Kikuchi Valley

Kikuchi Valley

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JR Kumamoto Station → Kumamoto Dentetsu Bus bound for Kikuchi Onsen, or Kikuchi Plaza, 1 hour 10 minutes, terminates off, 30 minutes drive, and Kikuchi valley ride; or 1 hour 30 minutes drive
30km 50 minutes from Kyushu-do Ueki IC via National Route 3, Prefectural Road 53, National Road 387, Prefectural Road 45
425 vehicles/ordinary car 300 yen, microbus 1000 yen, large bus 2000 yen, two-wheeler 200 yen

Business Hours

8:30 to 17:00 (During the March-November paving period, you can enter outside hours but no attendant)

Price

Maintenance management cooperation money High school student or more 300 yen

Spot Category

River, waterfall, spring water, valley, animal habitat, plant fabric

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Seiryu-so, an inn in the grove

Day-trip bathing is possible at Seiryu-so, an inn in Kikuchi Onsen, which stands on the banks of Seiryu-Sakogawa. The smooth and plentiful Ryosen can be enjoyed at the "Hotaru no Uto", an open-air bath that can be placed while looking down at the clear stream, and the "Uto no Kura", a 12-building private family bath, each with a different atmosphere and well received.

Public Bathhouse Jonoi Onsen

A hot spring facility that is also used as a public bathhouse, attached to the ryokan Jōnoi located in Kikuchi Onsen. Skin-friendly alkaline simple hot springs fill the bathtub. A private bath and a family bath are also available. There is no installation of soap, shampoo, etc. in the public baths, so it is better to bring my amenities (available for sale).

Kikuchi Grand Hotel

Day bathing is possible at the Kikuchi Grand Hotel, which is located in Kikuchi Onsen. It can be bathed in a single-sex large-bath or open-air bath that celebrates hot springs at the source. The barrel bath using the sake barrels used in the Taisho era is also a specialty. Since it may not be available during congestion, please contact us in advance. Accommodation Weekdays from 11,000 yen.

Seongshan Park

A park also known as "Martyrdom Park", on a small hill west of the city of Amakusa. The "Martyrdom Senninzuka", which is dedicated to the war dead of the Shimabara and Amakusa Isles that occurred in the early Edo period of Kanei 14 (1637), there are the "Amakusa Kirishitan Museum", which displays the weapons used in the Shimabara-Amakusa Issei, and the flag of the National Designated Important Cultural Property, the Amagusa Shiro camp. During the cherry blossom period, it is crowded with many flower visitors.

Meitoku Temple

The first Zen temple to be built in Amakusa for the purpose of Christian prohibitions after the Amakusa Rebellion, at the order of the Edo Sanyo Shōgunikō. A small cross is carved on the stone steps, and the idea that you can't enter unless you step on it makes you feel the severity of pressure. The Hejin Jizo standing at the entrance of the stone steps is deeply carved and literally has a heteronjin face.

Karakuri Clock

A Karakuri clock made in the image of Hitoyoshi Castle Tenshōkaku, located in front of Hitoyoshi Station. It operates every hour for about 3 minutes between 9 and 18 o'clock (from 11 to February to 17 o'clock). In the fun atmosphere of Hitoyoshi's folk music and Usu taiko dance, the story is a humorous story in which Sagara's palace pretends to be a Shoya-don, and comes to a castle town to enjoy Hitoyoshi Onsen and Kuma shochu.

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