Culture Aso Shrine Aso Shrine is a Shinto Shrine in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Aso is one of the oldest shrines in Japan. This shrine hold...
Culture Aso Fire Festival 2025 Mandy Bartok The slopes of Mt Aso are alight with flames during the annual March fire festival.
Culture Kyushu's Aso Shrine Mandy Bartok Aso Shrine - boasting one of the largest gates at a shrine anywhere in Japan - is an oft-overlooked stop in Aso town in Kuma...
Culture Naked X Aso Night Museum 2021 Kim On Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from September 24th until October 24th, Kumamoto's Aso Volcano Museum will be the site of ...
8 Culture Dekopon Country in Aso Kumamoto Bonson Lam In the plain country towards Mount Aso, there are orchards filled with the fragrance of Dekopon, one that is perfectly captur...
6 Culture Hifuri Shinji at Aso Shrine Mandy Bartok Blazing torches light up the night at the annual Fire Swinging Festival near Kumamoto's volcanic Mt Aso
12 Culture Kokuzo Shrine Ekaterina Bespyatova Kokuzo shrine is featured in the Engishiki, a thousand-year-old book from the Heian period. It's one of the oldest shrines in...
Culture Shimomiya Shrine Ekaterina Bespyatova Shimomiya Shrine in Aso might seem small and unremarkable, but it's home to a unique Shinto ritual that is classified as Impo...
Culture Kitakinokura Yotsumiya Shrine Bonson Lam The shrine is located in Mifune, a land of rice fields, wheat and other crops, framed by high mountains and the odd grain sil...
7 Culture Cycling in Kinokura Bonson Lam Who would have thought that Kumamoto is the adventure capital of Kyushu? Here you can go snowboarding and earlier in the same...
