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- ‘進撃の巨人 in HITA’ Museum ANNEX (Sapporo Beer Kyūshū Hita) It is inside the Sapporo Beer Kyūshū Hita plant, at Takase 6979, on the ring road, halfway between the centre of Hita and the Ōyama Dam.…
- African Safari (アフリカンサファリ) Japan's most extensive safari park: 1.15 sq km, 70 species, 1,400 animals.
- Beppu Tower (別府タワー) 100 m tall and dating from 1957, designed by Naitō Tachū, also the architect of Tokyo Tower.
- Chinoike Jigoku — the Blood Pond Hell (血の池地獄) The Fudoki of Bungo (8th cent.) already mentions it as the ‘red spring’.
- Former Bungo-Mori Locomotive Shed (旧豊後森機関庫) Fan-shaped roundhouse, 1934, the only one in Kyūshū: the walls still bear holes from US machine guns.
- Fuki-ji Great Hall (富貴寺大堂) A twelfth-century wooden hall, a rare Heian-period survivor outside Kinki.
- Hachiman Kamado Shrine (八幡竈門神社) — Beppu The legend: a demon built 99 of the 100 steps in one night, and for being one short he was driven out.
- Harmony Land (ハーモニーランド) Opened in 1991, for a decade it had its own currency inside the gates, the ‘DO’.
- Himeshima Island (姫島) In 1984, the first in Japan, it introduced a deposit-return scheme for aluminium cans.
- Hita Station South Plaza (日田駅南広場)
- Hitome Hakkei — the eight views of Yabakei (一目八景) From a single spot you can see eight rock pinnacles, hence the name ‘eight views in one glance’.
- Hyotan Onsen (ひょうたん温泉) The only Japanese onsen with three stars in the Michelin Green Guide, open since 1922.
- Inazumi Underwater Cave (稲積水中鍾乳洞) The submerged passage is over 1,000 m long; the water, 30 m deep in 1976, is now only 7.
- Kamado Jigoku (かまど地獄) — Beppu Opened in 1907, it has six sections of different colours: from mud at 95°C to cobalt blue.
- Kijima Kogen Park (城島高原パーク) ‘Jupiter’, 1992: Japan's first wooden roller coaster, 60 thousand pine boards.
- Kuma Hachiman Shrine (隈八幡宮) — home of the Hita Gion Its floats, up to 10 m tall, have paraded since 1665: since 2016 the rite has been UNESCO heritage.
- Mameda-machi historic district (豆田町) A town under the direct rule of the shogunate: 10.7 hectares protected since 10 December 2004.
- Mount Yufu / Yufudake (由布岳) The ‘Fuji of Bungo’, 1,583 m, three peaks on the rim of an ancient crater.
- Myōban Onsen (明礬温泉) Harvesting yu-no-hana in the straw huts has been intangible heritage since 2006.
- Nioza Rekishi no Michi — the Nioza historic street (二王座歴史の道) The passage cut into the tuff in front of the old Shinkoji is among the 100 Urban Landscapes (1993).
- Onta Pottery Village (小鹿田焼の里) Zero motors: the current crushes the clay, the foot turns the wheel, the kiln is wood-fired.
- Oyama Dam — Statue of Eren, Mikasa and Armin
- Saganoseki Port (佐賀関港) Caught one at a time, on a line: this is how the Seki-aji and Seki-saba fish brands come about.
- Shingeki no Hita Café (進撃の日田カフェ) Moved on 26 April 2025 to the ground floor of a building at Chūō 1-1-16, opposite the Chūō-dōri bus stop and three minutes' walk from Hita…
- Sōfuren Ōyama — Isayama's yakisoba (想夫恋 大山店) The Ōyama branch of the Sōfuren chain, founded in Hita in 1957 and regarded as the inventor of Hita yakisoba: only bean sprouts, spring…
- Suginoi Palace / Hotel Suginoi (杉乃井ホテル・スギノイパレス) The ‘Tanayu’ terraced bath, five pools stepping down over Beppu Bay.
- Suya-no-saka — Kitsuki's sandwich town (杵築城下町・酢屋の坂) Wider at the top, narrower at the bottom: the slope was designed to defend Kitsuki.
- Takasakiyama, the monkey mountain (高崎山自然動物園) 760 wild, free-ranging Japanese macaques in two troops: B (514 animals) and C (246).
- Takegawara Kōji — Japan's oldest arcade (竹瓦小路) Opened on 1 December 1921, it is the oldest covered arcade still standing in Japan.
- Taraibaru Forest Park (田来原美しい森づくり公園) A park created on the spoil disposal area of the Ōyama Dam construction site and opened in April 2016, ten minutes' drive above the dam.…
- Umi Jigoku — the Sea Hell (海地獄) A spring at 98°C all year round: its cobalt colour earns it the name ‘Sea Hell’.
- Umitamago Aquarium (うみたまご) Opened in 1964: the world's first aquarium with a tank recreating an ocean current.
- Usa Shrine (宇佐神宮) It is the head of 44,000 Hachiman shrines; the three honden, from 1859–61, are a National Treasure.
- Usuki Prefectural High School (大分県立臼杵高等学校) Prefectural high school in Usuki.
- Usuki Stone Buddhas (臼杵石仏) The head of the Dainichi Nyorai, detached by centuries of erosion, was put back in place in 1993.
- Yukemuri Yokocho in the Tokiwa department store, Beppu (湯けむり横丁・トキハ別府店) At Toyo-Ken, in the basement, tori-ten was born: the fried chicken that is the symbol of Oita.
- Yunohira Onsen (湯平温泉) The 500 m stone paving was laid in the eighteenth century by Kudō Sōsuke to ward off epidemics.