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Leisure / Outdoors

Hama Strawberry Farm

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Kitsuki-shi Morie 1165-2

This tourist farm, a 15-minute drive from the Kitsuki Interchange on the Oita Airport Road, is located inside the seaside Sumiyoshihama Resort Park. Here visitors can enjoy picking delicious strawberries in a resort-style atmosphere. Customers can pick and eat all the strawberries they like for 40 minutes. The farm's tender, juicy Saga Honoka, Beni Hoppe, Toyonoka, and Moikko strawberries grow rapidly in Sumiyoshihama's mild climate. The farm also offers take-home only berry picking. Strawberry picking is offered on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays from January 1 to the end of May. The farm is spaciously laid out and the pathways between strawberry rows are wide, ensuring those with baby strollers and wheelchair users can also easily enjoy strawberry picking.
Nada Beach

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Kitsuki-shi Nada

This swimming beach, a 12-minute drive from the Aki Interchange on the Oita Airport Road, is situated along the Nada Coast, a two-kilometer long stretch of scenic sandy beach extending north and south which faces the Iyo Sea. Combined with Karishuku Beach south on the coastline, the area is also collectively known as Nada Karishuku Beach. Beautiful, ancient black pines stand along the coast, and it has been selected for inclusion in the Top 100 White Sand Beaches and Green Pine Groves of Japan list and the 100 Most Comfortable Beaches list. In most years, the beach is open from mid-July to mid-August, and facilities include shops and shower rooms. The Hachiman Nadagu shrine, which records state was founded in 729, stands in the almost exact center of the coast.
Sasaki Farm

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Kusu-gun Kokonoemachi Matsugi 3501-2

At this tourist farm, a 15-minute drive from the Kokonoe Interchange as well as the Kusu Interchange on the Oita Expressway, visitors can have fun picking Japanese pears in a field with a wonderful view of the Kusu Basin. The dedicated Japanese pear farm has been in operation for over 60 years. Visitors can pick Hosui, Akizuki, Niitaka, and other varieties which grow large and sweet thanks to the temperature differences created by the farm's high altitude (450 meters above sea level) and underground spring water from Mt. Daiso. Japanese pear picking is offered when the fruit is in season from late August to mid-October. The farm also offers apple picking from late October. Famous sightseeing destinations such as Ryumon Falls, the Kokonoe Yume Suspension Bridge, and Yaba Gorge are located nearby.
Rikuro Okamoto Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Kusu-gun Kokonoemachi Yutsubo Se no Hon 628-15

"This art museum, a 40-minute drive from the Kokonoe Interchange on the Oita Expressway, displays the works of Rikuro Okamoto, a Japanese artist who continues to be active in New York. Located in Coco Village, a highland resort which overlooks the five peaks of Mt. Aso and the Kuju Mountain Range, exhibits include sculptures such as the massive ""Moving Rock;"" and paintings such as the artist's ""Home Towners"" series which depicts Kokonoe and Aso. The museum has a novel design and was planned in collaboration with architect Kenji Murata."
Sato Blueberry Farm

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Kusu-gun Kusumachi Hoashi 898-17

At this reservation-only tourist farm, a five-minute drive from the Kusu Interchange on the Oita Expressway, you can pick blueberries. Taking safety and health as its motto, the farm grows blueberries using organic fertilizer and natural, manual, non-chemical pest repellent methods such as insect nets. Blueberry picking season is from mid-June to late August. The farm also sells lightly sweet blueberry jam made by hand using the blueberries harvested on the farm without the use of preservatives, colorings, or other additives.
Motosaru Takayama Beach

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Saiki Kamae Takenouragochi

This swimming beach, a 10-minute drive from the Kamae Interchange on the Higashikyushu Expressway, consists of a symmetrical stretch of coastline where a sandy beach and pebble beach meet. The Motosaru half, selected for inclusion in the Japan's 100 Best Beaches list, is a one-kilometer-long, 40-meter-wide, gently sloping sandy beach which boasts the cleanest ocean water in the prefecture. The adjoining Takayama half is a pebble beach whose bank blossoms with white spider lily flowers from June to early autumn, and red hibiscus flowers from July to November. The beach is replete with a full array of facilities, including parking, showers, and changing rooms.
Hatouzu Beach

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Saiki Kamae Hatozura

This swimming beach, a three-minute drive from the Kamae-Hatozu Interchange on the Higashikyushu Expressway, is located on the border between Oita Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture, and is the southernmost beach in Oita Prefecture. A sprawling stretch of beautiful, sandy beach and calm, shallow ocean, even small children can have fun swimming in safety here. The beach's white sands and pine trees also create a beautiful contrast, and it has been selected for inclusion in the Top 100 White Sand Beaches and Green Pine Groves of Japan list. Swimming season is from mid-July to the end of August. In addition to toilets and showers, there are camping sites which are free to use in the pine grove, and visitors can also auto camp here.
Zeai Beach

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Saiki Kamiura Tsu Iura

This swimming beach, a 25-minute drive from the Kusumi Interchange on the Higashikyushu Expressway, is located in Zeai Park, a nature park consisting of sand beach as well as bungalows and an observatory. A sprawling stretch of white sands and clear ocean, the beach was selected for inclusion in the 88 Best Swimming Beaches in Japan list in 2001, and the 100 Most Comfortable Beaches in Japan list in 2006. The beach's tide pool, where you can see sea creatures by the shore, is also popular. There are walking paths in the area and the beach is also replete with changing rooms, toilets, and showers.
Art Space and Cafe Okura Shimizuya

4.0

2 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Taketa-shi

"This gallery and cafe, a five-minute walk from JR Bungo-Taketa Station, operates out of a remodeled public bathhouse which was in use up to 1978. Tubs, faucets, and other bathhouse accoutrements have been left as-is in the first floor dining space, which is still divided into ""men's"" and ""women's"" ""bathing"" areas. Men and women, however, are free to eat and sit down in either area. The cafe's seasonal small dish set meal is particularly popular and comes with homemade udon noodles and various small side dishes made with fresh vegetables. A greengrocer operates right next door, and accordingly the cafe's fresh vegetable juices are also recommended. The second floor is used as a gallery."

“うどん”や“ちゃんぽん”のお店。昔、銭湯だった建物を利用してギャラリーカフェに。湯船や蛇口、鏡など、当時のままの姿が味わい深い空間。
Nakajima Park Meisui River Pool

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Taketa-shi Nyuta Nakajimakoen

This pool facility, located in Nakajima Park a 15-minute drive from Bungo-Taketa Station, is situated along and makes use of the Ogata River. The facility also makes use of water from Kawauda Spring located just across Prefectural Route 8, making it very cool and pleasant even on the hottest days. The facility opens in summer each year and can be used free of charge. It is replete with a pool with a slide and a toddler pool. In addition, there are changing rooms on the river's sandbar. The facility bustles with families with children and other visitors during the season.
Yabakei Aqua Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Nakatsu-shi Yabakei Machi Yamautsuri 2704

This water ground is a 30-minute drive from Nakatsu Station and the Kusu Interchange. The water-skiing ground can be reached by going east over the Shiromizu Bridge and following the road a short distance; it will be visible on the left-hand side. Making use of the calm waters of Yabakei Dam's Yabakei Lake, even beginners can easily enjoy water skiing here. In addition, this is the first facility in the country to be opened as a publically managed water-skiing ground. With an advance reservation, you can also enjoy wakeboarding, banana boat rides, and sightseeing; you can even be taught by an instructor. Competitions are also held here.
Yuasa Farm

Travel / Tourism

Oita Hita-shi Amagasemachi Itsuma 1230-3

This fruit farm, surrounded by fields, grows strawberries, Japanese pears, and Hitomebore and Hinohikari rice. Also operating as a tourist farm, from late February through May, visitors can enjoy strawberry picking, and, from mid-August through November, Japanese pear picking. The farm's strawberries, in particular are grown in specially chosen soil with electrolyzed water and with almost no chemical fertilizers, and when in season visitors can enjoy 30-minute, all-you-can-eat strawberry picking. Large groups require an advance reservation. The farm also offers a plan in which you can take strawberries home with you, as well as a home delivery service.
Ogawa Farm

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Bungotakada-shi Kodawara 557-1

This tourist farm is surrounded by the Katsura River to the east, west, and north. The farm grows strawberries using raised platforms in plastic greenhouses on its 50-hectare grounds. Making maximum use of its naturally lush location at the foot of a mountain, the farm uses tree scraps from the area for fuel and humus. Visitors can enjoy picking Beni Hoppe and three other varieties of strawberries generally from late March to early May. For 40 minutes, customers can pick and eat as many strawberries as they like. In addition to families with children, the farm is a great destination for couples. In December, the farm also sells strawberries packaged to give as gifts.
CAFE LA RUCHE GALLERY & SHOP

4.0

90 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Yufu-shi Yufuincho Kawakami Take Hon 1592-1

A cafe and bakery facing Lake Kinrin, seen as a symbol of Yufuin. In the terrace seating area, you can enjoy fresh-baked bread while taking in a view of Lake Kinrin's beautiful scenery. The signature croissants, made with natural yeast, have a faint, buttery aroma; crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside, these exquisite delicacies have an irresistible texture. The second floor is a gallery and shop space and is also used to hold a variety of seasonal events.

This is definitely THE place to have coffee in Yufuin. Very nicely decorated with a beautiful ceramic gallery attached and overlooking a lovely pond/lake. Excellent service, and good coffee.. Like...
Yufuin Retro Motor Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Yufu-shi Yufuincho Kawakami

This automotive museum is located in Yufu City, Oita Prefecture. Inside a retro building, the museum preserves and displays vehicles from Japan, the United States, and Europe made between the beginning of the 20th century and the 1970s. The Showa Retro Corner area is particularly popular with older museum goers and contains vehicles of the same make and model as ones which famously appeared in Showa period (1926-1989) movies and television shows. The museum's shop displays over 1,000 rare miniature cars and sells Tomica and tin plate toys.
Art Plaza

4.0

15 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Oita-shi Niagemachi 3-31

大分出身の磯崎新作品が集まっています。一般ギャラリーもあります。磯崎新に関心がある人は言うに及ばず，写真好きな人にオススメできるところです。
Yufuin Yume Art Museum

4.5

13 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Yufu-shi Yufuincho Kawakami 1479-1

金鱗湖周辺を散策中、思いがけず「山下清展」に遭遇し、入ってみたところその展示の充実ぶりに驚きました。山下清といえば、花火の貼り絵くらいしか見たことがなかったため、初期の作品、特に画紙の乏しかった時代に菓子箱のふたやその他あらゆるものに描かれた絵を見るにつけ、この人の貪欲なまでの創作意欲が伺え、胸が熱くなりました。また、手紙や当時の新聞記事など作品以外にも興味深いものが数多く展示されています。ショッ...
Sorano Park

3.5

7 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Pref. Saikishi Yonouduiroriura

ただでさえ眺望に優れたこの空の公園に、芝桜がビッシリと咲き乱れ、素敵な空間になっていました。2019年は、桜のソメイヨシノとほぼ同時期に満開を迎えていました。。
Oita Prefectural no Mori

4.0

10 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Oita-shi Megusuno 2007-1

県民の森の中の森林セラピーコースでは、5月上旬から下旬まで野いちご狩りが楽しめます。廻栖野の県民の森管理事務所から展示館の間のコースでは舗装されたサイクリングコースの道沿いのところどころで赤い宝石を発見！30分くらいの散策で両手であふれるほどの野いちごが見つかりました。木漏れ日のウォーキングコースを鳥たちの声を聞きながら子どもと一緒に宝さがし気分で楽しめます。プチプチした食感・甘酸っぱい味はお...
Beppushi Art Museum

3.5

11 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Oita Beppushi-shi Beppu Noguchihara 3030-16

旧大分県施設を簡易改装してオープンした別府市美術館。展示スペースが会議室にパテーションを取り付けただけという、残念なもの。改装予算がなく、暫定的なものだと思うけれど、絵画や美術品がかわいそうな気がする。まあ、逆に考えると市民の作品を展示したりするには、敷居が高くなくてよいのかな？

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Oita Areas

A trip to Oita is tantamount to a long soak in the Beppu baths. The mountainous, coastal prefecture of Oita is renowned for having more onsen than any other prefecture in Japan, most of which lie in the city of Beppu on the west coast of Kyushu, recognizable by its pungent sulphuric aroma and the clouds of steam that puff up across the hillside. Away from the Beppu hot springs await mountains, waterfalls, and temples, so don’t hesitate to explore Oita a little further.