Culture Yamaga Winter Lantern Festival 2025 Mandy Bartok Yamaga displays illuminated paper umbrellas and and bamboo candles on winter evenings in February.
8 Culture Suizenji Cherry Blossom Festival Bonson Lam The cherry blossom comes but once a year, and in a few days, it vanishes, scattered by the wind. Poets and lovers have gather...
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 ...
6 Culture Katashiwa Inari Shrine Bonson Lam The shrines made be dressed with black banners and the maidens warming the crowds with sake, but do the sparrows and crows kn...
Culture Manda Coal Mine Yui Yamaguchi The winds of modernization came to Arao with the onset of the industrial revolution. Its appetite for fuel culminated with th...
Culture Kumamoto Castle Kumamoto Castle is the third largest castle in Japan and one of its most popular historic sites. Originally built in the earl...
7 Culture Kumamoto Castle in Spring Nicole Bauer We were really lucky, it was a beautiful day. So instead of spending our time inside the castle museum, we took our time to e...
6 Culture Views of Kumamoto Castle Eitetsu Terakado Castle in Kumamoto that is 400 years old built by Kato Kiyomasa. You can see the city and nature from the obesrvatory at the ...
Culture Kumamoto Castle's Micro-Lordship Takako Sakamoto Kumamoto Castle has introduced a new fund raising system called, "Micro Lordship System", and has been raising donations from...
6 Culture Yabusame at Kumamoto Castle Mandy Bartok A yabusame event involving Japanese archers on horseback is held every year on the grounds outside Kumamoto Castle as part of...
