Ten Minutes of Fireworks at Kantan Port Park
A short dedication fireworks display over Nishi-Oita port, part of a shrine festival that is nearly four hundred years old.
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Karatsu Castle and the Pine Forest by the Sea
A white castle on the water in Saga, and a wall of pine trees planted 400 years ago to hold back the wind.
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A Quiet Day in Nagasaki
A harbour city with a long foreign history, a painful memory, and one of the best night views in Japan.
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Kumamoto Castle, Standing Again
One of Japan's great castles, badly damaged by an earthquake in 2016 and slowly being rebuilt stone by stone.
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Plum Trees and Old Prayers at Dazaifu
A shrine near Fukuoka where students come to pray before exams, and 6,000 plum trees flower in early spring.
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