Nagasaki Kunchi 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 (Snake dance), this time dancing all around the city but especially at Suwa Shrine. History of the Festival, after Christianity was harshly suppressed in Nagasaki in 1624, a festival was dedicated to Suwa Shrine, the guardian god of local people. It is believed that Suwa Shrine festival called “Nagasaki Kunchi” and danced were offered to shrine with cooperated of local people in 1634. At the outset, dedicated dance were very simple but gradually became colorful. During Eiho Era (1673-80), a Chinese dance with an exotic flavor offered to the shrine. The Ja-odori or snake dance was first performed in the Nagasaki Kunchi during period 1789-1800. In 1970, the government designated the whole of Nagasaki Kunchi dance including Ja-odori as an Important Intangible Cultural Asset.

Nagasaki Kunchi…の続きを読む

  Ibusuki is an Onsen Resort that is famous for its sand baths, where bathers are buried in naturally heated sand. The town encompasses the southern tip of the Satsuma Peninsula, and the main downtown area is along the coast facing Kinko bay.

Sand bath, in Ibusuki…の続きを読む

  Number of traveller : 5 persons Schedule : April 28 to May 8, 2024  Transportation : Private vehicle with English speaking driver Where to visit : Nagasaki, Shimabara, Unzen, Kumamoto, Takachiho, Aso   Beppu, Yufuin, Yanagawa, Fukuoka What our Customers have to say Hi ‘Takako, Thank you for your enquiry.  We LOVED Kyushu and were so glad we put it into our itinerary. What a beautiful place you live in! The scenery around Aso was spectacular, the hotels were great especially the ones with onsens, we loved the food a highlight being the meal at Obama Onsen. I guess we should have really asked for a guide as well as a driver.  Ken was an excellent and safe driver but were all wanting a lot more information than he could tell us. A wonderful trip, and I will be recommending Kyushu to everyone.

10-Day Kyushu Family Tour (Australian Gu…の続きを読む

  Karate is a martial art developed in the Okinawa, Kyushu, and is art of self-defense  that use no weapons and relies instead on three main techniques; arm strike,  thrusts and kicks. A distinction is made between offensive and defensive tourniquets, which  are modified according to the position of one’s opponent. Today karate  becomes popularity for self-perfection, for cultural reasons, for self-defense  and as a sport.

Martial art, Karate…の続きを読む

  Tamaseseri, a lively New Year’s Festival held on January, at Hakozaki Shrine in Fukuoka-city, including 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. If the sea team wins, a bountiful fishing catch is predicted for the year; if the land team wins a rich harvest is predicted.   

Tamaseseri / wooden ball catching festiv…の続きを読む

  Kimono is the traditional is the Japanese traditional costume.  A material of Kimono is usually silk or cottom. These fays, fewer people wear Kimono. There are various type of Kimono such as Furisode for single lady, formal Kimono for  married women and Yukata for summer.    

Kimono…の続きを読む

  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).

Chikugo Yoshii Hinadoll Festival…の続きを読む

  Hashima coal mining island is an artificial reclaimed island and the site of Japan’s first major undersea coal exploitation (1890) pioneered by Mitsubishi – and host to one of the world’s most extraordinary former mining communities. Hashima Island is located 3 km southwest of Takashima, and it was the success of Takashima that led Mitsubishi to purchase this island – both islands giving access to the same undersea coal deposit. Now Hashima is a ruin called “Gunkanjima”, so called after its resemblance to the silhouette of a battleship.

Hashima Coal Mine  /  Gunkan-jima island…の続きを読む

  The Giant Cantilever Crane is the first electric-powered crane of its type in Japan, imported from Scotland in 1909, which is the oldest surviving one in operation in the world. It can still lift a load of 150 tons and is used to ship heavy goods.

Giant Cantilever Crane…の続きを読む

  Number of traveller : 8 persons, all golfers Schedule : May 5 to 9, 2024  Transportation : Chartered bus Tour attendant : English speaking tour attendant  Where to visit :  Itoshima Sightseeing, Golf at Hisayama Country Club,   Golf at Dazaifu Golf Club   What our Customers have to say We had an enjoyable trip. Thank you, Masa-san. My friends from Eagle Golfers had confirmed their trip with you too.

5-Day Kyushu Golf Tour (Singapore Guests…の続きを読む