Top 10 Sights & Landmarks in Kumamoto, Kyushu-Okinawa

April 1, 2022 Misti Hsu

Proud Kumamoto Castle is considered one of the most important of its kind. Visitors will be awed as they explore its stone curves, array of turrets, and displays of armor, weapons, and maps. Suizenji Jojuen Garden is downright cinematic, a playground of slopes and dips and trees, in a million shades of green. Cherry blossom season is a lovely time to visit.
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1. Kumamoto Castle

1-1 Hommaru, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-0002 Kumamoto Prefecture +81 96-352-5900 http://kumamoto-guide.jp/kumamoto-castle/
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4.5 based on 2,704 reviews

Kumamoto Castle

Reviewed By dlnun - Nebraska, United States

We spent an afternoon with an English guide from the Kumamoto SGG Club—-Mieko Okada who was our personal guide at the Kumamoto Castle & to the Suizenji Jojuen Gardens. If you go to Kumamoto these two sights should be at the top of your list of things to see & places to go. Hopefully in the next few months more of the reconstruction will allow for an actual tour of the castle, but the grounds, walls, and views were amazing none the less.

2. Second Sight

13-10 Hanabatacho, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-0806 Kumamoto Prefecture +81 96-322-3100 http://www.s-sight.com/pc/
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4.5 based on 5 reviews

Second Sight

A landmark building in central area in Kumamoto-city. built in 1998. planned by Eiji Yoh. built by Koki Hirano. winning JCD design award '99. Kumamoto artpolis award 2000.

3. Former Hosokawa Mansion

3-1 Furukyomachi, Kumamoto 860-0007 Kumamoto Prefecture +81 96-352-6522 http://kumamoto-guide.jp/spots/detail/81
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4.0 based on 159 reviews

Former Hosokawa Mansion

4. Soseki Natsume Uchitsuboi Old House

4-22 Uchitsuboi-machi, Kumamoto 860-0077 Kumamoto Prefecture +81 96-325-9127 http://kumamoto-guide.jp/spots/detail/79
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4.0 based on 51 reviews

Soseki Natsume Uchitsuboi Old House

5. Lafcadio Hearn House

2-6 Anseimachi, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 860-0801 Kumamoto Prefecture +81 96-354-7842 http://kumamoto-guide.jp/spots/detail/62
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4.0 based on 75 reviews

Lafcadio Hearn House

6. Reigando

589 Matsuocho Hirayama, Kumamoto 861-5282 Kumamoto Prefecture +81 96-329-8854 https://kumamoto-guide.jp/spots/detail/109
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4.0 based on 72 reviews

Reigando

Reviewed By shawnmA406XT

Reigando is an immense walk through Japanese history. It's importance cannot be understated, considering that it is not only where Musashi wrote A Book of Five Rings and The Path of Aloneness, and also where he passed away, but it is near the 14th century Buddhist temple Unganzenji. The entire area is steeped in history. It's beautiful. It's rather remote, tucked away in the Kumamoto countryside. It's not a typical tourist destination. However, the effort put into getting here is well worth it. I recommend trying to arrange visiting here and Musashizuka, Musashi's tomb (in Kumamoto City) on the same trip (I did both on the same day).

7. Honmyoji Temple

4-13-1 Hanazono, Kumamoto 860-0072 Kumamoto Prefecture +81 96-354-1411 http://www.honmyouji.jp/tonsyae.html
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4.0 based on 64 reviews

Honmyoji Temple

8. Shinmachi Furumachi

Shinmachi, Kumamoto 862-8570 Kumamoto Prefecture http://kumamoto-guide.jp/spots/detail/221
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4.0 based on 27 reviews

Shinmachi Furumachi

9. Kato Shrine

2-1 Honmaru, Kumamoto 860-0002 Kumamoto Prefecture +81 96-352-7316 http://www.kato-jinja.or.jp/index.html
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4.0 based on 356 reviews

Kato Shrine

Reviewed By 360arminac - Manila, Philippines

This shrine is quite a walk from the tram station but it's worth a visit for a nearer view of Kumamoto castle.

10. Kengun Shrine

13-1 Kengunhonmachi, Kumamoto 862-0910 Kumamoto Prefecture +81 96-368-2633 http://kumamoto-guide.jp/spots/detail/33
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4.0 based on 65 reviews

Kengun Shrine

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