Oita

From Kuma-i

The city has been divided into 8 different districts and Beppu and Yufuin are most famous place in Oita.

See

• Takasaki-yama is 2,000 wild Japanese monkeys inhabit Takasaki-yama Mountain, which is 628 meters above sea level and located at the western tip of Oita City. They appear everyday at a gathering location in three groups, A, B and C. The best attraction to Takasaki-yama is when it is time for one group of monkeys to exchange the location with another group. The monkeys try to avoid conflict between the groups, so the group with the most influence arrives at the gathering location first, appearing in a group of several hundred, then departing together in the same group. This grand sight is something which could never possibly be observed at any zoo.
• African Safari is animal world, groups of wild animals inhabit its five sections. You can enjoy an exciting event-filled 60 minutes on the Jungle Bus ride, feeding the lions, tigers, elephants and giraffes who come close to you.
• Beppu Jigoku Meguri it means hot water, mud and steam which come forth from deep beneath the earth. Not only is there tornado hell, but blood lake hell, gold dragon hell, white pond hell, demon mountain hell, fire-furnace hell, mountain hell, ocean hell and monk hell as well. Combined, each type portrays a different picture of hell through the raging hot mud, colorful red and blue hot water, kanketsu-sen which violently bursts forth, and more, creating a series of astonishment and horror, the effect of which touches your soul!
• Umitamago This aquarium is located in Oita and there are many interesting spots here; the spot in the shape of a submarine or you can touch starfish or sea cucumber, an aquarium looked like assimilating with the sea. above all, my favorite spot is the big aquarium! You may feel as if you were under the sea.

Spa

• Beppu Spa is located in the center of Beppu City. Rows of hotels and inns, small and large, stand side by side along Ekimae-dori, Nagarekawa-dori and Route 10, about a half of all the hotels and inns are found in this area. Although the numerous restaurants, pubs, and souvenir shops create an evening entertainment spot which attracts many outside visitors, the many public baths which the citizens of the area love to attend transform it into a different place altogether. Not to be excluded is the Takegawara Spa. This particular spa, built with an air of Karahafu-style construction, is very popular to tourists. Here you can take a Suna-yu, or sand bath.
• Yufuin Spa is located in the Yufuin Basin spreading out at the foot of Mt.Yufu-dake, is blessed with abundant hot water, and numerous hotels, inns and pensions, each elaborately constructed. Shitan-yu is famous as a public bath-house located near Lake Kinrin-ko. The stone paved hill at Yunohira Spa is very artistic, and because it is still remembered for its healing properties, many people make the drive to this public bath-house on the weekends. Tsukahara Spa can be found halfway up Mt.Garan-dake, part of the Tsurumi-dake Mountain System. This hot-spring has a long history of healing properties, especially effective for skin diseases and many visitors come from outside of the prefecture.
• Sujiyu Spa is located at a high elevation, 1,000 meters above sea level, Sujiyu was named due to its healing properties that are effective for sicknesses effecting the tendons, or "suji" in Japanese. The record remains that in 1684, the first year of Jokyo, a magistrate of Hita ordered the hot spring businesses that had healing properties to pay a tax of 20 mon a year, referred to as the "Onsen Myogakin" tax. Such record would show that visitors were being charged for using the hot springs even back then. A public spa long time famous for its Utase-yu (similar to a miniature waterfall massage using hot water) is the central location for the inns and hotels that have built up around the area. Some of the inns allow the visitors to cook their own meals. It's used as a base for climbing Kuju Mountain Ranges, and there is "Kuju Forest Park Skiing Ground "nearby.

Events

• Ohina maturi Hina dolls that have been preserved in former residences of the wealthy merchants of Tenryo Hita are displayed at the head residence of the Kusano Clan, Ohkura Clan, Gobaru Clan as well as the Hirose Material Hall. These Imperial Court Dolls and Hina Dolls from the Edo through to Meiji Eras are worth coming to see.
• Yutate Kagura is one of the Buzen Kagura. A Buddhist Yutate ceremony is held and Hiwatari, walking over a fire, is performed. Hiwatari is supposedly good to protect against burns and for perfect state of health. Yutate Kagura has been selected by the prefecture as an immaterial folk cultural asset. (See performances unique to the locals Yutate Kagura)
• Oita Tanabata Matsuri is considered the biggest festival in Western Japan. The festival is a beauty contest of gorgeous and brilliant decorations each of which are original and full of imagination. The many events include Chikirin-bayashi (music and dancing), as well as a parade of sacred palanquins carried by the citizens, Funai-patchin, music and dancing.
• Kuju Koori no Saiten is a fantasy world of ice and snow, very rare in Kyushu. The event can only be held on the Handa-kogen Heights where images and statues made of ice and snow, trees with ice-covered foliage are created, and you can play with the snow. There is a timed race on a sled made from ice as well as a bazaar for the family to enjoy.

• Kamitsue Fishing Park

You can do fishing in Kamitsue Fishing Park. You don't need your fishing tools there because you can lend them there. So don't worry about them. Then The fishing park is in mountain. So you can fish in nature. If you want fresh air, I recommend you go there. If you go there, find "Kokudou 387(rote 387). And go straight on to Kikuchi in it. Then you will be able to find " Kamitsue Villedge" And you can find Fishing Park in about 1km from there. http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~h2468/