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.

 

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Exploring Usa & Ajimu

 

Usa Shrine

 

Torii Gate

Approach to Shrine

Shrine main building

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Ajimu Winery

Winery

Wines

Tasting the wines

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Scenic beauty

 

Sen Cliffs

Higashi-shiya Waterfall

Suzai Waterfall

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Cool Japan

 

Fukami Five Story Pagoda

Trowel Painting

Trowel Painting

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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​

Wisteria flower

Tea Plantation

Rose Garden

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 Featured tours related to Usa and Ajimu 

 

Usa & Kunisaki peninsula one-day tour

Deoart Fukuoka-city →　Exploring Usa Shrine　→　Bungotakada Showano Machi

Exploring Kunisaki Paninsukala; Fuki-ji temple, Maki odo, Onieno sato

Arrive at Fukuoka-city 

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6 days North-East Kyushu tour

Where to Explore  

Fukuoka → Chikugo region (Asakura, Ukiha) → Okubungo （Kokonoe, Kuju, Bungo-ono

Takeda) → Yufuin → Beppu → Usa → Kunisaki Peninsula → Kitakyushu → Fukuoka  

 

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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Location of Usa & Ajimu

 

Usa & Kunisaki peninsula one-day tour

 

Usa including Ajimu & 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.

 

 

  

 

Tour condition

Start and end of the tour is Fukuoka-city

English speaking guide : local experienced and knowledgeable guidese escorts the tour

Chartered vehicle is utilizes : jumbo taxi or bus as per number of pax

 

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 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 

 

Note : Any other places can be arranged considering season or your preferences.

 

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 Where to explore

 

 Usa 

 

Usa Shrine

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. 

Torii Gate, entrance to the Shrine

Approach to Shrine

Shrine main building

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 Kunisaki Peninsula 

 

Showa no machi

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.

Shopping street

Red post

Showa Roman Gura

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Fuki-ji temple

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

Entrance of the Temple

Stone lantern

The oldest Temple building

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Restaurant, Fukinoto

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.

Welcome to Fukinoto

Japanese style restaurant

Soda noddle making experience

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Nagasaki-bana Cape

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.

Beach

Seasonal flower premises

Sunflower

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Kumano Magaibutsu

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.

Entrance

Daiichi nyorai

Fudo myoou

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Maki Odo

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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Tashibu-no-sho

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.

World Agricultural Heritage

Paddy field

Farmers houses

 

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Usa Shrine

 

 

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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

 

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Ajimu Winery

 

 

 General information  

 

Address	798 Shimoge, Ajimu, Usa-city, Oita-prefecture
Access	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

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