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Daikanbo
I love the ever-changing landscape of Kyushu. I rode past frost-covered slopes to bubbling hot springs and zoomed through wild yellow fields. After lunch, I came across Daikanbo - a spectacular lookout s...
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Level 5 Stadium
Fukuoka City will be the first Asian city to host the Rugby World Cup in 2019. The location will be here at the Level 5 Stadium - a state of the art football facility located in the Hakata Ward. Cu...
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Nature and Sport trip
On a cold weekend in early December, I did a little tour of Kyushu from Oita to Mount Aso and then south to Miyazaki Prefecture. My trip spanned three days and I stayed in two onsen hotels, at...
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Yunohira Onsen
I can’t say enough about how I much I enjoyed the overnight stay at Ryokan Shimizu. The quiet, mountain location was my idea of a “real Japan” location, just 15 minutes from the hustle ...
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Tourist Train & Shinkansen Experience
Excited about a full day of sightseeing and enjoying some of the best of Kagoshima, I began my trip across Kyushu at Hakata Station at 8:00 am. Not early at all, considering the length of the journey ahe...
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Yufuin
Kinrin Lake in the hot spring town of Yufuin was picture-perfect on the day I was there and full of small groups of smiling tourists enjoying the great photo-op it provided all around. With buildings ris...
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Sengan-en
Sengan-en at first glance is a nice Japanese park by the sea with beautiful greenery; lovely Japanese, Chinese and Western buildings; and traditional Japanese and English gardens with a great view of Sak...
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Agricultural experience
Kagoshima has rich volcanic soil that regularly gets a natural re-charge from the nearby volcano, Sakurajima. It’s practically an unfair advantage compared to places where the minerals in the soil ...
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Guesthouse Sueyoshi
It was dark when I arrived at the Sueyoshi’s home in the countryside just outside of Kagoshima City. For the past five years, the Sueyoshi family has been welcoming school children from cities in A...
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Shikanoshima
To reach Kinin Park on Shikanoshima (Deer Island), you must drive along Uminonakamichi, the road in the middle of the sea, past sand dunes and an amusement park, and cross over an isthmus to reach Uminon...
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