Tamachi Sugawara Tenmangu in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto Prefecture, is a small Shinto shrine with the main hall measuring only about two meters in width. But the building, located about five minutes by car ...

There are 24 tunnels on the expressway between Kumamoto and Hitoyoshi, 23 more than my claustrophobic mother is comfortable with. By the time we pull off at the small city in southern Kumamoto ...

According to its operator JR Kyūshū, SL Hitoyoshi is a class-8620 locomotive, completed on November 18, 1922. After its initial deployment to the Urakami depot in Nagasaki Prefecture, it operated in ...

HITOYOSHI, Kumamoto Prefecture--Experts are still at a loss why a rectangular bathing area existed in a basement, which was discovered within the premises of the ruins of Hitoyoshi Castle here a ...

If you can handle your alcohol and are planning an excursion down to Kyushu this winter, you should strongly consider adding an extra day to your itinerary to explore Hitoyoshi in Kumamoto prefecture.

Bereaved family members and government officials attended a memorial in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Sunday, just under five years since torrential rain left 67 people dead and two people ...