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Located about 25 minutes from the Kumamoto city area, a sightseeing ranch of about 330,000 square meters where you can learn dairy farming and get in touch with the animals. It houses the world's five largest breeds of dairy cattle: Holstein, Jersey, Gandhi, Ayrshire, and Brown-Swiss. Homemade dairy products made at a milk factory in the park, using blended milk pressed from that dairy cow, can be tasted at restaurants and purchased at the "milk market", a product house. There is also a full day at the ranch, where you can enjoy the excitement of goat and sheep races, experience milk squeezing and feeding, as well as eating experiences such as ice and cheese making using dairy products.

You can taste dairy products made with raw milk directly from Yamada Ranch. There is a restaurant, Makiba, which uses dairy products and seasonal ingredients in the roadside. If you make a reservation, you can experience milking at the ranch (500 yen per person).

Roadside station located along National Route 57 from Kumamoto city to Aso. Nicknamed "Karai Monosato" only for Otsu-cho, which boasts the largest amount of potato (sweet potato) in the prefecture. The station building, which includes a goods museum, a craft hall, and a restaurant, sells specialty products and souvenirs from all parts of Kumamoto Prefecture, as well as direct-to-produce vegetables such as "Ōtsu Karimo", which is certified by the roadside station Otsu. It also performs demonstration sales of Kumamoto's specialty "Karashi Hasune" and "Ikinari Dun". You can enjoy the specialty "Akagyu" at "Akagyu Restaurant Yokayoka", and "Akagyu-donon", which is eaten by mixing hot spring eggs and medicinal flavors such as wasabi and large leaves with rare beef, is recommended. The outdoor store Karai and the specialty store "Karai Moyan" Karai Moyan "is also popular.

The day-trip hot spring facility "ssan no yū" located in the Kikuyo-cho general exchange terminal Sanfuleanai. There is a Japanese-Western large bath and an open-air bath, a sauna, and a walking bath, where men and women are replaced every Wednesday. There is also a family bath in the hall that can be rented out. There are also sports gyms and produce direct sales outlets in Sanfureanai, so I would like to visit them together with the hot springs.

It is one of the largest hot spring leisure facilities in the prefecture with hot springs, indoor pools, training gyms and restaurants in front of a sports park in the city of Koshi. The large bathhouse has a variety of baths such as outdoor baths, saunas, and walking baths.

An experiential theme park where you can learn the history of agriculture. It offers many facilities on the vast grounds, including a rose garden, a naughty square with many playground equipment, and a grand golf course. During the summer holidays, you can play in the shallow water play square.

Roadside station beside the "Tongjun Bridge", famous as the largest stone arch waterway bridge in Japan. In addition to the abundance of organic rice and vegetables raised by the cool climate and the clear stream, there is also a variety of products using the specialty Yabe tea and Yuzu. Soft ice cream using Yabe tea can be taken out and tasted. At the restaurant "Ishibashi", it is reputed that you can enjoy a menu that incorporates seasonal ingredients.

A stone-arched waterway bridge, one of the largest in Japan, formed in Kaei 7 (1854). It is a part of the water for tsumune water on the southern hills of Mount Aso-minami, and has been designated as a national treasure, with a bridge length of about 78m and a bridge height of about 21m. It is well known that water spews out of the water outlet in the center of the stone bridge in an arched shape. For the water release date and the viewing from the bridge (charge), it is necessary to confirm the official website of Tonjun Bridge. There is also the "Tongjun Bridge Miel Terrace", which has a goods building that accepts bridging viewing, and the "Tongjun Bridge Historical Museum", which introduces the structure of the bridge in three-dimensional models and footage.

You can enjoy picking blueberries from the specialty of Santocho. It boasts a spacious blueberry field with 50ha of late life (late July-early September). There is also a house, so you can pick it even in the rain. Soft ice cream made from homemade blueberries is also popular.

Soyo Gorge, where the Gokase River flows from the Kyushu Central Mountains as a water source, is a spot where you can enjoy the majestic canyon beauty. The view from the Nagasaki Hana Observation Deck, which can overlook the U-shaped valley, which is rare in Japan, is amazing, and it is also called the "Grand Canyon of Kyushu". In autumn, maple and zelkova are beautiful, and they are crowded with a large number of people.