NIPPON Kichi - 日本吉

2006/12/19

五家荘 Gokanosho Gokanosho

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Gokanosho is the name for the area consists of five former villages: Nitao village, Momigi village, Kureko village, Shiibaru village, and Hagi village. These villages are known as Heike refugee legend. This area is known as the last unexplored parts of Kyushu, where remains abundant nature with tsuribashi (hanging bridges) and waterfalls. There are 5 tsuribashis: the Umenoki Todoro Park Tsuribashi, the Momiki no Tsuribashi, the Kureko no Tsuribashi, the Sendantodoro Tsuribashi, and Shiraiwato Park Tsuribashi. Sendantodoro no Taki (the Sendantodoro Waterfall) is a large waterfall with a height of 70 meters, which was selected as one of Japan’s 100 Fine Waterfalls in 1990. One of the hanging bridges, the Momigi no Tsuribashi actually consists of the two bridges. The larger one, “Ayatori-bashi (the cat’s cradle bridge),” which was reconstructed in 1989, has the unique structure in which the floor boards themselves are directly suspended. The other hanging bridge “Shakunage-bashi (the alpine rose bridge)”was later built 30 meters downstream from this bridge. Seen from the nearby observatory, the two large and small bridges across the ravine are especially beautiful in the season of autumn leaves.

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Izumi-machi, Yatushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture
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Gokanosho




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