Environment tour in Beppu and Yufuin

We operated the Environment tour for Kitakyushu citizen group.

The destinations are Beppu and Yufuin.

September 05, 2025

Yamanami Highway

Yamanami Highway is the Prefectural road Route 11 and one of the most

beautiful scenic driving roads in Kyushu.

The road is connected Yufuin in Oita-prefecture and Minamioguni town in Aso,

Kumamoto-prefecture, the distance is 50 km.

You can enjoy the magnificent natural scenery that changes with the seasons.

August 27, 2025

Arima Christian Heritage Memorial Museum

The Arima Christian Heritage Memorial Museum is a guidance facility showcasing

the history of Christianity in Minami-Shimabara, centered around the Hara Castle Ruins,

a component of the “Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region,” which was

registered as a World Heritage Site in 2018.

August 25, 2025

Shimabara Peninsula Martyrs Memorial Cathedral

This Cathedral is house of prayer for tens of thousands Christians who were martyred

between 1612 and 1658 throughout the Shimabara Peninsula.

t was built in 1997 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the martyrdom of 26

Japanese Saints and the 360th anniversary of the Shimabara Rebellion.

The Cathedral is a beautiful octagonal building with a large octagonal dome.

August 24, 2025

Holy Mary-Kannon of Hara Castle

The world’s tallest wooden Holy Mary statue, with 10 meters in height.

This statue was made by sculptor Oyamatsu Eiji over a period of 40 years and was completed

when he was 90 years old.

August 18, 2025

Iseya, marcket reserch

I stayed Iseya in Obema, unzen for a market research on hotel.

August 17, 2025

Sanno Shrine

Sanno Shrine is located approximately 800 meters away from the ground zero of Atomic bomb.

The Shrine was instantly obliterated by the explosion and the 4000 degrees Celsius heat wave

vaporized nearby trees.

The only thing that remained is the Torii gate standing on a single column, reminding us of the

tragedy that took place.

The surviving trees of Sanno Shrine have become another living demonstration of destruction

and re-growth. Two large camphor trees were scorched, burned and stripped of all leaves by

the Atomic bomb’s shock wave; and yet, despite everything, the trees survived.

The surviving camphor trees are now a symbol of World Peace.

August 14, 2025

Nyokodo, Dr. Nagai Takashi

Dr. Nagai Takashi (3 February 1908 – 1 May 1951) was a Catholic physician specializing in

radiology, an author, and a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. His subsequent life

of prayer and service earned him the affectionate title “saint of Urakami”.

Nyokodo, which is adjacent to the Takashi Nagai Memorial Hall, is Dr. Takashi Nagai’s hospital

room and study. This 2-tatami building was built as a new home for the doctor, with the generosity

of the people of Urakami and fellow Catholics who were left penniless by the atomic bombing.

The doctor named this building “Nyokodo,” meaning “Love your neighbor as yourself,” and spent

his later years here. Dr. Nagai fought the onslaught of leukemia and worked hard to write even

though he was bedridden. From this room of just two tatami mats, the doctor continued to harass

the people of Urakami, writing novels such as “The Chains of the Rosary,” “Leaving the Child,”

“The River of Life,” and “The Bells of Nagasaki.

August 13, 2025

Japanese indigenous religion

It is said that Takachiho is a birth place of Japanese indigenous religion, Shinto. 

There is a story of Shinto origin in the Cave behind of Amano Iwato Shrine, and Amano Yasugawara.

In the story, Amaterasu, the Shinto sun goddess, became so outraged by her brother’s cruel pranks

that she hid herself in a cave, refusing to come out and depriving the world of her life-giving light.

All of the other gods and goddesses gathered to lure her out. They tried everything they could think

of to no avail until one goddess performed an outrageously ribald dance that caused the other gods

to roar with laughter. Amaterasu left the cave to see what all the fun was about, and in doing so she

returned her light to the world.

August 03, 2025

Net fishing experience in Itoshima

We conducted the net fishing experience tour today in Itoshima.

It was beautiful day and many kind of fishes could caught.

August 02, 2025