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- Amano Iwato Shrine (天岩戸神社) Every 10–15 minutes a free guided tour takes you to see the cave where Amaterasu hid.
- Aoshima (青島) 4,300 palms up to 300 years old: the subtropical colony has been a natural monument since 1921.
- Arabaki Shrine (荒立神社) — Takachiho You strike a board seven times for a wish: patron of couples and of sacred dance.
- Cape Toi (都井岬) Horses roaming free since the eighteenth century graze around a 1929 lighthouse, the only one in Kyushu you can go up.
- Ebino Plateau (えびの高原) The name comes from the shrimp colour of the autumn susuki grass on Karakunidake.
- Gamadase Market (がまだせ市場) Since 2010, ‘the hardest market to find in Japan’, in the heart of Takachiho.
- Kumano Narutaki Shrine (熊野鳴滝神社) Founded in 1245: more than 200 stone steps up to the shrine, through the woods.
- Kunimigaoka Viewpoint (国見ヶ丘展望台) At 513 m, between late September and early December, the sea of clouds covers the valley at dawn.
- Michi-no-Eki Takachiho (道の駅 高千穂) Since 2003, statues of Amenouzume and Tajikarao, dancers from the myth, have welcomed visitors.
- Miyakonojo bow — Yokoyama Reimei workshop In Miyakonojo a single master works each bamboo bow through more than 200 stages, almost all by hand, in the city that in 1994 received…
- Miyazaki Phoenix Zoo (宮崎市フェニックス自然動物園) You can ride an Asian elephant for 500 yen, compared with thousands in Kanto.
- Miyazaki Shrine (宮崎神宮) Rite on 26 October, then the ‘Jinmu-sama’ procession: the biggest festival in the prefecture.
- Namikiri Shrine In the Namikiri cave, legend has it that Kōbō Daishi, returning from Tang China, parted the stormy waves to protect the ships, an episode…
- Ninjō Yokochō — Nishitachi (人情横丁・ニシタチ) About 1,200 venues in a few streets: it is the largest nightlife district in the prefecture.
- Nobeoka Ayu-yana (水郷延岡 鮎やな) A bamboo weir over 100 m wide on the Gokase: traditional fishing for over 300 years.
- Obi castle town — Otemon (飫肥城下町 大手門) Castle town of the Itō clan for 280 years: since 1977 the first protected district in Kyushu.
- Onokoro Pond and the watermill (おのころ池) On the Takachiho Gorge path, just before Mihashi Bridge, going down towards Manai Falls. In the middle is the islet of Onokoro, which…
- Phoenix Seagaia Resort (フェニックス・シーガイア・リゾート) Opened in 1994 as Hotel Ocean 45: 154 metres and 43 floors, the tallest hotel in Kyūshū.
- Saitobaru Burial Mounds (西都原古墳群) 317 mounds recorded on a 2.6×4.2 km plateau: Special Historic Site since 1952.
- Sekinoo Falls (関之尾滝) Upstream, 600 m of potholes: a Natural Monument since 1928, among the most extensive in the world.
- Takachiho Freshwater Fish Aquarium In the Takachiho gorge, the municipal aquarium displays, alongside the sturgeon, the spring tanago (スイゲンタナゴ), a fish designated a national…
- Takachiho Gorge — Manai Falls (高千穂峡・真名井の滝) A hire boat (4,100 yen, 30 minutes) passes beneath the 17 metres of Manai Falls.
- Takachiho Shrine (高千穂神社) Every evening, 365 days a year, four of the 33 dances of the local kagura are performed.
- Udo Shrine (鵜戸神宮) In the sea cave you throw a clay ball onto the rock, for luck.
- Umagase — Hyūga-misaki (日向岬・馬ヶ背) Columnar cliffs 70 m high: since 2022 a glass platform has looked down on them from above.