsurumi. Boasting 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.
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A beautiful and tranquil Onsen Resort, 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.
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Nature-blessed region at Ono River basin, the northern part is surrounded by Aso & Kuju Mountains.
Okubungo consists of Takada, Kuju, Kusu,Kokonoe, Bungo-ono and Ogata.
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Located at the base of Kunisaki peninsula and spreading around Usa Shrine.
Since ancient time the Kunisaki peninsula has been home of Kyushu’s prominent Usa Shrine,
influencing the surrounding hills and valleys with Buddhist culture. Although this is a Shinto shrine,
it has long been holy ground to both Shinto and Buddhist activities, and the Kunisaki Mountains
and valleys were often chosen by monks as practice ground for meditation.
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Rural area centered on mount Futago, pilgrimage, trekking, onsen, local cuisines can be enjoyed.
Kunisaki peninsula began to develop 1,300 years ago as a sacred relgious ground influenced by
by mountain and nature worship, Buddhism, and Usa shrine rising in the region.
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A small city on the north coast of Oita-prefecture, just east of its border with Fukuoka-prefecture.
During the Edo Period of Japanese history, Nakatsu was a mid-sized domain, and the town itself
has recently expanded to include outlying towns and districts and now comprises almost 500 square
kilometers with a population of almost 85,000.
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Your equiry can be sent by selecting the Enquiry Form link below.
You can also contact us by e-mail at info@japan-kyushu-tourist.com
And we would love to chat about your travel plans on the phone as well,
please ring our office a call in English Tel : +81-93-521-8897
Tour results
We are offering various types of tours, and the tour results up to now are shown links below.
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Usa & Ajimu travel guide
Usa area including Ajimu are located at the base of Kunisaki peninsula and spreading
around Usa Shrine.
Since ancient time the Kunisaki peninsula has been home of Kyushu’s prominent Usa Shrine,
influencing the surrounding hills and valleys with Buddhist culture. Although this is a Shinto shrine,
it has long been holy ground to both Shinto and Buddhist activities, and the Kunisaki Mountains
and valleys were often chosen by monks as practice ground for meditation.
Exploring Usa & Ajimu
The head shrine of Hachiman Shrine that is composed 44,000 shrines that dedicated to the
Hachiman Deity. Emperor Ojin, who was deified as Hachiman-jin (the tutelary god of warriors),
is said to be enshrined in all the sites dedicated to him; and the first and earliest of these was
at Usa in the early 8th century. The Shrine is was founded in 727.
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Torii Gate |
Approach to Shrine |
Shrine main building |
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Winery |
Wines |
Tasting the wines |
Scenic beauty
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Sen Cliffs |
Higashi-shiya Waterfall |
Suzai Waterfall |
Cool Japan
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Fukami Five Story Pagoda |
Trowel Painting |
Trowel Painting |
Futaba-no-sato Museum, Sumo Grand Champion Futabayama Museum
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Senzai Farm Garden
250 wisteria flowers bloom at the most largest garden in Kyushu, 200 roses bloom from May
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Wisteria flower |
Tea Plantation |
Rose Garden |
Location of Usa & Ajimu
Your equiry can be sent by selecting the Enquiry Form link below.
You can also contact us by e-mail at info@japan-kyushu-tourist.com
And we would love to chat about your travel plans on the phone as well,
please ring our office a call in English Tel : +81-93-521-8897
Tour results
We are offering various types of tours, and the tour results up to now are shown links below.
Tailor-made tour Study tour Golf tour