The huts open during the season, from end of October to March or April. Kitakyushu-city is one of the best place to enjoy Oyster barbecue including sea foods.     Jan. 07, 2022

Oyster Barbecue hut in Kitakyushu…の続きを読む

  Kyushu is one of the Japan’s major Island with a size of 330km north-south and 240km east-west, and composed of numerous unique and charming regions made by own nature, history, climate and culture.  Kyushu is also one of the oldest part of Japan, and it is believed to have hosted some of first human settlers from other part of Asia. As well there are abundant fantastic hidden gems around popular destinations, and further more there are lot of off the beaten path in the remote areas.    Its biggest city, Fukuoka, one of the county’s largest, and Fukuoka’s metropolitan area has the fourth biggest population national wide.     Geography The island is mountainous, and Japan’s most active volcano, Mt Aso at 1,591 metres, is on Kyushu. There are many other signs of tectonic activity, including numerous areas of hot springs. The most famous of these are in Beppu, on the east shore, and around Mt. Aso in central Kyushu.   Kyushu is a politically defined region that consists of the seven prefectures on the island of Kyushu, plus Okinawa Prefecture to the south. Fukuoka-prefecture, Saga-prefecture, Nagasaki-prefecture, Oita-prefecture, Kumamoto-prefecture Miyazaki-prefecture, Kagoshima-prefecture     Kyushu is the Gateway to Japan Kyushu has accumulated by far the richest experience of early contacts with sophisticated cultures  from the continent and beyond. Japan’s encounters with Chinese civilization, and subsequently  Europe, have all started here in Kyushu. Whenever questions are raised on origin …

About Kyushu…の続きを読む

Japanese indigenous religion, Shinto, has no founder or written doctrine and places a great emphasis on ancestor and nature worship. Japanese with no strong religious beliefs consider religion as traditional customs handed down from ancestors. This has developed great tolerance for other religions. The other Japanese major religion, Buddhist, has the founder, but he was a human, not the absolute, almighty god as that of Christianity or Islam. This has also contributed to Japanese tolerance toward other religions. Those are the reason why Japanese religious orientation is eclectic.   Jan. 02, 2022

Why is Japanese religious orientation ec…の続きを読む

Hatsumode is a religious customer in Japan on New Year’s Day. The first visit of the year to a shrine or temple at New Year’s. Worshippers often visit noted shrines or temples on New Year’s Eve or first of January to pray for happiness and prosperity in the new year. Some of people visit shrines or temples on the first three days of New Year or later during the first week. To buy good-luck charms such as hamaya at the stalls on their way back home.   Jan. 01, 2022

Hatsumode / 初詣…の続きを読む

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