Recently discovered folding screens show what life was like in a bustling castle town on Tsushima island between Kyushu and the Korean Peninsula during the Edo Period (1603-1867). The pair of six ...
More recently, the castle made headlines for the damage it sustained during the deadly 2016 Kyushu earthquake. At every turn, scars on the stone walls and wooden buildings illustrated the might of ...
A trans-Kyushu road trip, in part along the Yamanami Highway, was the perfect option. The road, known for being among Japan’s most scenic, weaves through the mountainous interior of its third ...