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Kumamoto castle

Meijo I keep watching a town in Kumamoto for more than 400 years where

Kiyomasa Kato who laid the foundation of Kumamoto's nation building. At localness, "Kiyomasa, I don't make be official.", as the "Kumamoto castle" Kiyomasa built is enjoying and is ranked as one of Japan three Meijo.

The feature of the Kumamoto castle is a vast site as 5.3km around 98 ha of castle area. And a roof of the elegant Chinese gable (for vanity, bran) distributes a roof of the Irimoya roof gable (for IRI fog, bran) to a plover gable (for Chidori, bran) and other two sides in two sides in a donjon, and is put on north and south of the top floor. The nickname which is "soldier return" because even a warrior can't climb Ishigaki where it can also be said the biggest feature easily by layout of original inclination. It's possible to peep at pride of the expert of construction of a castle and Kiyomasa Kato who concentrated modern technology of engineering works in at that time and construction.

History of the Kumamoto castle filled in trouble and prosperity is read and solved from display.

The Kumamoto castle which suffered enormous damage such as fall of a stone wall and a fall of a roofing tile in a donjon resumes opening to the public inside the donjon from June of 2021 via restoration construction by Kumamoto Earthquakes in 2016. A colorful showpiece can be installed and learn the pace from building at that time to the today through a pattern and a picture in the donjon current as of 2023. Many highlights are filling in the special tour aisle where you can wish for the situation that rehabilitation is developed from an earthquake disaster from neighborhood.
Characteristics of Kumamoto is itself for the common name to which a street car runs and the landscape which looks up at a castle from a train street (number 28 of prefectural highway).

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Kumamoto castle is the symbol which is pride of inhabitant of a prefecture and is great. Yudai of Kumamoto castle can also wish for the magnificent form from a "OMO5 Kumamoto by Hoshino Resorts" one "uneven terrace".

Kumamoto castle

• Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto Chuo-ku inner citadel 1-1 MAP
• Kumamoto City Streetcar "Kumamotojo-Shiyakushomae Station" vanity for about 10 minutes on foot
• Riding ground of a cherry tree "and" shirosaien get off a bus (Kumamoto castle tour bus "pewter Gurin") ride from JR Kumamoto Station, immediately.
• 9:00-17:00 (last entrance 16:30)
• December 29 (There is a possibility of the change.)
• Admission It's smaller than a high school student 800 yen, a* junior high school student of 300 yen and preschooler no charge.
• 096-352-5900 (Kumamoto castle overall office)
• Payment required

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Suizen-ji Garden

The scenic garden where Higo Hosokawa culture is told soon

The tour garden designated as national place of scenic beauty and historic site. It's said to be a first that Kumamoto feudal clan first seigneur and Tadatoshi Hosokawa liked this place where clear water springs kindly and built a restaurant in 1632 (1632).

It's garden beauty like a painting that it's suddenlying come into view when Ayumi is advanced in the park. Tsukiyama who models Mt. Fuji and the well-kept trees are distributed centering on the pond where subsoil water of Aso gushes, and you're also enjoying as a place by the citizen's relaxation from elegant appearance and clear air of whole.

Beauty of the spring water and a vegetable expression in each season color walk.

There is also an area where the flower peculiar to Kumamoto by whom "Mr. Noh" and also the Higo camellia and the Higo composite plant by which a Shinto Ceremony Noh play is offered up to a grand festival in the spring and autumn in addition to "overflow shrine" when Hosokawa family successive generations seigneur is deified are called Rikka Higo (RO or) blooms in the park, with freeness, walk can be enjoyed. The view in the garden judged from "Initiation yukikan of all ages (Thick, oh, of JU which doesn't go out, oh.)" reconstructed in (1912) in the Kyoto gosho in 1912 is also famous for a beautiful thing specially at the inside.

Since calling around the end of March-beginning of April, the cherry tree tree planted along a promenade is in full bloom. A garden is dyed in light pink, and beauty of the scenery is also much more.

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To receive green tea and a snack in initiation yukikan all ages of a quiet residential architecture study-room style. It's also recommended to have time slowly while looking at a garden.

Suizen-ji Garden (make, still, JIJOUJUEN)

• Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto Chuo-ku 8-1, Suizenjikoen MAP
• From the Kumamoto City Streetcar "Suizenjikoen" station, about 3 minutes on foot
• 8:30-17:00 (last entrance 16:30)
• Open everyday
• More than 16 years old, 400 yen and 6-200 yen for 15 years old
• 096-383-0074
• I don't have that.

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Shin-machi and Furumachi

Elijah of distinctive 2 who prospers as a castle town

A "Shin-machi, Furumachi" area located between the Kumamoto castle and the Kumamoto Station leaves the past trace deeply at the castle town Kiyomasa Kato made with Tsuiki of "Kumamoto castle".
The area where it's located in Shin-machi in front of the Kumamoto castle and also unusual by the whole country where merchant's town was intermingled with a Samurai residence. The long-established store where the business is continued is also here and there at present such as the medicine wholesale store which continues from 1830 's "Yoshida Shokado" and a manufacturing store of soy sauce and fermented soybean paste of 1715 year (in 1715) foundation "Hyogo shop main store". There are Sakamoto Ryoma and Saigo Takamori and the "visitor shop mark" etc. to which you say that I stayed overnight, and when going around on foot, you can know Kumamoto's history deeply.

The landscape of the castle town where the history now still also keeps changing from which is here

On the other hand, the subdivision of town of "Kazucho one temple" which distributes a temple to the grid checkerboard-like center and circles its turn by Machiya is the feature in Furumachi. Defense of an iron wall by an idea of Kiyomasa Kato who aims at making the temple a defense base in case of an emergency. When walking a town, the remarkable subdivision of town can be sensed.
The cafe and the shop where Machiya was used are established one after another at present. "Hayakawa depot" in the former brewery built for early years of Meiji era evolves into event space in a gallery and a shop for merchant family construction of registered tangible cultural property "Nishimura house". A tour guide by a local guide can be received and feel taste in a castle town carefully by preliminary reservation, too.

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There are much Machiya, temples and shrines and place where Ishibashi feels the past remains. There are also a cafe and Restaurant where Machiya was used, and green tea and a meal can be enjoyed in the retrospective atmosphere.

Shin-machi and Furumachi

• Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto Shinmachi, Chuo-ku and others MAP
• Shin-machi area: From a streetcar "Shin-machi", immediately.
  Furumachi area: From a streetcar "Gofuku-machi", immediately.
• Inquiry about a town walk guide
  Shin-machi area Telephone: 096-324-4488 (Higo inlay Hikari Suke)
  Furumachi area TEL:096-355-0601 (an at, bridge) https: //jokamachi.com

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Kawaramachi textile wholesaler district

The Showa when time stopped at all is to the retrospective world.

Sign of a row house, a tin roof and latten which crowd a small aisle. This place where I have the atmosphere at which time stopped prospered as a textile wholesaler district formerly.

After receiving the golden age as a wholesale district at the common building built after disappearance in a market of street stall trade after the war originally, fiber traders moved, and a vacant house stood out. But a cafe, a grocery store and a gallery move in recent years, and a crowd restores a little. The person who goes is increasing from photogenic retrospective space and best existence sense by the spread of SNS.

Dearly, new photogenic space

A renovation in a building and repair are piled up at present, and the emporium and the office with about 20 houses of abundant individuality are working. To take a walk while walking along a thin passage freely would also be fun.

Ko burns and brews original air and culture a little at the place which was a shutter district. Wherever even every corner cut off, Akikazu who makes a picture feels the retrospective world is wide. How about extending the journey in case of right or wrong castle town walk in one corner of "Furumachi" in a Kawaramachi textile wholesaler district?

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The retrospective shopping area I keep living from 1955 where. Since it'll be now, it's a photo spot known to people in the know. A strange and nice aerial sense attracts many people.

Kawaramachi textile wholesaler district

• Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto Chuo-ku Kawaramachi MAP
• Streetcar "Kawaramachi" vanity for about 2 minutes on foot
• I don't have that.
• Preliminary application is necessary from Instagram in case of photography of more than 2 people.

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Restaurant park in a mountain pass

The restaurant called a stage of a Natsume Soseki work "camping out" is reconstructed.

The mountain which symbolizes Kumamoto-shi "Kinpu-san". It's said that the restaurant which was at this place is a stage of a phrase of a book "camping out" "Hey, I spoke, but, there are no answers." through Torikoetouge where a great writer and Soseki Natsume are in Kinpu-san formerly.
Whole is maintained as "restaurant park in a mountain pass" at present, and a restaurant of the said book is reconstructed. Material of Soseki is exhibited for free of charge as a reference library inside the restaurant on a thatched roof, and is exhibited. There are a pit and a Goemon bathtub and it's possible to ask and know old living.

Kumamoto local specialty*, soup can also be tasted.

After being flooded with Soseki Natsume's world at a reference library, I'll fill a stomach with Kumamoto local specialty. Local cuisine* which is Kumamoto before coming down stairs from a reference library, there is a store where soup can be tasted "it's a restaurant in a mountain pass, soup and". It's the one of the local specialty, soup is one which added noodles-like dumpling with a lower back of hand-made () to the soup stock by which a soy sauce base together with chicken bone and seaweed is simple and has the good body. Gusto of hot DAGO soup is boiled by an iron pan after an order, and permeates. Local farm produce and souvenir are being sold in the store.

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A restaurant in a restaurant park in a mountain pass was reconstructed, but there is "restaurant trace in Torikoetouge" at the place I advanced towards west for about 1 minute on foot from here. Only the well used then is left at present, and it's possible to touch the image in at that time only a little.

Restaurant park in a mountain pass

• Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto Nishi-ku 5-4, Kawachimachitake MAP
• It's a car from JR Kumamoto Station, about 20 minutes
• From Sakuramachi bus terminal, a ride and "in front of restaurant park in a mountain pass" getting off walking, immediately.
• Restaurant in a mountain pass Shiryokan Museum 9:00-17:00.
  It's a restaurant in a mountain pass, soup and 11:00-17:00
• Tuesday (in case of a holiday, the next day) and New Year's
• Inspection no charge
• Shiryokan Museum 096-277-2157.
  Shop 096-277-2154.
• Free

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Soul rock cave

The cave where Musashi Miyamoto recorded the tactics note which is compilation "Book of Five Rings"

The cave in the precinct of "cloud rock Zen temple" where I pause in the foot of a mountain in Kinpu-san. A skilled swordsman and Musashi Miyamoto were received as a guest from Kumamoto feudal clan first seigneur and Tadatoshi Hosokawa and spent 5 years in the sunset by Kumamoto. And it's learned about by spending the previous 1 year and a half when they pass away by a cloud Kazari Zen temple, shutting oneself up in a cave and writing a tactics note "Book of Five Rings".

To the extent the soul rock cave which was covered by the trees overgrown luxuriantly up is very mysterious, and the force of the cave nature produced is overwhelmed. The statue of Goddess of Mercy learned about by a name of Iwato Kannon is enshrined in the cave. How about driving expectation in Musashi where I'm training myself because it's possible to enter the inside?

"Gohyaku-rakan" where an arhat stone statue equals a rocky mountain in a row is also magnificent.

Merchant Fudda shop Gihei in Kumamoto can write the time of 24 years on the rocky mountain in the middle of going to a soul rock cave, about 200 years before, and "Gohyaku-rakan" offered up is enshrined. The state in which a stone statue different in the form that I sit down and an expression equals a rocky mountain in a row is glory, and it's solemn and miraculous virtue is producing the miraculous atmosphere.
The display of the copy of a hanging scroll and a Book of Five Rings Musashi drew including the singlestick used by "war in Ganryujima" by which Musashi dueled with Kojiro Sasaki in a precinct in a cloud rock Zen temple. That Musashi fan won't be, there are many highlights.

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For ups and downs to tend to be slippery much, a precinct recommends to go with the shoes used to walking.

Soul rock cave

• Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto Nishi-ku 589, Matsuomachihirayama MAP
• It's a car from JR Kumamoto Station, about 30 minutes
• From Sakuramachi bus terminal, a ride and "Iwato Kannon, entrance" getting off for about 20 minutes on foot
• 8:00-17:00
• Open everyday
• Adult of 300 yen and below the high school student of 200 yen and the junior high school student of 100 yen
• 096-329-8854 (cloud rock Zen temple)
• Free

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Sauna and natural hot spring Hot water RAKKUSU

Western sacred place in the sauna world where SAUNA in the whole country is attracted

Sauna Property which represents obvious Kyushu in the sauna fancier. The sauna which has abundant Bali ESHON and the deep cold-water bath with which even the head can be flooded are in equipment of the substantiality which can be satisfied with "completion" best for the reason called a western sacred place.

A sauna is 3 in the "classic sauna" set as about 90 ℃ and "big Aso large-scale eruption meditation sauna" of the "meditation sauna" SERUFUROURYU can also enjoy at the space which calmed down and the steam type as which low temperature was set humidly. It can be chosen according to the taste and the feeling, and it can be satisfied with charm in a sauna slowly.

The body which was the natural water which got cold in a linear quarter and was flushed by a sauna, cool down

After it was satisfied with a sauna, it's to the cold-water bath for which subsoil water of Aso was used abundantly. The depth by which invert elevation 171cm and a female cold-water bath are 153cm and the water depth at which a first person is surprised certainly is also an attraction for a male cold-water bath as well as good of the water quality. It's said to be NG that even the head is flooded, but the cold-water bath of almost all of Property is just no problem here. Enough soft spring water wraps the body by which even every corner were steamed at a sauna easy per a surface. When sensing once, I should feel like visiting with the twice and three times.

It's Kumamoto-shi where everything of a tap water source is served by natural groundwater also to stick to the quality of the cold-water bath as well as the sauna, well. I'll be bathed in Kumamoto's charm by the whole body and heal fatigue of travel.

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"OMO5 Kumamoto by Hoshino Resorts" then, to the extent there is a checked guest, too,after I come near to here. There is also Dining Area and the menu which could think what a dish which matches after the bath was can be enjoyed.

Sauna and natural hot spring Hot water RAKKUSU

• Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto Chuo-ku 722, Honjomachi MAP
• From JR Heisei Station, about 7 minutes on foot
• 24 hours (8:00-10:00 can't take a bath for cleaning.)
• Open everyday (There is maintenance closure twice a year.)
• Bathing An adult of 900 yen-and a dwarf of 300 yen.
  Free course (bathing, towel inside of the building arrive and the 2nd floor pay space Restaurant use) An adult of 1650 yen-and a dwarf of 300 yen
• 096-362-1126
• Free

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Yakumo Koizumi Kumamoto former residence

I can ask the way of living of the author and Yakumo Koizumi who loved Japan.

Yakumo Koizumi who knows as an author of a ghost story "ear nothing Kaoru, one" "snow fairy" (Lafcadio Hearn). When assigning as an English teacher of the fifth advanced junior high school where Yakumo is a record of Kumamoto University in 1891 (1891), it's preserved as museum at the house where I spent the first 1 year.
Dissolution restored the present building on the occasion of removing and reconstruction in 1993, the image by which the inside is at that time, just as it is. There are also a desk and a chair used habitually and also a household altar which struck and prayed clapping hands (by chicken) every morning, and Japanese culture and the way of living in Kumamoto in Yakumo where a heart is loved deeply are felt vividly.

The work invented from a life under Kumamoto is also a lot.

In the Kumamoto life for about 3 years, "the Japanese image which isn't learned about" and, "from eastern country", etc., Yakumo where many works were written including the work invented from Experience in Kumamoto. It's said that he who loved Japanese culture and closed a life by Japan with the family by Japan was Japanese than Japanese.

You can even know the previous life and the growth etc. which pass to Japan deeply including his life at Kumamoto and Japan at museum. It's also recommended to drop in at the way of the shopping because it's in a center of the downtown area.

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Tourist attraction closest from "OMO5 Kumamoto by Hoshino Resorts". When sitting down on the seat where Yakumo sat down, comfortable time passes. When I speak to Staff/staff member, the talk which concerns Kumamoto as well as Yakumo can also be heard.

Yakumo Koizumi Kumamoto former residence

• Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto Chuo-ku 2-6, Anseicho MAP
• Streetcar "main street quarter" vanity for about 3 minutes on foot
• 9:30-16:30
• Monday (in case of a holiday, next weekday) and New Year's
• Inspection no charge
• 096-354-7842
• I don't have that.