Aso (Kumamoto)
Local Guide
6 elections of power spot at which I'd like to drop in if Aso is visited. From the water source to the shrine.

The Aso area a caldera of the world maximum level is located in the northeast of Kumamoto and where spreads. Spring water, a forest, a ravine and hot spring are also a place the power of the nature which is a big spectacle overflows now including the prairie of volcanic crater and panorama where volcanic smoke rises. The power spot recommended to such Aso is also much. I'll introduce the spot to which I'd like to go by all means from the clear water source to the strange hill and the shrine where you say that there is divine favor.

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The beautiful water source where the heart by which water begins to spring with POKOPOKO is healed

The clarity of the water source is so high that the bottom of the water and moss are even seen clearly.
The clarity of the water source is so high that the bottom of the water and moss are even seen clearly.

There are a lot of water sources where subsoil water in a Aso area gushes in the south Aso village located in the south of a Aso caldera. The place most typical in it, "the Shirakawa water source". These water sources where you circled the circumference in an abundant forest are the first-grade river which flows in Kumamoto-shi and the general water source in Shirakawa, and 60 t per minute of thing water is gushing. A spring in the water source has high clarity, and POKOPOKO and water see the view which begins to spring clear from the bottom of the water. The space where the water is a brook and floats during the trees is some holy atmospheres. A heart is a healed spot in beautiful water and air.

The spring water which was also chosen as "brand-name spring water hundred pieces in Heisei" can be enjoyed fully.

Plastic bottles is brought, and, drawing water. Many people also visit in drawing water from a distant place as well as a local person.
Plastic bottles is brought, and, drawing water. Many people also visit in drawing water from a distant place as well as a local person.

The Shirakawa water source has the history respected lengthily as Kanzui of perpetual youth and longevity and a dispersal of various diseases in spring water in the precinct of "Yoshimi Shirakawa shrine" where a river-god is deified. It's also possible that the Ministry of the Environment is also chosen as "brand-name spring water hundred pieces in Heisei" and draws freely. Water of the mellow taste is the gusto I want to take once by all means by a mineral abundance.
The Shop where the product house which has complete set of souvenir of Aso and making paper Experience which used water from water source form in the site including the place of sweets where the coffee beans put in by spring water can be enjoyed. Charm of spring water can be sensed by the whole body.

The Shirakawa water source
  • The addressKumamoto Aso area south Aso village Shirakawa 2040 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Tateno Station, about 20 minutes
  • Days closedI don't have that.
  • AdmissionNo charge below 100 yen and the junior high school student beyond a high school student (as environment conservation cooperation fund)
  • TEL0967-67-1112 (southern Aso village industrial Tourism Section)
  • ParkingFree
  • MemoBecause the JR Higo-Ozu Station-Aso station is suspended, whole substitution bus service (current as of April, 2020)

A megalith crowd produces with a prairie, beautifully, the strange scenery

The hill where it's also attractive as a photogenic spot. That it was used for photography of a movie.
The hill where it's also attractive as a photogenic spot. That it was used for photography of a movie.

The power spot in Minamioguni-machi for about 35 minutes (I depend on MI NAMIOGU.) by car from JRAso station. Before walking along the thin way in Makino (grassland) and climbing, it's the slightly elevated hill which appears and a megalith group and is the quiet location cut off from the neighborhood. It's possible to enjoy the scenery of 360 time panorama which wishes for Mt. Aso, a KUJUU mountain range, Togamidake (And, see and hold.) and a prairie from a hilltop. The atmosphere of the hill a stone of big and small about 300 equals is mysterious somewhere. The place which floods the strange power which comes to do nothing, relax absentmindedly and have a pain.

Please feel an ancient romance in a magnetic field and senkoku design a stone takes on.

It's also the strange view a needle influences a magnetic field, and that goes wrong when an azimuth magnet is hit against a stone.
It's also the strange view a needle influences a magnetic field, and that goes wrong when an azimuth magnet is hit against a stone.

Whether it isn't ancient remains because this megalith group is like the line which is thought to have been arranged and ties several domestic power spots artificially, an opinion. A megalith also has something by which design like the ancient character is cut and the one which was arranged so that the sun might rise between 2 stones in a summer solstice. There is also a stone with a magnetic field, and that the azimuth magnet borrowed at a reception desk is brought close to a rock, that a needle is around, to confirm the state which spreads. How about feeling a romance to eternal time and antiquity and mystery?

Hill of Oshido stone
  • The addressKumamoto Aso area Minamioguni-machi large section of a town Nakahara MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JRAso station, about 35 minutes
  • Days closedI don't have that.
  • AdmissionStudents over junior high school of 200 yen and a child of 100 yen
  • TELMinamioguni-machi tourist association (0967-42-1444)
  • ParkingFree
  • MemoThe way from a prefectural highway to Parking is very thin, so a person strange to driving is attention.
    Because the JR Higo-Ozu Station-Aso station is suspended, whole substitution bus service (current as of April, 2020)

    The way from a prefectural highway to Parking is very thin, so a person strange to driving is attention.

The tour of three company which can do a good fortune rise and lottery winning prayer

When there is divine favor of fortune of a family prosperity, the "minor power two (in OGU, amount) shrines" wrapped in Mori of a cedar are called.
When there is divine favor of fortune of a family prosperity, the "minor power two (in OGU, amount) shrines" wrapped in Mori of a cedar are called.

Aso area Oguni-machi located in the prefecture north. When it's surrounded 3 better fortune spots in this small town, it's said that good fortune and luck with money are raised. Lesser power Ryokami company" which deifies two pillars of God in the shrine of Takahashi's sign . Tuesday where the 1st reclaimed Ogunigou. The "Mr. river-god in" the zelkova tree water source water springs in the base of a zelkova tree where the 2nd is called an age of the tree for 1000 years, and who has divine favor of better fortune. And the 3rd is heaven of luck of goods "Mr. Kagami KE Ike Ebisu", and royalty's princess throws a hand mirror at this pond in the Heian Period, and the legend to which I prayed for love is left. It's possible to move 3 points on foot. I'll wish blessings while walking a stone pavement at time which prospers as a post-town and the streets where taste is left.

I receive "the money of blessings", and it's a luck rise.

The "mirror KE pond" where you assume that a bronze mirror in the Heian Period is put in the inside
The "mirror KE pond" where you assume that a bronze mirror in the Heian Period is put in the inside

Because there is an anecdote against which the villager who came eagerly was hitting a raffle one after another, a lottery winning prayer person visits the Edo Period and these three companies much, too. Because there were a historical origin and a custom that small change is borrowed from a shrine as "The money of blessings (He didn't surrender.)" when it was Manbai return, when an offering of lesser power Ryokami company was added to capital of business then again, the person who did three companies of coming can also borrow moolah of blessings (five yen coin) at present.
The commemorative stamp in each spot is put on a prescriptive seat, and it's the money of blessings and an exchange at the store of "money exchange place of blessings" where it's in Miyahara shopping area in the town. If it's possible to get blessings, without also forgetting money return of blessings and fee coming, I'll do.

Mr. river-god in the zelkova tree water source
Mr. river-god in the zelkova tree water source
The tour of good fortune three company of a lesser power (in OGU)
  • The addressKumamoto Aso area Miyahara, Oguni-machi 1670 lesser power Ryokami company) MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JRAso station, about 40 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JRAso station, embussment and "in front of lesser power town office" getting off for about 6 minutes on foot
  • Business hours0967-46-3621 (Oguni-machi chamber of commerce and industry)
  • TEL0967-46-3621 (Oguni-machi chamber of commerce and industry)
  • ParkingFree (minor power Ryokami company).
  • MemoThere is three companies of installation in a store around the inkpad of each spot and Ryokami company for a stamp seat of coming.
    Because the JR Higo-Ozu Station-Aso station is suspended, whole substitution bus service (current as of April, 2020)

A living white snake, small shrine in a deified village

There is 2 of company which deifies a living white snake as the divine object in a precinct.
There is 2 of company which deifies a living white snake as the divine object in a precinct.

The small unattended shrine in the location as the base in Mt. Aso and Akamizu in Aso city. It's done by Oiwa in the precinct inside with beginning that people prayed the white snake which lives there and has arrived, and it's introduced in hundreds and maintained by a local person importantly. Mr. 3 white snakes are deified by the snake company in the inside in a hall of worship as the divine object, and they're also able to pray its snow-white form and put in photograph over glass. The rumor that divine favor is here when making it standby screen of smartphone. The form of Mr. holy white snake, as it is seen, it seems that a heart is investigated.

A charm with a cast off skin of the white snake which is made luck with money when there is divine favor.

A garden lantern and an image which model a white snake in an approach to Shrine and a hall of worship. I stroke and pray for luck with money improvement 3 times.
A garden lantern and an image which model a white snake in an approach to Shrine and a hall of worship. I stroke and pray for luck with money improvement 3 times.

Of one pillar and the Sarasvati by which white snakes of the divine object are Seven Gods of Good Luck, usage, said, because, it's said that there is divine favor of luck with money improvement. A worship visitor of lottery winning prayer and the thank you letter from a person by which luck with money improvement and lottery winning materialized in the hall of worship much are stuck much. There is a charm with cast off skins of a white snake, so the person who would like to come near and have in miraculous virtue is right or wrong.
If divine favor of luck with money is received, I'll also feel natural pleasant power abundant in Aso which wraps a shrine much by the whole body.

Akamizu Jiyaishi (I have a dirt water snake and do.), shrine
  • The addressKumamoto Aso city Akamizu 1815 MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Akamizu Station, about 18 minutes on foot
  • Bus DirectionI also take a Limited Express bus "echo number" more than the airport with a Aso bear, than a "in front of Akamizu Station" bus stop, about 18 minutes on foot
  • ParkingFree
  • MemoBecause the JR Higo-Ozu Station-Aso station is suspended, whole substitution bus service (current as of April, 2020)

The place where you can be circled by a big tree of a cedar and feel natural power

The one by which Hosokawa family Godai aim dominance and Tsunatoshi publicity built a hall of worship in 1672 (1672)
The one by which Hosokawa family Godai aim dominance and Tsunatoshi publicity built a hall of worship in 1672 (1672)

One of the shrines there is history in more than 2000 and where it's old even in the Kumamoto. It's located in an ancestor of Aso pioneering and Kita of "Aso shrine" who deified Takeiwatatsunomikoto (Takeiwatatsunomikoto) and is called "Kitamiya" by localness.
An agriculture festival is being a child of Takeiwatatsunomikoto and is deifying 3 gods of sokukametamainochi (it's fast, or, only a ball, fact) other ones said that which have caused an agriculture of Aso, and is also performed much. A stream flows to the approach to Shrine circled by a big tree of a cedar, and a hall of worship for chiku about 300 years is enshrined in a precinct. There is a prince who deified unusual catfish (catfish), too, and it's believed in as agriculture and productive in grains heaven.

I'm impressed with a trunk of Osugi who sets an overwhelming existence sense free.

"Teno's Osugi" who can tell that there was 47 m of height formerly
"Teno's Osugi" who can tell that there was 47 m of height formerly

When I come down to a square on the right side from a hall of worship, a big wooden trunk is deified so that I'm surprised. This is sokukametamainochi planting by hand and "Teno's told Osugi". An age of the tree for 2000 years and a historical origin grew into a precinct formerly, but unfortunately it's in damage of a typhoon in 1991. A part of a trunk and a stump is deified respectively at present. I visit trunks, for, about 14 m of its size and existence sense have that and are highlights. It's possible to touch a trunk and a stump, so you'll share the natural power.

Kuninomiyatuko (KOKUZOU) shrine
  • The addressKumamoto Aso city 2110, Teno, Ichinomiya-machi MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Miyaji Station, about 12 minutes
    It's also a car from the airport with a Aso bear, about 55 minutes
  • TEL0967-22-4077 (Aso shrine)
  • ParkingFree

Shrine in the forest with the mysterious atmosphere

It's in the feeling as if it's invited to the different world, so that steps are advanced to the inside to the inside in a forest.
It's in the feeling as if it's invited to the different world, so that steps are advanced to the inside to the inside in a forest.

The unattended small shrine near the interior in a Aso area and the border between prefectures with Miyazaki-ken Takachiho-cho. That the scenery to which long Sando and garden lantern lead in the deep cedar woods is mysterious, it's in a topic in SNS. More people were that it was also a stage of a cartoon "to grove of light of a firefly", and started to visit.
The trees and grass are wanton around the mossy stone steps, Torii and garden lantern in the season when green is abundant in particular, and the fantastic green world spreads. How about visiting a right or wrong camera for an attendant?

When there is divine favor of a pass and a certain victory, the called big rock is also must-see.

When I stand in the hole, you can find a wind to blow through rattlingly, and it seems to be a natural electric fan.
When I stand in the hole, you can find a wind to blow through rattlingly, and it seems to be a natural electric fan.

When I walk an approach to Shrine with stairs beyond 260 steps for about 10 minutes, a hall of worship with a solemn atmosphere appears. Because a leaf of the Podocarpus Nagi which is a sacred tree (calm) can't be torn in the side easily, it's said that there are a matchmaking and divine favor of prosperity.
It's climbed after worship behind the hall of worship, and it's to "senkoiwa" which is the divine object (UGE TOIWA). A huge rock has a hole of height and width 10m, "A demon broke.", said. When because I go through a big rock, every kind of difficulty is made the symbol over which you can get through, and divine favor of a pass and a certain victory is obtained when I touch this rock. The spot which can sense grand natural power of Aso by the whole body.

Kamishikimi Kumano seat (a bite is seen, ZA of a bear) shrine
  • The addressKumamoto Aso area 2619, Kamishikimi, Takamori-machi MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JRAso station, about 30 minutes
    It's also a car from the airport with a Aso bear, about 45 minutes
  • Bus DirectionHigh-speed embussment and the "Takamori center" are also changed to a bus Shikimi loop of Takamori-machi people at a bus stop from the airport with a Aso bear, "Nakabaru, community hall" bus stop getting off for 2 minutes on foot
  • TEL0967-62-1111 (Takamori-machi policy promotion department sightseeing person in charge of commerce and industry))
  • ParkingFree
  • MemoBecause the JR Higo-Ozu Station-Aso station is suspended, whole substitution bus service (current as of April, 2020)

The later when sightseeing was enjoyed is a hot spring inn in the Aso KUJUU national park, great outdoors and, please spend time of the wrapped cure.

A place by the caldera is flooded with produced great outdoors.

Guest room is separation with with Outdoor hot spring. A sense of togetherness with great outdoors can be felt.
Guest room is separation with with Outdoor hot spring. A sense of togetherness with great outdoors can be felt.

It's also a car from the airport with a Aso bear, about 70 minutes. It's apart from from with Outdoor hot spring which is located in the Aso KUJUU national park of altitude 1000m, and it's only 12 in a site in 8000 tsubo, dotted Hot spring ryokan. Aso caldera by which the world takes pride in its eminent scale. A table of pass is taking the natural material a caldera brought up in as the interior in the tea things which used lava for the material and minor power cedar OGU in Guest room. The luxurious bathing which is while asking twitter of a bird and the Experience programming from which I learn about total KAI Local Flavors which tastes a favor in the earth in Kyushu and an allure of a caldera are wrapped in great outdoors of Aso, and you can spend some time when a heart and a body are emancipated.

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