The waterwheel works are the mechanism puppet plays that perform the power of a waterwheel.
It is a precious folk entertainment performed here only in Japan.
Suishakarakuri is held at Toyotama Himejinja Shrine on July 9 and 10 every year .
It is worth seeing.
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
Peace Museum for Kamikaze Pilots
-Historic Sites
Frankly, it is difficult to introduce the facility.Toward the end of World War Two, a kind of suicide attack that planes...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
Hotarukan or Tomita Dining Hall
-Historic Sites -Food
It was a small dining hall next to the flying ground of the Special Attack Unit in World War II.It was a dining hall for...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
-Historic Sites
The area of samurai residences with the hedges and stone walls of the Edo period remains unchanged.The characteristic is...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
-Festivals
Seven fan-shaped Neputa with heroic pictures of samurai of 5 meters highand 4 meters in combat painted on their surfaces...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
-Specific Nature
Chiran is famous as a production area of Japanese tea, and there are a few hills on which tea plantation,the scenery of ...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
-Sea View
Bandokorobana Nature Park is a pool-formed shore and a beauty spot on the reef zonewhere Mt.Kaimondake is seen over the ...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
-Sea View
Sebira Park is located on the hill along the coastlineand is a superb view spot where tourists can see the most beautifu...
KYUSHU [ Chiran ]
-Shrines
Though a small shrine, it is said that a wish comes true if the prayer can pray without dropping the cover of the pot.It...