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Saito / Koyu

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Roadside Station Tsuno

4.0

36 Reviews

Transportation

Miyazaki Pref. Koyuguntsunochou Kawakita 5129

This roadside station in Tsuno Town, Koyu County, sells locally grown vegetables as well as fresh seafood from the Hyuga-nada Sea. It has become a Tsuno Town sightseeing spot providing tourist information and local specialty products and souvenirs. At the restaurant, visitors can taste a set meal “Shiitake mushroom nanban”, a dish of Miyazaki’s specialty chicken nanban served with thick shiitake mushrooms, as well as “Sanshokudon”, seafood from Hyuga-nada Sea served on rice.

国道１０号下り方面、宮崎県で一番格式の高い「日向国一之宮」に位置付けられた都農神社を超えた所にある道の駅。敷地内にはパンダの遊具も置かれています。シャンシャンではなさそう。株主総会等各種会議がシャンシャンと終了するか不明。
Tsuma Shrine

4.0

22 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyazaki Saito-shi Tsuma 1

"A 10-minute drive or three kilometers from the Saito Interchange on the Higashi-Kyushu Expressway. Dedicated to the princess goddess Konohanasakuya-hime-no-Mikoto, the shrine's name appears in ancient ""Shoku Nihon Koki"" Japanese history text, as well as in the register of shrines in the ancient ""Engishiki"" law book. According to legend, Ninigi-no-Mikoto fell in love with the princess at first site and held a wedding ceremony, thus becoming known as a god of love and marriage, while the princess safely gave birth to triplets and in turn became known as a goddess of safe childbirth and childrearing. During the Koisai Festival held on July 7th, the wedding ceremony is recreated in an unusual ritual which has been conducted continuously for around five hundred years."

天照大神は孫のニニギノミコトを高天原から地上に遣わし（天孫降臨）、乱れた国を治めました。その妻が絶世の美女とされるコノハナサクヤヒメで、二人は日本で初めて結婚式を挙げたとされています。都萬神社にはこの神様が祀られているので、幸せを求める女性から篤く信仰されています。境内には縁結びを求めてハート形の絵馬が奉納されていました。
Tsuno Wine

4.0

23 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyazaki Pref. Koyuguntsunochou Kawakita 14609-20

This winery is located in Tsuno Town, Koyu County. The wine is made from 100 per cent locally grown grapes. The winery offers inspections of the wine making process, wine tasting, and a produce shop. In addition, various events such as a farm produce harvesting experience, live jazz concerts, and barbecue lunches are held.

Other places use paper cups for tastings during the coronavirus era but this winery simply did away with tastings. It made our special trip to the winery a big disappointment. We came planning to buy...
Takanabe Onsen Meirin no Yu

4.5

3 Reviews

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Miyazaki Koyu-gun Takanabecho Uwae 6900

This day-use hot spring bathhouse is located a five-minute drive from JR Takanabe Station. The entire facility incorporates universal design principles and customers can enjoy free-flowing hot spring baths supplied straight from the source spring. The bathhouse' name is derived from the Meirindo, a clan school established by Akizuki Taneshige, the seventh lord of Takanabe Domain. The bathhouse is replete with a rock bath, hinoki cypress bath, and sauna. The bathhouse was built to serve as a center for community exchange where customers could experience history and tradition based on the concepts of the culture and noted people born of Takanabe Town. The bathhouse' vaunted spring is a sodium chloride spring. The bathhouse has gained popularity because these waters are purported to treat such ailments as nerve pain and muscle soreness.

車で行った。山の中で海からは距離あります。綺麗で大きな温泉施設。景色も綺麗で温泉が気持ちよくて癒されました。値段も５００円と安くておすすめです。
Saitobaru Burial Mounds

Travel / Tourism

Miyazaki Pref. Saitoshi Miyake Saitohara 5670

Approximately a ten-minute drive from the Saito Interchange, these burial mounds are scattered around Chigogaike Park. Over 300 burial mounds remain over a very large area 2.6 kilometers from east to west and 4.2 kilometers north to south, and preservation activities are being conducted as a special historic park from its academic value. In the park, besides the burial mounds such as the Oni no Iwaya Kofun that can be seen, there is also the Saitobaru Archaeological Museum of Miyazaki Prefecture. In addition, it is a popular flower spot with cherry blossoms and rape blossoms in the spring, and cosmos in the autumn.
Sun Lupinus

4.0

5 Reviews

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Miyazaki Koyu-gun Shintomicho Minashiro 1859-1

A hot spring bathhouse and health center situated along the Shintomi Bypass. Here customers can enjoy free-flowing baths supplied with water which is praised for its freshness. The bathhouse makes use of a sodium calcium chloride spring (hypertonic neutral high temperature spring) which contains a significant amount of radium and iodine. Radium springs are a rarity even in Kyushu, and the waters of this spring are said to treat such ailments as aging, lifestyle diseases, fatigue, and women's diseases. The bathhouse also has a free footbath and many people enjoying a scenic drive through the area stop by here to take a break. The farmers market inside the bathhouse sells vegetables from Shintomi picked that very morning and brought in by local farmers.

宮崎県児湯郡新富町、国道10号線バイパス沿いにある日帰り温泉施設です。公的施設だと思いますが、ヨード臭や臭素臭のする濃厚な温泉がかけ流しで使用されています。湯の鮮度も良く、浴感もしっかりしていました。
Tsuno-jinja Shrine

Travel / Tourism

Miyazaki Pref. Koyuguntsunochou Kawakita 13294

This is a shrine located in Tsuno Town, Koyu County. The shrine has a very long history, as it was founded six years before of the enthronement of Emperor Jimmu, who was the first emperor of Japan and Onamuchi-no-mikoto is the main deity. The god Daikoku-sama is enshrined here so it is said that the shrine is good for marriage and flourishing posterity, healing illness, and prosperity in business. There are festivals in August and December. A mikoshi (portable shrine) is paraded around in the summer festival in August, and Kagura (Shinto music and dancing) is performed in the winter festival in December.
Nishi no Miyako Agurikan

3.5

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Miyazaki Saito Kanoda 11365-1

This local specialty products center for tourists is located inside the Saito Factory of Kagura Shuzo, a brewing company established in 1954. Here visitors can tour the museum; sample the company's shochu; watch a water and myth-themed movie; and purchase local specialty products. In order to convey to visitors the wonders and brand image of the company's new brewery, the facility shows a movie which tells the legend behind Saito's spring water, an essential ingredient for making the company's shochu, utilizing stunningly beautiful imagery and novel water-based mechanisms. There are also exhibits such as a video projection of water which ripples based on people's movements, and a workshop where you can make your own original shochu. A veritable theme park, you'll be able to enjoy hours of fun here.

東九州自動車道の西都ＩＣを降りて、高屋温泉に向かう途中に位置しています。焼酎メーカーである神楽酒造の新しい蔵に隣接する施設で、観光施設化しています。焼酎工場の見学ができるほか、焼酎の製造工程をパネルで展示したアグリ館では、神楽酒造の焼酎を買い求めることもでき、試飲もＯＫです。もちろん、車を運転する人の試飲はご法度となっています。
Nishimera Onsen, Karikobozu no Yu Yutato

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Miyazaki Pref. Koyugunnishimerason Murasho 260-6

This hot spring facility is located in Nishimera Village, Koyu County. The hot spring water has “sodium hydrogen carbonate” properties, and is known to promote beauty. It is also said to be effective in assisting recovering from frozen shoulders, motor paralysis, and burns. The large public bath consists of “Kawa-no-yu” with an open-air rock bath and “Hinata-no-yu”, an open-air cypress bath, which is changed every Sunday.
Saitobaru Archeological Museum of Miyazaki Prefecture

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyazaki Pref. Saitoshi Miyake Saito Hara west 5670

A museum located in the Saitobaru Tomb Area, a collection of some of Japan’s oldest tombs. Now a designated Special Historic Landmark Park, the area is dotted with over 300 tombs. The museum displays artefacts from the tombs and visitors can learn about the formation of the geography of southern Kyushu and the mysteries of the tombs from a diverse array of materials. The Ancient Life Interactive Center’s hands on exhibits, where visitors can ake a hands-on class about making haniwa and dogu clay figures, is particularly popular. From the third-floor restaurant, you can enjoy a cup of tea while gazing out over the Saitobaru Tomb Area, famed for its seasonal blossoms, particularly its cherries in spring.
Kiyomizudai Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyazaki Pref. Saitoshi Kiyomizu Western City Shimizu

This park, located in Saito City, Miyazaki Prefecture includes a soccer field used by professional and amateur sports teams and a 36-hole park golf course on the extensive grounds. There is also an obstacle course for children and natural grass area where visitors can enjoy grass skiing. The park is widely used as a venue for competitions, as well as a place for local people to interact.
Unagi no irifune

4.5

66 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Miyazaki Pref. Saitoshi Minamikata 3316-3

This is a long-established eel restaurant established in 1894 in Saito City, Miyazaki Prefecture. Guests can enjoy the taste of “kaba-yaki” (eel, dipped and broiled in soy sauce) using carefully selected local eel. The well-grilled odorless taste is characteristic of domestic eel. It is a popular restaurant with queues forming at opening and offers a waiting room as well. Many people visit from afar.

Miyazaki is actually famous for Chicken Nanban so when a local told me that Irifune offers very delicious eel dishes, I was a bit skeptical. However, I wasnt disappointed after my visit. The eel...
Tsuno Farm Cafe

3.5

6 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Miyazaki Koyu-gun Tsunocho Kawakita 14609-20

ファーム見学に来たら、終了後、こちらで食事をするのが定番だと思います。地元の人もいたようです。ファームで開発されたとあるワインにチキン南蛮がよく合う、とツアー中に工場長が何度かおっしゃっていて、それに洗脳されチキン南蛮を食べました。優しい味付けで、油物のギトギトさがなく上品でした。チキン南蛮はハーフもあります。パスタにサンドイッチ、もあり、こちらで栽培された野菜が使われています。天気が良いと、外...
Takanabe Beach

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyazaki Koyu-gun Takanabecho Kaguchiura

This swimming beach has been selected for inclusion in the Ministry of the Environment's Selection of Best 100 Beach list. The beach is shallow and wave-breaking tetrapod has been placed offshore, and the beach is known for its gentle waves. During swimming season, licensed lifeguards are on duty at all times, and visitors appreciate the fact that even small children can play safely here. The beach also adjoins one of the most famous surfing spots in western Japan and bustles year-round with surfers not only from the local area but across the prefecture and country. Lastly, the entire beach is known as a destination where green sea turtles, designated a Natural Monument by the prefecture, lay their eggs.
Miyazaki Agricultural Science Park Lupinus Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyazaki Koyu-gun Takanabecho Mochida 5732

This park is dedicated to the themes of agriculture and nature. Facilities positioned around the park's vast grass lawn including an agricultural science center, flower garden greenhouse, and large playground. Visitors can enjoy a variety of flowers on the grounds throughout the year. In the agricultural science center located near the main entrance, you can learn about the vegetables, meat, flowers, and other agricultural products produced in Miyazaki Prefecture. With an advance reservation, you can also try activities such as making senbei rice crackers, butter, soba noodles, and tofu in the park's Fureai Taikenkan activity center.
Maizuru Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyazaki Koyu-gun Takanabecho Uwae 1345

"This park was built on the site of Takanabe Castle, which was known as Maizuru (""Dancing Crane"") Castle because of the resemblance of the local terrain to a crane taking flight. The castle originally belonged to the Tsuchimochi clan in the mid-Heian period; it was then utilized by the Ito clan as one of the 48 Castles of Ito. The castle was next owned by the Shimazu clan after they became the rulers of Kyushu; and then the Akizuki clan, whose members served as the lords of the castle until the abolition of the domain system in the Meiji period. The park grounds have been planted with some 100 plum trees and 1,000 cherry trees, as well as 2,000 azalea plans, and it is known as one of the top destinations for flower viewing in the town. Serving as a space for rest and relaxation, the park bustles with numerous visitors come to take in the flowers from spring to early summer."
Dogrun&Dogsalon SOL

Leisure / Hobbies

Miyazaki Koyu-gun Takanabecho Minami-takanabe 919

This dog park boasts dazzling green lawn and customers will forget it's located in the middle of a residential area. The park can be identified by its rustic building and paw-shaped sign. The park is divided into an all-breed area and an area for small breed dogs, and, as each is replete with plenty of cool shade trees, customers rave that the park is a comfortable place to be even under the summer sun. The adjoining dog salon offers a variety of services, including shampooing, trimming, treatment packs, and claw trimming.
Oshikawa Shungetsudo Kawanami Main Store

4.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Miyazaki Koyu-gun Kawaminamicho Kawaminami 13675-24

"This Japanese and Western confectionary shop was originally established as a solely Japanese confectionary shop in 1926, the year the ""sugar license"" system was introduced. Dedicated to the concept of expressing the very essence of Miyazaki Prefecture, the place where the owner was born and raised, through confections, the shop continues to make history-leaden, traditional Japanese confections alongside novel new Western confections. The shop's signature product is its no bake cheese cake, which has just the right amount of cheesy flavor and a novel texture like smooth whipped cream, requiring you to eat it with a spoon. Made with an abundance of world-famous Buko cheese from Denmark, it's not unusual for the shop to completely sell out of this cheesecake by mid-morning."

宮崎の旅の途中、生チーズケーキなど全国的にも知られる洋菓子を作る本店に立ち寄りました。国道１０号線から、川南町の中心部に入る古くからのメインストリートであるトロントロン通りにある１９２６年からお菓子を作り続けているお店でした。ホームページでは押川春月堂となっていましたが、お店外観は、洋菓子ブランドのパティスリー...
Kijo Onsenkan Yurara

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Miyazaki Koyu-gun Kijocho Takajo 1403-1

This day-use hot spring bathhouse is located a five-minute drive from the Takanabe Interchange on the Higashikyushu Expressway. Here customers can enjoy soothing hot spring bathing surrounded by the beautiful air of Kijo and encircled by lush greenery. The waters of the bathhouse' simple hot spring (hypotonic mildly alkaline spring) are said to be good for a wide variety of ailments. Containing an abundance of an array of hot spring substances, these waters are non-agitating and gentle on the skin. In addition to an indoor bathing area, the bathhouse is replete with 16 outdoor baths, including a play pond, aesthetic bath, and jacuzzi. The establishment is loved by children and adults for as a safe, relaxing, and clean bathhouse.
Morino-fu Ice

4.0

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Miyazaki Saito Ichimiyake 4134-2 Morita Food Center

This cafe area operates out of a remodeled corner of the Morita Food Center a 15-minute drive from the Saito Interchange on the Higashikyushu Expressway. The establishment serves sweets and lunch foods with a focus on choice ice creams inspired by the area's gentle winds and seasonal moods. The cafe's homemade ice cream is simple and exudes the innate flavors of the ingredients used. It is light and melts perfectly in the mouth, and even people who don't normally like sweets note they find themselves eating every last bite and licking the spoon. The cafe's pastas, curries, and other lunch foods are made with an abundance of seasonal vegetables from specially contracted farms and have a mild, elegant flavor.

西都原古墳公園の入口にあるシックな装いの不思議な空間を持つスイーツ店でした。ケーキやアイスは美味しかったです。店内の小物やオブジェが珍しくてキョロキョロしてしまいました。妻高校の学生さんもよく利用してるみたいですね。

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Miyazaki Areas

An unmissable highlight of Kyushu, Miyazaki prefecture satisfies nature lovers with its dramatic gorges cut out of rugged cliffs, leading into waterfalls and beaches of green-blue water popular among surfers. Takachiho Gorge in the north of the prefecture tells a tale of centuries-old Japanese mythology in a fantastic setting, allowing visitors to explore the waters by boat before heading up to the cave at the Awano Iwato Shrine, where the sun goddess was said to have hidden, plunging the world into darkness.