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Chayanohara Campsite

Chayanohara Campsite

Chayanohara Campsite is a wonderful outdoor spot surrounded by Aso's magnificent nature, where you can enjoy from camping beginners to veterans. At night, the starry sky spreads out, and you will be fascinated by the overwhelming beauty that you can never see in the city. The time spent in great nature while feeling the volcano's energy makes you forget daily fatigue and refreshes your mind and body deeply. A camping experience spent together with nature is the best place for those who want to enjoy Japan's wonderful great nature with their five senses. For travelers who wish to make special...

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Shobuzuka Kofun

Shobuzuka Kofun

Shobuzuka Kofun is a valuable historical site that conveys the historical footsteps of the Aso region to the present, and has been carefully protected as a place where former power holders sleep. In this place, the atmosphere of history where ancient people feared nature and revered it as a sacred thing drifts, giving deep impression to visitors. Around the Kofun, quiet nature spreads out, and you can spend a calm time while feeling the depth of history. For travelers who have deep interest in Japan's ancient history and culture, this place where you can soak in the romance of history...

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Sugayama Terraced Rice Fields

Sugayama Terraced Rice Fields

Sugayama Terraced Rice Fields are places where traditional Japanese agricultural activities remain as beautiful scenery at the foot of Aso. The terraced rice fields that stack in many layers color the mountain surface, and their appearance showing expressions according to the season makes visitors feel Japan's original landscape and brings overwhelming peace. This beautiful scenery is proof of the history in which predecessors cherished nature and lived together, and it gives overwhelming peace to visitors. If you stroll around the terraced rice fields leisurely, you can feel Japan's good old heart and refresh both mind and body deeply. For those...

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Hakoishi Pass

Hakoishi Pass is a historic pass road located in the mountains overlooking Aso's caldera, and is a traffic hub that travelers have crossed since ancient times. The view from here spreads out in a panoramic view where you can overlook the entire view of Aso's magnificent caldera, and you can feel the energy of the volcano and the activities of vast nature on your skin. The view from the pass is especially beautiful at dusk, and the appearance of the setting sun dyeing the caldera golden is fantastic and gives deep impression to visitors. For travelers who wish to think...

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Koike Water Source

Koike Water Source

Koike Water Source is a beautiful famous place for spring water that quietly stands in the rich nature of Aso. Its water surface, which boasts surprising transparency, reflects the surrounding green and gives overwhelming peace to visitors. If you stroll around the water source, the sound of water and the silence of the forest will make you forget the city's hustle and bustle completely, and you can refresh your mind and body deeply. For those who want to feel the importance of Japan's clear nature and the water that is its blessing with their five senses, it is a place...

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Neisei Loop Bridge

Neisei Loop Bridge

Neisei Loop Bridge is a very rare loop-shaped bridge hung as if sewing through Aso's steep mountainous area. You can enjoy Aso's magnificent nature from various angles from this bridge, and the change of scenery during the drive does not make visitors tired. Especially in the season of autumn leaves and fresh green, the bridge melts into the natural scenery and becomes a very photogenic superb view. This place where you can feel the height of the predecessors' civil engineering technology and the ingenuity utilizing the natural terrain can be said to be a particularly impressive spot even among Japan's...

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Tsukimawari Park

Tsukimawari Park

Tsukimawari Park is a wonderful park where you can touch nature spreading in Aso's magnificent caldera. From the park, you can overlook the beautiful appearance of the Aso Five Peaks, and its overwhelming scale and volcano's life force give deep impression to visitors. Flowers of each season color the park, healing visitors from the heart. The beautiful landscape viewed while strolling leisurely in the park is fantastic enough to make you forget the passage of time. For those who want to leave the city's noise, release themselves in great nature, and seek refreshment from the heart, it is the best...

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Aso Mizukake Terraced Rice Fields

Aso Mizukake Terraced Rice Fields

Aso Mizukake Terraced Rice Fields are beautiful original Japanese landscapes spreading at the foot of volcanoes. The terraced rice fields that beautifully color the mountain surface shine golden in the season when rice ears sway, conveying the appearance of Japan's traditional agriculture to the present. This scenery gives overwhelming peace to visitors and makes them feel the wisdom of the history of having lived in harmony with nature by predecessors. If you stroll around the terraced rice fields, you can feel Japan's good old heart and refresh both mind and body deeply. For those who wish to stay away from...

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Mt. Eboshi

Eboshi-dake is a beautiful mountain created by volcanoes, standing steeply in Aso's magnificent caldera. If you climb the mountain trail, a panoramic view that can overlook the whole view of Aso's magnificent caldera spreads out, and its overwhelming scale and volcano's life force deeply impress visiting travelers. In this place where the threat and beauty of nature coexist, you can realize that the earth is alive with your whole body. For those who wish to leave the city's noise completely, release themselves in great nature, and seek refreshment from the heart, it is the best adventure field. If you jump...

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Ikeyama Water Source

Ikeyama Water Source

Ikeyama Water Source is a very beautiful famous place for spring water quietly standing in Aso's rich nature. The water surface, which has surprisingly high transparency and shines blue in the light, never ceases to fascinate visitors. The forest around it has giant trees, and its silent air atmosphere brings overwhelming peace to visiting travelers. If you stroll leisurely around the water source and feel its cool air with your whole body, you can feel your mind and body being purified deeply. For those who wish to experience the importance of Japan's clear nature and water, the source of life,...

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Funonokuchi Water Source

Funonokuchi Water Source

Funonokuchi Water Source is a famous place where clear water springs out in Aso's deep nature, and it gives peace from the heart to visitors. Surrounded by forests and standing quietly, its figure has a hideaway-like atmosphere that makes you forget the city's hustle and bustle completely. The time spent listening to the sound of highly transparent water springing out is a valuable moment to forget daily fatigue and quietly face your own heart. In this place where you can feel the blessings of Japan's rich nature and the importance of clear water with your five senses, why don't you...

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Myojinike Water Park

Myojinike Water Park

Myojinike Water Park is a beautiful park blessed with Aso's clear water sources, and is a spot that provides peace from the heart to visitors. The beautiful pond water is surprisingly transparent, and its harmony with the rich green nature around it is truly Japan's good old scenery. If you stroll slowly through the park, you can feel the workings of nature nearby while listening to the water sound or birds' chirping. For those who want to feel the importance of Japan's clear nature and the water that is its blessing with their five senses and spend a quiet time,...

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Green Road

Green Road is a beautiful road full of greenery that runs through Aso's vast grassland zone. In the surroundings, a magnificent landscape created by volcanic energy spreads, and you can fully enjoy the beauty of nature that changes expressions according to the season. If you enjoy driving or cycling, you can feel Aso's great nature directly with your whole body, and you can get deep refreshment for both mind and body. There are superb view spots scattered along the route, and by stopping and touching its beauty, you can realize the greatness of Japan's magnificent nature again. For travelers seeking...

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Yamabuki Water Source

Yamabuki Water Source

Yamabuki Water Source is a famous place for clear water that springs out constantly in Aso's rich great nature. The harmony of deep forests and waterside is overwhelming and beautiful, giving peace from the heart to visitors. Water with high transparency shines glittering in the light, making you feel the art of great nature. Strolling around the water source and hearing the water sound or spending quiet time in the forest is optimal for staying away from the city's noise and refreshing your mind and body deeply. For those who want to feel nature's blessings and be healed from the...

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Kusabe Yoshimi Shrine

Kusabe Yoshimi Shrine

Kusabe Yoshimi Shrine is an ancient sacred shrine standing dignifiedly in the deep mountains of Aso. In the precinct of this shrine, overwhelming silence and signs of a long history protected by trees drift, bringing deep peace to visitors. The history of prayers continuing from the mythological era conveys the depth of Japan's Shinto culture to the present. The time to fold hands in the quiet air wrapping the precinct will be a valuable moment to face your own heart deeply. For travelers who wish to experience the good old Japanese spiritual world and the Japanese heart that fears and...

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Mizuho Yamada

Mizuho Yamada is a place where you can fully enjoy the charm of Japanese rural landscapes tied to local agriculture in the magnificent nature of Aso. Terraced rice fields that are beautiful and the appearance of the farming village colored by the seasons each make visitors feel Japan's original landscape and make them feel warm and nostalgic. Here, you can deeply taste the blessings fostered by Aso's soil and water through dishes using local ingredients and Japan's traditional agricultural experiences. For travelers who wish to stay away from the city's noise, touch the activities of people living with nature in...

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Takezaki Water Source

Takezaki Water Source

Takezaki Water Source is a famous place for clear water that springs out quietly in Aso's beautiful nature. Surrounded by rich forests and standing quietly, its figure is beauty like a jewel that great nature has hidden. The sound of springing water gives pleasant peace to the ears of visitors and makes them forget the city's hustle and bustle completely. Just by walking around the water source and inhaling its cool, refreshing air, you can feel your mind and body being purified deeply. For those who want to feel the importance of Japan's rich nature and the water that is...

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Milk Road

Milk Road is a very exhilarating and beautiful drive route that runs through Aso's vast grassland zone. The contrast between the green of the grassland and the blue sky is wonderful, and just by driving a car, you can directly feel Aso's great nature. There are several observation points along this route, and you can enjoy Aso's magnificent caldera from various angles, so many photographers and travelers visit. Driving while feeling the wind and touching the energy of nature is the best way to refresh your mind and body. For travelers who wish to jump into the懐 of great nature...

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Daikanbo

Daikanbo is the highest place in Aso's outer rim, and is a superb view spot where you can overlook one of the world's largest calderas. The scenery overlooking from there is a masterpiece panorama woven by the volcano's giant crater and the appearance of the five Aso peaks spreading inside, and it overwhelms all travelers who visit. It is also known as a place where sea of clouds are easily generated, and if you visit in the early morning, you can have a fantastic experience as if you are walking above the clouds. For those who want to feel the...

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Wakusawatsu Water Source

Wakusawatsu Water Source

Wakusawa-tsu Water Source is a famous place for clear water that springs out constantly in the rich great nature of Kumamoto, and is as transparent as crystal glass. Water that has passed through the strata created by Aso's volcano over a long time is truly the blessing of life on earth itself. Its water beauty and the air of the quiet forest around it heal visitors from the heart and are a blissful space that makes you forget the fatigue of daily life. The time spent leisurely near the water source will be a valuable moment to realize the depth...

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Seieizan

Seieizan is a beautiful mountain surrounded by Aso's magnificent nature, and the figure of great nature that shows expressions in each season fascinates visitors. For those who enjoy mountain climbing and hiking, the panoramic view of Aso's caldera and vast grasslands viewed from the top is a superb view that takes your breath away. In this place where the power and silence of nature coexist, you can leave the city's noise and feel the earth's breath directly on your skin. For travelers who wish to release themselves in great nature and refresh, Seieizan can be said to be an optimal...

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Suizenji Jojuen Garden

Suizenji Jojuen Garden

Suizenji Jojuen Garden is a very beautiful and prestigious daimyo garden created in the early Edo period. The garden, centered on a pond where spring water from Aso springs out, and with a Tsukiyama modeled after Mt. Fuji, can be said to be a crystal of traditional Japanese aesthetic sense. Flowers of each season color the garden, giving overwhelming peace to visitors. The beautiful landscape viewed while strolling slowly around the pond is fantastic enough to make you forget the passage of time. This place, where you can feel the harmony of nature that Japan's good old beauty and predecessors...

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Reigando Cave

Reigando is a very historical and mysterious cave located in the premises of Unganzenji Temple, and is known globally as the place where the master swordsman Miyamoto Musashi spent his later years and wrote the famous military strategy book "The Book of Five Rings." The steepness of the rock surface and the silence surrounding it convey the tension and deep thought air of the time when Musashi once sat in Zen and sharpened his mind and body. When you enter the cave, you are wrapped in a mysterious sensation as if the flow of time has stopped, and visiting travelers...

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Shimada Museum of Art

Shimada Museum of Art

Shimada Museum of Art is an excellent museum in Kumamoto City for those who love traditional Japanese art and ancient art. Valuable items such as arms related to Miyamoto Musashi are carefully exhibited, and you can deeply taste their historical stories in a quiet space. In the museum, a rich green garden spreads, and spending time soaking in the lingering memory of appreciating art works while feeling the change of nature according to the season is a blissful moment. For travelers with a heart that respects traditional Japanese beauty and history, it is the best place to spend a quiet...

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