Obi castle town — Otemon (飫肥城下町 大手門) 飫肥城下町
Castle town of the Itō clan for 280 years: since 1977 the first protected district in Kyushu.
The town lies in the municipality of Nichinan, inland, a short distance from the Nichinan coast. Besides the Otemon, the complex includes the Yoshōkan residence, the former domain school Shintokudō, the Matsuo-no-Maru Garden, the castle's history museum and the museum dedicated to the diplomat Komura Jutarō, who was born in Obi and was a leading figure in Japanese diplomacy in the early twentieth century. The merchants' street (商人町通り) still keeps the shops that served the castle town. The castle itself, on the hill behind the Otemon, survives today as an archaeological site inside the park.
Miyazaki
飫肥待合所, Obi
